Scary Kirstie Allsopp is renowned for her no-nonsense approach with dithering TV house hunters.
Now the Location, Location Location star has admitted she had at least one of them in tears BEFORE an episode even started.
Upper crust Kirstie, who is the daughter of a baron, reckons people feel intimidated by her terse on-screen image, but insists she’s not to blame.
“I think it is the show’s fault,” she said. “One can tend to become slightly characterised.
“Although the show is completely unscripted and real, there is a sort of slightly feisty person that comes out of it who is a lot less feisty in real life.
"I have sometimes had times where I have sat down in front of the contributors and they have looked nervous.
“One time one of them burst into tears before I had opened my mouth.
"I was like, ‘What do you think I am about to do to you?’”
Now Kirstie – who fronts the Channel 4 show with Phil Spencer – is at pains to reassure fans she’s not an ogre.
“I give contributors a little pep talk beforehand now,” says the mum-of-two.
“I’m not as scary as you may think.”Kirstie said her success was down to co-host Phil, 50, as “he is a very nice person”.
However forthright, Kirstie was back in action recently – hitting back after uproar when an eight-strong camera crew turned up at her Devon home in lockdown to film her Channel 4 show Kirstie: Keep Crafting and Carry On.
Kirstie insisted that the crew filmed under “strict protocols” and said she felt carrying on with filming was the right thing to do.
