A great-grandad's pastel-pink London home continues to serve as a popular tourist attraction and photoshoot hotspot a year after he hit the headlines.

Ex-fashion designer Peter Lee has countless families, influencers, ballerinas, and scantily-clad women taking photographs of themselves every day outside his house near Kensington Palace in west London.

On some days the 78-year-old leaves his home to find a queue of people waiting to have their photo taken outside his pretty Kensington home, whilst on others he discovers a hen party draped across his steps.

And though he doesn't think the recent pink explosion following the release of the trendy new Barbie film has seen an increase in visitors to his home, Mr Lee continues to see models and bloggers flock to his front door.

"Every day when the sun's out I have people round taking photos on the steps," he said. "

"I don't know what they're doing, blogs on their websites? "

"One girl was sat out there for half a day on her own. She put her phone in the middle of the street, took photos of herself against the house and then ran back to grab the phone when a car came. "

"I normally just watch them on the screen, but I had to go down and say, 'Did you get what you wanted? You've been out there for half the day'."

"One group of girls put a changing tent outside my garage. "

"I could hear them arguing and screaming; all these models having a real tantrum. "

"They left all their clothes there - all brand new. So I put a notice on the railings saying, 'Bag inside, please knock'. "

"But no one came back for them, so I gave them all to my granddaughter. She was very happy with them. "

"Another girl posing outside my door didn't even move when I opened the door and came out; she just moved to the side to let me past!"

"I think she was from Essex...". "

But though he finds his visitors highly entertaining, his home's popularity is racking up hefty repair bills

to replace the now-cracked tiles decorating the steps to the £2m house for the first time in the 45 years he's lived there.

Mr Lee - who counts Love Actually and Notting Hill writer Richard Curtis amongst his high-profile neighbours - suspects the cracks have been caused by visitors performing elaborate acrobatics to get the perfect shot - many of which have been caught on his doorbell camera.

One girl in a neon pink two-piece that matched the house held herself up on Mr Lee's railings and did the splits in the air for the camera, after flicking her hair back and forth in front of a group of friends in the same outfits.

Another more racy video shows a woman in a black swimming costume posing outside his door; her bare, tattooed legs leaving little to the imagination.

Some groups stay for hours, and a nearby ballet school have become regulars, taking the children's end-of-year pictures in ballerina dresses in front of the house.

Rather than berate visitors to what has become his own personal tourist attraction, Mr Lee insists he doesn't mind the attention.

However, what he does mind is the damage caused by so many high-heeled Instagram influencers.

"I don't really mind them... I find it all quite amusing," he said. "

"People often say, 'I love your house!'. It's amusing and I like the compliments."

"But I do object to the damage... It's going to cost me a lot to fix the tiles."

The pristine two-bed house is painted a light, pastel pink and is surrounded by black iron railings and black tiles leading up to the porch.

Plants hang over the entrance with white latticed windows.

But Mr Lee is concerned about the cost of repairing the damage to his tiles, adding: "Girls with high heels are probably causing damage to the steps. "

"I did see one girl in heels jumping up and down flinging her arms up in the air. "

"I was watching from the living room and thought, 'That stupid girl is going to be damaging my tiles'. I went outside afterwards and saw two tiles were cracked."

"They're strong enough for walking but not jumping. "

"They could have been cracked from somebody delivering the washing machine, I can't totally put it down to the girls dancing up and down the steps. "

"Breaking the tiles is a nuisance, but it's done."

"These tiles should last a lifetime. As you can see from the photographs I'm very finickity about every detail. "

"It's going to cost thousands of pounds to replace the steps, and I can't get the old-fashioned tiles."

"The modern version of the tiles are so thin, they look rubbish. And it's still £2,500 to do ten steps."

"They just do not look good, when you have a period house it's the little details that matter. I want to keep it authentic."

Made in Chelsea star Binky Felstead is one of the more famous visitors to pose outside Mr Lee's door, in what looks like a professional photoshoot with a photographer calling for her to change her poses as a crowd looked on.



Mr Lee filmed the scene. He said: "My granddaughter saw the picture and said she was famous."

"But they didn't ask permission to take the photographs."

Mr Lee used to own Ossie Clark Ltd., a clothing line originally created by the eponymous designer who was stabbed to death in 1996.

He took over the company in 1978, the same year he moved into the property, and he retired 20 years ago.

He estimates that the influencers first began arriving when smartphones began to get cameras on them, but they've increased in recent years.

He added they do come to other houses on the street, but his does get more attention than any others 'because it's pink'.

Neighbours of Mr Lee suggested he puts a charity collection box outside.