Channel 4 has reduce ties with Escape to the Chateau stars Dick and Angel Strawbridge following experiences that the couple had clashed with producers.
The pair have appeared on the programme, which follows their renovation of a Nineteenth-century chateau in Martigné-sur-Mayenne, France, for 9 seasons starting in 2016 and ending in December 2022.
Deadline first reported Tuesday (17 Could) that the broadcaster had ended its relationship with the Strawbridges.
In line with the report, an impartial HR investigation was ordered by Channel 4 after Two Rivers Media, the corporate that produces the Escape To The Chateau franchise, raised issues concerning the couple.
“Following a overview, we have now taken the choice to not work with Dick and Angel on any new productions sooner or later,” a Channel 4 spokeswoman stated.
Two Rivers Media additionally confirmed that they “will not work with Dick and Angel and can’t remark additional in the mean time”.
Whereas the character of the issues raised weren’t disclosed, Deadline’s sources say “there was a deteriorating relationship between Two Rivers and Dick and Angel’s Chateau TV for varied causes and all of it got here to a head”.
Dick and Angel Strawbridge, stars of ‘Escape to the Chateau’
(Chateau TV)
“I’ve seen them swearing at folks,” one other supply reportedly stated. “Producers flip them into this good, good, humorous couple. They’re that on digital camera, however that’s about it.”
The Impartial has contacted Dick and Angel’s firm Chateau TV for remark.
The information follows a 2021 report in The Instances, which obtained clips of Angel, 45, calling a producer a “f***ing c***”.
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One other hears Dick, 63, telling a producer “f*** you”. Sources from the present’s earlier manufacturing firm, Spark Media, accused the couple of bullying and stated they made engaged on the programme an “anxiety-inducing ordeal”.
Representatives for the couple on the time denied that they have been aggressive or had bullied workers.
Dick is an engineer and former Lieutenant Colonel within the British Military. Earlier than Escape to the Chateau, he appeared on quite a lot of actuality TV exhibits together with, It’s Not Simple Being Inexperienced (2006), Coast (2006), Scrapheap Problem (2009), The Hungry Sailors (2011), Saturday Farm (2011).
In the meantime, Angel runs a hospitality enterprise referred to as The Classic Patisserie, which she sought funding for on Dragon’s Den in 2010.
Dick usually performs the mechanical and building parts of the renovation whereas Angel supplies the house’s fashion and inside design.
They’ve two youngsters, Arthur and Dorothy.
