Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen savages Stacey Solomon's show in brutal swipe
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, who rose to fame on Changing Rooms, has revealed he hasn't watched Stacey Solomon's Sort Your Life Out due to one brutal reason
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, who rose to fame on Changing Rooms, has revealed he hasn't watched Stacey Solomon's Sort Your Life Out due to one brutal reasonLaurence Llewelyn-Bowen has slammed Stacey Solomon's Sort Your Life Out (
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Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen has taken a savage swipe at Stacey Solomon, criticising her show Sort Your Life Out.
Former X Factor star Stacey, 35, has become a beloved TV personality, with her BBC show attracting over two million viewers. The programme features Stacey and her team decluttering homes before giving them a makeover.
However, Laurence, 59, who gained fame as the host of Changing Rooms in the 1990s, has slammed the show. When Closer magazine asked if he watches other makeover shows like Sort Your Life Out, Laurence retorted: "No, that's not design is it?
"That's folding someone's underpants. I'm very involved in Interior Design Masters, and it has just been announced that Outrageous Homes is coming back this year, and I'm very proud of that show."
Laurence says his career is having a "mini-Renaissance" (
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Laurence, who recently appeared on Netflix's Celebrity Bear Hunt, said he was still heavily involved in the "home zone" and described his career as having a "mini-renaissance". He added: "I've been taken out of the crypt and revived."
This week, it was announced that Channel 4 has commissioned a new series of Outrageous Homes, reports the Manchester Evening News. The series features designer Laurence visiting homes with unique interiors to uncover the stories behind them.
Speaking to Channel 4, Laurence said: "Twenty-eight years ago when I filmed the first episode of Changing Rooms, I suspected that this nation wasn't actually the aesthetic blandscape it appeared to be and now, with Outrageous Homes Season Deux (The Glampire Strikes Back) I'll be up to the armpits in weird.
"Homeowners who dare to be different are the beating heart of this celebratory telly feast and I can't wait to spend time with yet more carbon-based lifeforms who will never be afraid of living life their way."
Stacey's Sort Your Life Out has returned for its fifth series. In last week's episode, Stacey was moved to tears while helping a family in Leeds declutter their home.
Stacey Solomon was brought to tears during an episode of Sort Your Life Out (
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The TV star was deeply touched when helping Ben and Lynda Brearly-Baird, along with their five year old daughter Charlotte, tackle their incredibly cluttered house, which included a garage filled from floor to ceiling. In one particularly poignant moment, Lynda, who has been diagnosed with incurable breast cancer, told Stacey she planned to declutter their home to make a positive change for the family.
Lynda showed Stacey a memory box she was preparing for young Charlotte. "I've actually started one myself for unfortunately, ever since (I realised) at some point I won't be here anymore," Lynda confided.
She added: "I've also got a notebook that random thoughts have come into my head that I'd probably say to her when she's a teenager, when she's a bit older, and things like that... My aim is to do something for her wedding day...or if she ever has children, if I was there, this is what I'd be thinking to you.
"The worst fear for me was when I was first found out, Charlotte was still quite young, is that she won't remember me. I want her to remember me."
The emotional encounter clearly affected Stacey, who told viewers: "I've never gone through a section where somebody is aware that there'll be memories they're going to miss. I don't want to get upset because I feel like really that's not my job, like I'm here to help this family, and it's not happening to me, it's happening to them."