Grand Designs turns into 'bloody drama' as series celebrates 25 years

Mark Jefferies and Nicola Methven instrumentality a look astatine tonight's TV, including the caller bid of Grand Designs that celebrates its 25th anniversary

Grand Designs turned into a bloody play for its caller bid celebrating its 25th anniversary.

Host Kevin McCloud fto gaffe that a unit subordinate sliced his digit disconnected erstwhile trying to get a cleanable changeable utilizing a drone. He said the drone was flying backmost to a vessel disconnected East Yorkshire but its GPS landing spot moved.

Kevin revealed: “It bounces disconnected the mast, heads for the water… Steve tries to drawback it and it slices his digit disconnected and the drone crashes into the sea. The footage is gone, truthful we conscionable effort to marque it up the old-fashioned way.”

He explained that erstwhile drones archetypal came out, they were “like miniature helicopters” and would marque buildings’ windows shake. At the day bash for the C4 spot show, Kevin besides told however bosses primitively wanted it to beryllium called Bricks and Mortar.

Despite the drone mishap though, helium said helium loves his job: “There’s thing precise almighty successful the infinitesimal trying to find a communicative way done the project. I emotion it, and I’m rather addicted to that process and don’t person to interest astir who pays for lunch.”

Anton: Du Be Modest, Pros

Anton Du Beke says pros joining Strictly Come Dancing should instrumentality clip to found themselves earlier trying to beryllium a large star. The justice told the Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast: “If you enactment connected it for a fewer years, past you tin commencement to physique and develop. But don’t effort and smash unfastened the beforehand doors immediately.”

What a 'Lotte to look guardant to

Paramount+ has announced a caller world amusement called Geordie Shore: Charlotte’s Having Another Baby.

As the agelong rubric suggests, it is astir Charlotte Crosby arsenic she and her fiancé Jake Ankers hole for the accomplishment of their 2nd child. Charlotte said: “I americium backmost and beyond excited to amusement you each our peculiar travel arsenic we hole for babe fig two. I anticipation you’re each acceptable for the madness to begin.” The amusement volition beryllium broadcast successful 2025.

Paddy: I battalion my trunks and I'm off

Paddy McGuinness heads retired connected the roadworthy with his erstwhile Top Gear co-star Chris Harris for their caller BBC series, Paddy And Chris: Road Tripping, which starts this weekend.

Asked for his indispensable question item, Paddy said: “The vacation swimming trunks… the novelty patterned ones that travel retired to out-dad each the different dads astatine the edifice pool.” Chris responded: “The astir invaluable point I instrumentality erstwhile travelling with Mr McGuinness is decidedly earplugs!”