Dick and Angel Strawbridge "made the decision" to end 'Escape to the Chateau' long before the news broke.
Dick and Angel will never complain, never explain their reasons for ending TV sho
The married couple had charted their journey renovating an abandoned French chateau along with their children Arthur, 10 and eight-year-old Dorothy over the course of nine series but brought the show to an end last year and have now insisted that the decision to do so was "in the past" to them by the time the announcement came.
Speaking on ITV's 'Lorraine', Dick told stand-in host Christine Lampard: "It's interesting because we were explaining before Christmas the end of the nine series. Arthur is about to go to senior school and as a family, we made a decision that last year was going to be the finale of the 'Escape to the Chateau', so we'd finished. Everybody knew it was finishing. So when the stories came and people started talking about the end of what we were doing, it wasn't news it was something that had happened a long time in the past. We made the decision to just not get involved in the conversations."
Meanwhile, Angel - who tied the knot with Dick in 2015 - has taken inspiration from the late Queen Elizabeth and has decided to "never explain, never explain" much behind the end of the programme.
She said: "Our Queen said 'Never complain, and never explain' and I think that was just the best way. None of it made sense, we had made that family decision and 'Escape' had come to its natural end."
The couple also hire out the famed TV location for weddings and Angel went on to explain that they have only just managed to catch up on bookings following the massive delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
She said: "Find a job that you like and you won't work another day in your life. We caught up in September this year that with all of our weddings and event that were booked in pre-COVID and it was such a sense of relief. Every wedding we have had, we get asked all the time 'Oh, you must have bridezillas'. I think we've hosted 50 or 60 weddings now, we have never had one. It is such a beautiful moment. I cry every time."