Woman dishes behind-the-scenes filth about Antiques Roadshow expertise
An Antiques Roadshow participant revealed the drama that goes on behind the scenes and the warning that producers give to guests on the TV show.
Ellie, known as swamp_ghoul on TikTok, told viewers that when her great stepmother died – she left a painting to her mother.
Ellie says that her mom and sister took the painting to Antiques Roadshow – the American TV show that ‘travels the country in search of America’s hidden treasures’ to get the item appraised.
Upon arriving, her mom and sister were allegedly immediately sent to the VIP area where her mom was given a makeover in preparation for filming.
According to Ellie, the Antiques Roadshow staff told them not to talk to other people about what they had brought – but her sister did anyway.
Ellie, known as swamp_ghoul on TikTok , told viewers that when her great stepmother died – she left a painting to her mother
She discovered that one couple had brought an etching by the Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher – which was allegedly appraised at a ‘very impressive’ $20,000.
Ellie claimed that the couple were ‘snooty’ and that, although their appraisal was nothing to ‘scoff at’ – she was going to scoff at them.
When it came to her family’s turn – she said both she and her mom were convinced that the Antiques Roadshow crew specifically flew the appraiser all the way from New Mexico just for the painting that they brought. Ellie said that apparently the appraiser started calm and collected but then got more frantic and excited as time went on.
Ellie even revealed that the sound guy on set was apparently flirting with her mom.
She also spilled that the Antiques Roadshow crew told them never to tell people where they lived – especially until the item they brought is out of the house.
In her TikTok, she finally gave a spoiler – despite the episode not airing yet – and said the item her mother brought was a Sam Gilliam painting from the 1970s that was valued at a whopping $150,000.
Sam Gilliam was an American painter and sculptor who specialized in abstract art and arts education.
He was born in Mississippi and raised in Kentucky and spent his adult life in Washington, D.C.
Gilliam died in 2022, but he is remember in the art world for his iconic large color stained canvases which he draped and suspended from walls and ceilings during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
DailyMail.com have reached out to Antiques Roadshow for a comment.
Ellie’s mom and sister took the painting to Antiques Roadshow – the American TV show that ‘travels the country in search of America’s hidden treasures’ to get the item appraised
Ellie spilled that the Antiques Roadshow crew told them never to tell people where they lived – especially until the item they brought is out of the house. Pictured here: guests excited to get a valuation for their treasures
Last month, an Antiques Roadshow guest was left in shock after she was told the appraised value of her grandmother-in-law’s iconic 1910s pearl and diamond necklace.
The one-of-a-kind necklace, which was inherited by the woman and her husband after his grandmother died at the age of 102, was presented to appraiser Gloria Lieberman on the show.
The guest was then told that despite losing two of its pearls – each valued at $5,000 – the necklace was currently worth a staggering $200,000.
Lieberman also advised the guest to get the necklace restrung at a Tiffany’s store and to ‘wear it sometimes to enjoy its beauty’ but mostly keep it for important occasions.
