Stephen Mulhern has built a property portfolio worth more than £4m, according to company filings, adding a rare financial figure to the picture of a TV personality who has kept much of his private life out of view. The 49-year-old, born in Newham on April 4 1977 and raised in Stratford, East London, is now best known to viewers as a familiar face on light entertainment.

That search interest has sharpened because Mulhern is back in the frame for a new summer project with Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly. He is set to appear with the pair on a new series of Accidental Tourist, a show that sends them to locations across the world to try new tastes and experiences. For a presenter whose personal and financial affairs are usually left largely private, the property detail gives a clearer view of the scale of his off-screen success.

Mulhern’s route to television began long before the glossy Saturday-night jobs. He was scouted at a Butlin’s talent show when he was 16 and became a Redcoat entertainer, then started presenting for CITV in 1998 alongside Danielle Nicholls. The pair hosted the children’s strand until 2001, and Mulhern later went on to front shows including Dancing on Ice, Britain’s Got More Talent, Catchphrase and Deal Or No Deal.

His early life also shaped the path that followed. He grew up with his market trader parents and siblings Vinny, Christopher and Susie, and he has spoken before about a father who loved magic so much that he would perform a trick rather than tell a bedtime story. That kind of upbringing helped foster a belief in magic from an early age, and Mulhern has carried that interest through his career, appearing in pantomimes and working as a magician as well as a presenter.

The private-money snapshot matters because it sits alongside a career built in public but a life kept carefully guarded. Mulhern is also a long-time friend of McPartlin and Donnelly and has worked with them regularly, but the filings now point to a performer who has turned years of steady TV work into a substantial property holding. What remains unclear is how he assembled that portfolio, and whether the summer run with Ant and Dec will add another visible chapter to a career that has already stretched from CITV to prime-time ITV.