Bargain Hunt star Charles Hanson ‘is charged with assault and coercive behaviour’ as he moves out of £1.5million family home

Bargain Hunt star Charles Hanson has been charged with assault and coercive behaviour following a police probe into domestic abuse allegations.

The auctioneer, 45, who moved out of his £1.5million family home earlier this year, is set to appear in court next month over seven alleged offences, including assault. 

Police said Hanson has now been charged with seven offences, including two of assault causing actual bodily harm, and one of controlling and coercive behaviour.

There are also two counts of assault by beating, The Sun reports.

Back in August, the BBC TV star moved out of his family home after police responded to a ‘domestic incident’ at the property in June. 

Hanson, a regular on popular daytime shows Bargain Hunt, Antiques Road Trip and Flog It!, had lived at the £1.5million property in rural Derbyshire with wife Rebecca Ludlam and their two children since 2014. 

But he is understood to have moved out after local constabulary were called to an unspecified incident at the six-bedroom pile.

Bargain Hunt auctioneer Charles Hanson has been charged following a police probe into domestic abuse allegations 

The auctioneer, 45, who moved out of his £1.5million family home earlier this year, is set to appear in court next month over seven alleged offences, including assault 

Hanson appearing on BBC One’s Bargain Hunt

A source told The Sun: ‘It is not the sort of place you expect police to turn up… It is a tiny village so a few people have been talking. It is all very shocking.’

In a short statement, Derbyshire police  confirmed: ‘The force was called to reports of a domestic incident at an address in Quarndon on June 13.’ 

Hanson and Ludlam originally met through friends in 2008. They married two years later during a traditional service at All Saints Church in Mackworth, in front of 150 close friends and family members. 

Speaking in 2010, the auctioneer revealed he was late for his very first date with Ludlam, a diagnostic radiographer, but was instantly swayed by her natural beauty. 

He told the Derbyshire Telegraph: ‘She is a beautiful, blonde, elegant and lovely lady. I’m used to dealing with beautiful things but Rebecca is the most beautiful treasure of all and I’m very lucky she is my wife.

‘We’re very busy people but we understand each other very well and I think we’ll be very happy together.’ 

They moved into their Derbyshire home nine years ago after purchasing it for a reported £920,000.  

But a woman at the property has since told The Sun on Sunday: ‘I can’t comment. But what I can say is that he’s moved out. He’s not here anymore.’ 

A chartered surveyor, Hanson gained auction house experience at Christie’s before making his first appearance on Bargain Hunt in 2002. 

He set up an ­auctioneering business in Derbyshire in 2005 and launched Hansons London in 2018.