Robin Leach Robin Douglas Leach ( born August 29 , 1941 ) is an English celebrity writer famous for hosting his first show , Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous in the 1980s , which focuses on the lavish luxurious mansions , cars , yachts of celebrities , and sometimes has interviews with them , either at home , or on their vacations . His voice is often parodied by other actors with his signature phrase , `` champagne wishes and caviar dreams . `` During grammar school at Harrow County School for Boys , 20 miles from London , he edited a school magazine , The Gayton Times , at age 14 . At age 15 he became a general news reporter for The Harrow Observer and started a monthly glossy town magazine at age 17 . Leach moved on to the prestigious Daily Mail as Britain 's youngest page one reporter at age 18 . In 1963 , he emigrated to America and wrote for a number of publications ( New York Daily News , People , Ladies Home Journal etc. ) before launching GO Magazine and then was show business editor of The Star . Other television work includes reporting for People Tonight on CNN and Entertainment Tonight and helping start Good Morning Australia as well as the Food Network . He makes occasional guest appearances on television shows and does many voiceovers for shows emphasizing the wealth of celebrities and lavish places of the world on VH1 . Robin Leach was also a guest at WWF Wrestlemania 4 , reading the rules for the championship tournament . Robin Leach currently resides in Las Vegas and writes a daily blog titled Luxe Life on the AOL Vegas site . Trivia Leach owns an exquisite mansion on the tropical paradise of Antigua and Barbuda . Leach is a guest in an episode of Penn and Teller 's TV show in which they criticize the concept of `` The Best '' . Leach was shortly involved with KVTE-LP in an attempt to launch an all Vegas Television Network External links Robin Leach at the Internet Movie Database This biographical article related to television is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it . Categories : Infotainers | 1941 births | Living people | Television biography stubs 0494858 Robin Leach 