Celebrity Escape To The Country
Celebrity Escape To The Country is a living & home improvement program on BBC1. Fancy swapping the hustle and bustle of city life for an idyllic rural retreat? The team help a host of well-known faces find their dream homes in the glorious British countryside. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 13 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in July 2026.
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Celebrity Escape To The Country
Alistair Appleton faces his toughest assignment to date as he attempts to find broadcasting icon Janet Street-Porter a country retreat, away from prying neighbours.
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Choirmaster Gareth Malone is hoping the New Forest property market hits all the right notes as he enlists the help of Sonali Shah to find him a family home in the countryside.
Nicki Chapman helps ex-England international and football hard man Neil ‘Razor’ Ruddock find his softer side as he looks to escape to the country with his family in rural Kent.
Series 1
Jules Hudson helps Jenny 'The Vixen' Ryan and her partner Thom find a new countryside home in rural Lancashire, worthy of the UK's 'queen of the quiz'.
Denise Nurse helps TV's Dr Ranj escape the city blues by looking at a fabulous selection of property options within reach of the Peak District.
Series 2
West End superstar Alfie Boe swaps the spotlight for house-hunting in Sussex with Ginny Buckley. They also switch gears for a friendly tractor race at a local vintage club.
Series 3
Television and radio presenter Angellica Bell, and husband Michael Underwood, call upon the Escape expertise of Nicki Chapman to find them a family home in rural Devon.
Series 2
Former winner of The Apprentice, Tim Campbell, is London born and bred, but is now looking for a rural family home. Can Sonali Shah help him seal the deal?
Pop icon H from Steps, along with his partner Tom, put Denise Nurse through her paces as she attempts to find their perfect family home in the beautiful South Wales countryside.
Series 3
Richie Anderson is hoping for straight tens as he takes Strictly Come Dancing professional Neil Jones and his fiancee property-shopping in the Yorkshire Dales countryside.
Series 1
Nicki Chapman helps the nation’s favourite pantomime dame and king of the jungle, Christopher Biggins, and his partner Neil, escape London for a new home in the rural Home Counties.
Series 3
‘The One and Only’ Chesney Hawkes is hopeful that Jules Hudson can find him a smash hit of a home in the chart-topping Cotswolds countryside.
Series 2
On your marks for an Escape to the Country of Olympic proportions, as sprinter Linford Christie looks for a slower lifestyle in the countryside, with the help of Alistair Appleton.