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 10 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in March 2026.
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Celebrity Escape To The Country
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'.
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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.
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
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.
Series 3
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.
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 2
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.