She co-presented the television series Restoration with Ptolemy Dean and Griff Rhys Jones.
[4] She also writes articles for national newspapers and magazines, including contributions to Period Living.
[3] On her own account, she restored a derelict thatched cottage in Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire, with a friend.
On British house-hunters in France, she has said:[9] There is nothing worse than a Brit banging on about finding a fantastic old French barn for only £20,000 with all of its original features and then they spend the next six months ripping them all out.
The problem is we are buying incredibly picturesque homes and then rather bizarrely taking all the wibbly wobbliness out.