Escape to the Chateau

[WeAreTheHeroes]

Do the production company think we're all stupid? Dick and Angel haven't just suddenly found that wall is a stud wall fgs! Clearly a total set up.

@SwedishEdith

I wondered why the kids were still sharing. Is it because a lot of rooms are still unrenovated (but surely you'd do the kids' rooms first?) or do they like sharing because the house is so big so feels a bit scary? I imagine it's because they're maximising the number of rooms they can charge for atm.

I presume they've created a family self- contained apartment, but the rest is rentable.

I can't get over the fact that they live in a 45 room chateau while the parents are consigned to a converted shed .

We used to watch it, but they just appear more and more sexist with the little girl in stupid clothes she can’t play in and only being given ‘girly’ things, while their son is appropriately dressed and seems to be able to do whatever he wants, plus the little boy is becoming even more obese, poor kid.

@Simonjt

We used to watch it, but they just appear more and more sexist with the little girl in stupid clothes she can’t play in and only being given ‘girly’ things, while their son is appropriately dressed and seems to be able to do whatever he wants, plus the little boy is becoming even more obese, poor kid.

They do, the son is even kitted out in linentunic topslike his father whereas whereas girl had a whole wardrobe of kimono. Yet the clothes they were chucking out were all tshirts with slogans and logos. Hmm...

Tbh I think I'm hate watching it now
I do love a binge of Chateau DIY though, I like some of the other chateau owners!

Aw, come on. The personal attacks on the kids are uncalled for.

Lots of the chateau DIY owners have YouTube channels where you see more

I have never understood the appeal of this programme. It’s always been false, right at the beginning I watched one episode, oh they’re down to their last euro, but they’re having a new heating system installed 🤔. Aye right! It’s a load of bollocks

And isn’t her name Angela?

@spotcheck

Aw, come on. The personal attacks on the kids are uncalled for.

Totally agree

Yes it is, Angel is the persona she created for her vintage tearoom business.

Her parents are hardly living in a "shed" - it's huge. I'm not sure they live there full time with D&A.

I too hated the mezzanine bedroom thing - what that room really needed was a bloody good clear out. My mum used to make me go through all my stuff at that age and give away toys I had stopped playing with.

@TheSpottedZebra

Tbh I think I'm hate watching it now I do love a binge of Chateau DIY though, I like some of the other chateau owners!

There's an interesting YouTube channel by another chateau owner "doing it ourselves ". It's by Michael Petherick who is friends with chateau owner Stephanie and her french mother. It's a good channel but it also has an interesting episode where he explains in detail why he no longer participates in the diy series. Interesting info re Dick and Angela. Sorry can't link as on phone.

Stephanie also has her own YouTube channel and blogs weekly. She's great!

@nordicnorth

Stephanie also has her own YouTube channel and blogs weekly. She's great!

Stephanie and her mother are hilarious.

Are you shattering my illusion didge? 😲

DidgeDoolittle

Give us the jist!

Ah I've just found this and wondered if anyone else thought it was odd that the kids are sharing a bedroom. With all those rooms and at their ages surely they should have their own bedrooms. Also Dick and Angel's bedroom and her walk in closet seemed very small for such a huge property. Even if a lot of the other rooms are for guests surely they could manage to have bigger rooms and more space for themselves, or what is the point in living in such a huge place?

The DC's bedroom looked so cluttered with all those toys it made me want to start throwing most of it in black bags.

@SwedishEdith

I wondered why the kids were still sharing. Is it because a lot of rooms are still unrenovated (but surely you'd do the kids' rooms first?) or do they like sharing because the house is so big so feels a bit scary? I imagine it's because they're maximising the number of rooms they can charge for atm.

They don't run it like a hotel. I think you can only stay if you get married.

I think it's because it's a suite and if one child was in a separate bedroom they'd be quite far away from everyone else.

@DidgeDoolittle please tell us what he said!

What is the episode called?

The youtube episode that DidgeDooLittle refers to was taken down by MP, but the gist is he used to do some design work for D&A, in fact I think on her tea party book she credits him for the design cover, however when D&A used one of his designs in their homeware linens range which is widely sold MP felt that he still owned the design and so they made him sign the copyright over to them and I guess he felt they didn't pay him enough. Now D&A openly admit to working with a different designer and hinted in an email/newsletter to their fans that it was this other designer that does all their designs.

D&A were executive producers on Escape to The Chateau DIY and the Pethericks were dropped from the program when the fallout happened. But it wasn't just MP, his sister Sadie also worked for them doing admin/waitressing I think and she was also fired from working for them.

MP's youtube channel is called 'Doing it Ourselves' and Stephanie's is called The Chateau Diaries, both I think earn very nicely out of their youtube income and a patreon income.

The kids have a separate playroom complete with helter skelter so it's not as if they couldn't each have a bedroom.

I'm guessing he didn't negotiate hard enough then - the Facebook posts states they were dropped for lowering the tone so goodness knows what happens. I'm also guessing he was issued with something like a cease and desist letter and told to remove his YouTube video or face legal action.

I thought they said the kids still want to share a room with one another.

Doesn't mean they really do!

Possibly yes - his brother also has a youtube channel called The Pethericks which shows a lot about their Chateau, Micheal has been renovating the Gardners Cottage, oh and their sister Sadie has made a few videos as well, some showing other members of the family who live there doing baking, furniture restoration that channel is called Sadie in France.