A Bargain Hunt auctioneer has been charged with assault.

Charles Hanson, 45, who regularly appears on the BBC One programme advising teams on how to make a profit from antiques, is due to appear in court next month over the allegations.

Derbyshire Police said he was charged on December 14 with seven offences, including two of assault causing actual bodily harm, one of controlling and coercive behaviour and two counts of assault by beating.

The force said: “The 45-year-old was released on police bail to appear at Southern Derbyshire magistrates’ court on January 10.”

Hanson first appeared on Bargain Hunt in 2002 at the age of 25, making him the youngest expert on the team, and has since appeared regularly on Flog It! and Antiques Road Trip.

Having begun his career in 1999 in the ceramics and glass department at Christie’s, Hanson later formed an auctioneering business in Derbyshire in 2005 and launched Hansons London in 2018.

Hanson met his wife Rebecca Ludlam, 40, a diagnostic radiographer, in 2008 and they married two years later at All Saints Church in Mackworth, in front of 150 close friends and family members.

The Sun reported that Hanson, who is a chartered surveyor, is understood to have moved out of a six-bedroom home in a small Derbyshire village.