Escape To The Chateau’s Dick Strawbridge and his wife Angel Adoree have shared an update on the ongoing restoration work at their beloved French château.
The reality show, which ran from 2016 to 2022, followed the British couple as they bought and renovated a 19th-century château.
The pair juggled doing up the manor in north-west France with raising two young children and running a wedding and event planning business.
Dick, 66, revealed their home is still an ongoing cycle of restoration and confessed it ‘won’t be finished for a long time’.
However, Dick did admit fans will notice a huge difference in how the château looks as he spoke about the progress they have made.
Dick said: ‘We still have bright ideas every day, and we won’t be finished for a long time, you know, because we’ve got projects going on over here.
Escape To The Chateau’s Dick Strawbridge, 66, and his wife Angel Adoree, 47, have shared an update on the ongoing restoration work at their beloved French château
The reality show, which ran from 2016 to 2022, followed the British couple as they bought and renovated a 19th-century château
‘The place has changed a lot, and it’s interesting when we walk around and show people. The last time people saw this [the chateau] was when we did our farewell. Our big sort of party to end the filming of Escape to the Chateau’, he told Devon Live.
In the new interview, the couple also reflected on walking away from the fan-favourite Channel 4 show.
As they looked back on their filming days, Dick and Angel insisted removing cameras out of the family’s life was ‘the right thing to do’ so they could focus more on their children’s livelihood and navigating senior school.
Dick added: ‘Back in 2022, we had a huge conversation saying, “before they get all the pressures that young people have in their lives on them, it was time for us to walk away from the Escape”.’
Angel, 47, added: ‘They’d had the cameras here all year round, and it was exactly the right thing to do. What we’re not against, we haven’t sort of hidden them away from the media. They love it.’
A recent snap the family posted to social media shows off their gorgeous, tucked-away vegetable garden, surrounded by lush trees and climbing plants.
In the Instagram post, Dick was seen walking alongside the abundant beds with his children Arthur, 13, and Dorothy, 11.
The youngsters were helping their father pick the homegrown produce, with stunning views of the turreted property behind them.
The pair juggled doing up the manor in north-west France with raising two young children and running a wedding and event planning business
Dick revealed their home is still an ongoing cycle of restoration and confessed it ‘won’t be finished for a long time’
In the new interview, the couple also reflected on walking away from the fan-favourite Channel 4 show and admitted they have no regrets
The secluded part of the chateau’s sprawling 12-acre grounds is located close to the main house, presumably to provide easy access to the kitchen garden.
But it is seemingly surrounded by tall brick walls and shaded by lofty trees, perhaps explaining why viewers have not seen so much of this part of the property before.
It is a beautiful outdoor space, with a charming arched entryway, neat and tidy planters and walkways lined by gorgeous flowers and shrubbery.
As well as the walled garden, the family’s land boasts an enormous barn, lots of outdoor seating and a huge private lake.
It looks just as good in winter as in summer, with another postcard-perfect snap shared by the family, in November last year, showing it covered in glittering frost.
But despite the looks of their idyllic lifestyle abroad, all has not been plain sailing at the chateau in recent times.
