Castle life: what’s next for Escape to the Chateau’s Dick and Angel?

Eight years after taking on the renovation of a lifetime in rural France, are the Strawbridges still full of joie de vivre?

Do you know how sexy plumbing is?” asks Dick Strawbridge. “It’s not! But it’s so, so important,” he laughs. Actually, corrects his wife, Angel, “our thermal store is a sexy thing, it’s like the London Underground, but in copper. It’s really quite incredible.”

The Strawbridges and their bubbly banter need little introduction. Their smash-hit show, Escape to the Château, which has aired on Channel 4 for the past six years, has seen millions of viewers tune in to follow the couple as they set about restoring the 150-year-old Château de la Motte-Husson to its former glory.

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