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Privacy Notice Popular BBC daytime series Escape to the Country is best known for helping prospective house hunters find their dream homes in the countryside, but one participant found things got a bit heated in a segment that had the house buyers trying out some local chillies with presenter Margherita Taylor. Property hunters Ronnie and Claire from Watford were looking for a countryside home in Bedfordshire, and in between looking at the properties on offer in the area, Margherita took them to the Love My Chillies farm in Blunham to discover more about the region and to sample the crop. However, things didn’t quite go as planned. Claire wasn’t too keen on trying the farm’s chillies, but volunteered her husband, saying: “Ronnie will love it! It just scares me to look at it.” Margherita bowed out early on but Ronnie continued to sample the vegetables – until one spicy chilli got the better of him. Sign up to OK’s TV newsletter to get updates sent to your inbox for free
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The presenter offered Ronnie a glass of milk and asked: “Oh my goodness, are you shaking?” and Ronnie replied: “It just catches the back of your throat,” as his face reddened from the heat of the chilli. “Thanks for that!” he joked, and added: “I think everyone should try one!” Escape to the Country has been a success for the BBC for more than 20 years, having launched in October 2002. Presenters have included Alistair Appleton, Nicki Chapman, Aled Jones, Jules Hudson, Anita Rani, Tim Vincent and the late Jonnie Irwin, who sadly died in February this year. Recently, one pair of potential house buyers had to address public backlash to the episode they appeared in. Jack Drury and his girlfriend were criticised for their £850,000 budget for a new home in Buckinghamshire, leading Jack to give an interview to The Express . He acknowledged that the show was “a very fair reflection of the three days we had with the team” but that people’s frustrations towards the couple were misplaced.
A couple was recently criticised on the show for their £850,000 budget
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“The right source of frustration here is that the government have failed to build enough houses for decades, which means that property prices have outstripped wage growth for the best part of 50 years. And this is a time bomb. It’s an economic, demographic, societal time bomb,” he said. “The real story I think of that episode is that our budget does not buy us the average detached house in Buckinghamshire – Escape to the Country gave that number as £881,000, which is above our budget. So we can’t even buy the average detached house according to the show. “We’ve moved from – well we have stayed in Hertfordshire – but we were looking at leaving here and in St Albans, the going rates for a Victorian worker’s terrace – a three-bed house that was put up for Victorian labourer with one income – is three-quarters of a million pounds, which nowadays demands two people, two salaries and some sorts of deposit. Now people should be frustrated with that!” he exclaimed.Story SavedYou can find this story in My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.Follow OK! MagazineFacebookTwitterCommentMore OnAnita RaniEscape to the Country
