"I had too many bedrooms": Bobby George admits number of bedrooms in 'George Hall' was overkill

Darts icon Bobby George has never had trouble getting noticed. Not on stage, and certainly not in everyday life. But even for his efforts, building an 18-bedroom villa was perhaps just a little too much of a good thing. "I overdid it with the bedrooms, to be honest," he now admits himself in conversation with the BBC.

The flamboyant Englishman, who became a crowd favorite in darts in the 1980s and 1990s, designed his dream home George Hall in the village of Ardleigh. The villa was built in the 1990s, complete with three fishing lakes, a private bar and 12 acres of land. George, who calls himself the "King of Bling," was 50 years old at the time and clearly had no shortage of ambition. "I was younger and I didn't have any fear," he said.

George and his wife Marie lived in a mobile house in the garden in the early stages of the construction project, while he slowly but surely finished room after room. "I built a bathroom first so we could use a bathroom, then a bedroom and a kitchen," he says. "I finished them and then I finished room after room after room."

As if it wasn't all eccentric enough, George made headlines again in June with a rather bizarre revelation: he keeps one of his amputated toes in a jar of vodka behind the bar. "I put one in the jar behind my bar just for fun, and I always say 'Do you want a cocktail or a cock-toe?

The English darts legend, who has had to undergo multiple amputations since 1999 due to a hereditary condition, even released his autobiography in June: Still Here: The King of Bling.

Bobby George is still remembered as one of darts' great personalities, with his gold rings, candle candelabra at his walk-on and charismatic charisma. Athletically, he came closest to the world title in 1980 and 1994, but then had to bow to Eric Bristow and John Part in those World Championship finals, respectively.

A lack of restraint initially earned him building plans with 28 rooms, to the dismay of local authorities.

"I made a few mistakes when I done this: I had too many bedrooms from kick-off," George said.

"My poor wife has got to clean them all. I say 'Leave it, it doesn't matter, we don't go in the rooms, who cares? Let the spiders have it'.

"But she doesn't want that to happen... so she's got a lot of work."