ALAN Titchmarsh has defended not using his real home for his show, Love Your Weekend.
This comes after Meghan Markle has faced backlash for using a rented house for her Netflix lifestyle show, With Love Meghan.
Alan Titchmarsh defended the use of another barn for his ITV show[/caption]
He appeared on the Spooning with Mark Wogan podcast[/caption]
Alan, 75, has fronted many programmes on a number of networks over his decades long career, including the hit BBC programme, Gardener’s World.
His ITV show Love Your Weekend aims to celebrate all that is great about the British countryside as he hosts segments on arts, crafts, manufacturing and produce.
Huge names often appear which have recently included Katherine Jenkins and Gavin and Stacey star Joanna Page.
Despite the impression that the barn set is from his own lavish property, the daytime show is actually filmed at Manor Farm in Hampshire.
Viewers have loved watching the antics from the Grade II-listed Georgian farmhouse studio.
Appearing on the Spooning with Mark Wogan podcast, the presenter defended the decision not to film the show on his own property.
“Love Your Weekend is a couple of villages away. It’s not my barn. It’s not a big [deal]. I’ve adopted it,” he explained.
Mark then jokingly slammed TV presenters that give the impression they use their own homes for their TV shows.
He remarked: “What is it with you people who are on the weekend who give us the impression that you are in your own homes and you’re not?”
Adding: “I mean, James Martin does the same.”
However, the horticultural expert insisted that he has nothing to hide, and that other people might simply assume things.
“No, I’ve never said it’s my own home, it’s just where I am every Sunday, but it’s … yeah,
“People associate you with a place and suddenly it becomes yours.”
This comes as Meghan ditched her Montecito mansion and hired a neighbour’s £5million farmhouse to film her new Netflix cooking show.
Love Your Weekend aims to celebrate everything about the British countryside[/caption]
It is filmed at Manor Farm, a Grade II-listed Georgian farmhouse in Hampshire[/caption]
Mark Wogan humorously hit out at presenters that do not use their own homes to film their self-titled shows[/caption]
Meghan Markle ditched her Montecito mansion to film her Netflix lifestyle show[/caption]
Alan Titchmarsh spoke on Spooning With Mark Wogan podcast.
