Where original Changing Rooms cast are now – prison stint after £50K cancer fraud to buying a zoo & surprise new career

CHANGING Rooms was the iconic plan amusement that captured the hearts of the federation successful the 90s - and present its reboot is backmost contiguous for a 2nd series.

Show fable Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen volition big season 2 alone, with Anna Richardson having discontinue owed to different commitments.

The fashionable TV show sees neighbours instrumentality implicit each other’s homes alongside a nonrecreational decorator and transportation retired makeovers - with mixed results.

Back successful the 90s it was hosted by Carol Smillie, and featured instrumentality favourites Handy Andy Kane and Linda Barker.

Here we instrumentality a look astatine what the archetypal formed are up to now.

Bought a zoo

Former exemplary and fittingness teacher Anna Ryder Richardson, present 58, was an interior decorator by the clip she came to Changing Rooms - and became known for immoderate unsocial choices.

A standout infinitesimal was erstwhile she framed erotic French undergarments and placed them astir 1 homeowner’s room.

On seeing the results, the contestant screamed and cried: "Why would I privation this s**t successful my room?! I've got children!”

Anna endured a stint successful the jungle during 2007's I'm A Celeb, and successful 2008 she fulfilled her lifelong imagination of owning a zoo erstwhile she purchased Manor House Wildlife Park successful Pembrokeshire for £1million.

This led to a load of TV bid astir her experiences looking aft animals, including Chaos astatine the Zoo, Anna's Welsh Zoo and Wild Welsh Zoo.

Her teenage daughters Bibi and Dixie grew up "surrounded by gibbons, rhino and tigers".

However, successful 2012 she and her hubby Colin MacDougall were charged with wellness and information violations erstwhile a parent and four-year-old lad were crushed by a falling tree.

MacDougall was fined £110,000 aft a 3 week proceedings - astatine a clip erstwhile the mates had been surviving successful a woody compartment to prevention wealth to implicit the rhino enclosure.

Anna has since admitted the "stresses and strains" of moving the zoo are what ended her and Colin's 18-year marriage.

Anna present presents connected BBC Radio Wales, lives successful a farmhouse adjacent the parkland and regularly posts updates from the zoo.

Imprisoned for £50k crab fraud

Elizabeth Wagstaff was 1 of the makeover experts connected Changing Rooms, but she was handed a one-year situation condemnation successful 2000 aft lying to galore of her friends and colleagues astir having terminal crab successful bid to rise much than £54,000.

The fraudster said she needed the wealth for aesculapian attraction successful America, but utilized it to bargain costly nutrient and decorator clothes.

She took £13,000 from her past fellow and ample amounts from immoderate of her Changing Rooms co-stars and producers, including Linda, Laurence and Anna.

Laurence - whose begetter died from leukaemia - and his wife Jacqueline had felt truthful atrocious for Elizabeth, they adjacent made her godmother to their girl Hermione.

Elizabeth pleaded blameworthy to 14 counts of obtaining a wealth transportation by deception and 4 of obtaining spot by deception.

Judge Quentin Campbell told her: "The quality of your deceptions was peculiarly cruel and unpleasant. There cannot beryllium anyone successful this tribunal who has not had a person oregon comparative who genuinely does endure from crab oregon had died from that disease."

Famous successful Asia and Australia

During his clip connected Changing Rooms, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen became arsenic well-known for his large suits arsenic his daring designs and dubbed himself “the Pope of subversion” passim his clip connected the show.

Thanks to his crisp tongue, helium went connected to go a immense personage successful Asia and Australia arsenic a justice connected TV amusement The Apartment, and past House Rules.

He admitted it took a spot of persuading to get him to instrumentality to Changing Rooms, telling The Sun: “I’ve got truthful utilized to these tremendous shows successful Asia, successful Australia, successful America.

"In Asia I’ve got 130million viewers and it’s each astir my guyliner, and it’s each astir my backlighting and it’s a immense crew. I don’t determination without 300 radical successful an entourage. 

“Suddenly Changing Rooms is similar unrecorded and acoustic. It’s virtually similar going backmost to having a performance supra a pub again. It’s incredibly invigorating, adjacent successful my precocious age. I deliberation that’s 1 of the reasons I said yes.”

Laurence, 57, lives successful the Cotswolds with woman Jackie. He has 2 grown-up daughters and 3 spaniels.

Surprise caller career

Carol Smillie hosted Changing Rooms from its commencement until 2003, and won a National TV Award and Bafta nomination, and admitted she was disappointed not to person been formed successful the reboot.

She went connected to big Wheel of Fortune, but sparked contention successful 2003 erstwhile she admitted she cheated connected a Mensa trial which she took to beryllium crippled amusement hostesses aren't stupid.

These days Carol has a precise antithetic job officiating weddings, naming ceremonies and funerals aft becoming a humanist celebrant a fewer years ago.

Carol - who works nether her joined sanction Carol King - joined her archetypal mates successful 2019.

The 60-year-old precocious appeared connected BBC's House of Games, and galore viewers commented connected her ageless bully looks.

Reality TV star

Aside from Laurence, Linda Barker was the astir memorable decorator successful the archetypal Changing Rooms line-up - chiefly due to the fact that she accidentally demolished a mediocre woman’s invaluable postulation of antique teapots erstwhile she built a floating support unit.

After the amusement ended successful 2003, Linda headed into the I’m A Celebrity jungle and finished third.

She besides appeared connected personage diving contention Splash and won Celebrity Come Dine With Me.

Linda presently writes and publishes plan books and has her ain fancy room range, arsenic good arsenic enactment of paints. She besides presents segments connected Steph's Packed Lunch.

Linda and her erstwhile TV enforcement hubby Chris Short, who stock a daughter, precocious relocated from London to East Riding of Yorkshire.

Stateside move

Cockney builder Andy Kane was ever acceptable to bash the DIY jobs that the contestants couldn’t grip - which led to him getting the nickname Handy Andy.

Once the UK amusement wrapped, Andy moved Stateside to enactment connected the US mentation - called Trading Spaces.

He has besides presented 3 shows for UK Style, Garden Rivals, Room Rivals and Streetcombers, arsenic good arsenic Increase Your House Price By Ten Grand.

On apical of that, helium has besides hosted a fig of BBC Primary Geography programmes since 2008.

He is happily joined to his woman Geraldine and they person 4 children.

Stays retired of limelight

Graham Wynne was 1 of Changing Rooms' main designers from 1996 to 2004 and was often seen wielding cloth and a glue gun.

That was beauteous overmuch his lone telly stint, barroom a documentary - Now That's Embarrassing: The 80s - successful 2006.

The interior designer, who antecedently worked arsenic a originative advisor for Ralph Lauren, present keeps a debased illustration but did be a Changing Room reunion successful 2000.

Respected designer

Designer and designer Michael Jewitt worked successful telly for six years, doing 4 bid of Changing Rooms arsenic good arsenic 23 episodes of BBC's Change That, and 4 bid of Housecall.

He went connected to plan branding for companies including Gourmet Ireland, and designed offices successful London, France and Greece for luxury yacht makers Sunseeker.

He's besides restored Grade II listed buildings.