Escape to The Cheateau star Angel Strawbridge has doubled down on her expletive rant, insisting she’s not ashamed and saying she’s ‘proud’ of defending herself.
The Channel 4 star and her husband Dick had been dropped from the channel after ‘bullying allegations’ emerged when the stunning audio was leaked final yr, with the broadcaster ordering an impartial investigation into their conduct.
The accusations got here to gentle in Could 2023 when three of Dick and Angel’s former colleagues claimed that they clashed with producers, whereas an extra supply alleged they had been a ‘nightmare to work with.’
In an announcement, a spokesperson for the broadcaster confirmed to Metro.co.uk on the time: ‘Following a evaluate, we have now taken the resolution to not work with Dick and Angel on any new productions sooner or later.’
Within the leaked audio recording, Angel, who purchased and renovated the Nineteenth-century Château de la Motte-Husson in Martigné-sur-Mayenne, France with Dick, was caught calling a producer a ‘f***ing c**t’.
Having largely stayed out of the limelight over the past yr, Angel has now spoken concerning the incident in a brand new interview, saying she’s ‘not ashamed’.
Talking to Elizabeth Day on her How To Fail podcast, the 46-year-old claimed one of many producer engaged on the present ‘wasn’t significantly very good’ and that ‘his behaviour was fully unacceptable’.
Dick & Angel
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Talking of the incident, which passed off six years in the past, she went on: ‘It didn’t simply occur in a single little second. It occurred over a number of completely different events.’
Angel went on to say that it occurred throughout a ‘busy’ time, the place she ‘didn’t have the headspace to handle his behaviour’.
She additionally claimed he was ‘horrible’ with their two youngsters, Arthur and Dorothy, and claimed he broke their fishing rods.
‘And the following day, I used to be upstairs, and he got here up in a very very out of character approach for him, and was actually, I don’t know, in my face, like he’d misplaced it in a type of approach,’ Angel stated.
She added that she had not listened again to the leaked audio, and stated: ‘It makes me really feel a little bit bit sick if I do.’
Angel went on: ‘I can’t even actually bear in mind his phrases on the time, however he was simply in my face. After which I used to be like, simply get out of my f**king home.
‘I can’t even bear in mind what I stated. I feel I stated a very dangerous phrase starting with C, I don’t even use that phrase, that’s how p***ed off I will need to have been.’
Angel stated she was ‘uncontrollably shaking’ on the time, and admitted she was ‘within the flawed for dropping my mood’, including: ‘I can’t apologise. He was so disrespectful in our home.
‘He was so upsetting to me, to my household, and I stand by what I did. I don’t know… if I had been to apologise and say, “I’m sorry for utilizing dangerous language and chucking you out,” it will simply be disingenuous to me.’
She stated that she ‘most likely did really feel a little bit bit ashamed that the children would hearken to it,’ earlier than doubling down and including: ‘I stand proud for simply defending myself at that second in opposition to his behaviour. I most likely want I hadn’t stated the C phrase.’
When requested if she regretted something about how the incident went down, Angel added: ‘I simply remorse that I didn’t do it sooner and possibly in a calmer approach.’
Angel Strawbridge’s full Escape to the Chateau rant
Within the audio, obtained by Deadline and heard by Metro.co.uk, Angel was heard saying:
Angel Strawbridge: ‘It’s not anybody’s fault, however I used to be up right here for quarter-hour ready and I wished to know the place you each had been.’
Producer: ‘The factor is, we’re all going to get actually pressured, and this subsequent week will not be –’
Angel Strawbridge: ‘My husband speaks to everybody when he’s grumpy like a chunk of s***.’
Producer: ‘And I don’t like that both.’
Angel Strawbridge: ‘No, I do know, however when individuals are pressured, which, let me let you know, we could begin by f***ing that I went onto your Instagram and have had some f***ing… and noticed among the footage that you just’ve put up. Effectively, let me let you know that there’s some on there which are so f***ing darkish that in case you can’t see that as an artist…
‘What concerning the one with the chef with the large moustache and the large shoulders? Who’s that impressed by if you’re fing working on the chateau? Simply inform me that after which you possibly can f***ing go away! And that is me f***ing indignant as a result of I feel you’re a fed up little c**t, truly.
‘Now that is me indignant! I simply wished to know the place you each had been, OK? Now, don’t work on this chateau after which put up darkish, bizarre footage that I discover fairly insulting. And don’t smirk. You understand what? You possibly can simply f*** off.’
In 2021, sources from Escape To The Chateau’s former manufacturing firm, Spark Media, claimed to The Occasions Dick and Angel had been ‘abusive and bullying’ and had made filming an ‘an anxiety-inducing ordeal’.
The couple denied the allegations of aggressive and bullying behaviour to the publication on the time.
Escape To The Chateau was introduced to be coming to an finish after the ninth season in 2022, although a pre-recorded sequence, Secret France, is now airing on Channel 4.
In an announcement launched in Could final yr on social media, Angel and Dick stated: ‘We all know there are many tales within the press proper now. It’s not price us even attempting to remark or give context, as a result of something might be made into an excellent headline. We perceive. There are two sides to each story and from the unbelievable help we have now obtained, most of you already know that.’
They pressured that ending Escape to the Chateau was ‘a Strawbridge Household resolution’.
‘We’re happy with who we’re, and we really feel we should do what we imagine to be appropriate, that’s in truth what saved Escape to the Chateau distinctive, and while we have now certainly parted methods with Channel 4, we’re vastly grateful to them and their groups for his or her help and creativity through the years,’ they wrote.
Launched in 2016, the programme charted the ups and downs of the renovation of the ruined property positioned within the small market city of Martigné-sur-Mayenne.
The couple had initially paid £280,000 after they purchased the dilapidated fortress, which has 45 bedrooms, 78 home windows, 12 acres and one moat, again in 2015.
Metro.co.uk has approached Channel 4 for remark.
Escape To The Chateau is out there to observe on Channel 4.
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