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Kevin McCloud: ‘I never get enraged, though inside I might be seething’

INTERVIEW: As he gears up for the annual Grand Designs Live event, the Channel 4 stalwart speaks to Adam White about Margaret Thatcher, Rachel Reeves and Britain’s ‘shameful and appalling’ housing standards, his eagerness to keep his private life private, and how he wishes people didn’t fancy him

The Independent UK

Gossip, gowns and Agas: could Ladies of the Cotswolds be reality TV’s next big thing?

Grand Designs team to make show set in wealthy English countryside that promises to be part glittering social whirl and part bloodbath

The Guardian - UK

Away with Anthony Burke: ‘We did yoga twice a day and listened to the monkeys and elephants at night’

In Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about travel, the Grand Designs Australia host reveals why he always packs a sketchbook, and welcomes things ‘not working out’

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“Grand Designs is inspiring – it highlights the human spirit”: Alter Bridge singer and certified Anglophile Myles Kennedy names his favourite British TV shows

You know about Myles Kennedy’s work with Alter Bridge and Slash. You probably don’t know about his love for quaint UK TV programmes, though.

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The most unusual property sales of 2024 — from a lighthouse to a nuclear bunker

There were no shortage of wacky properties to hit the market this year, including nuclear bunkers, a studio with a cell and a replica of the HMS Endeavour

Evening Standard

Grand Designs episode branded ‘best ever’ as viewers ‘left in tears’ over disabled young mother’s dream home

‘We’ve created something beautiful in the eye of the storm,’ said Kara, who now has her dream home

The Independent UK

How to watch Grand Designs Australia online: stream season 11 for free

Here's how you can watch Grand Designs Australia season 11 online, ready for its debut on Thursday, October 10, 2024.

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Kevin McCloud: 'The whole house-building market, and model, is broken.'

The living legend takes on the housing system as Grand Designs Live celebrates 25 years...

Evening Standard

‘Our houses are too big’: Grand Designs’ Anthony Burke on the best and worst of Australian architecture

The architecture professor on homes with more bathrooms than occupants – and how the Sydney metro might renew confidence in the benefits of good design

The Guardian - AU

Couple’s ‘miracle’ Grand Design renovation leaves Kevin McCloud speechless

The presenter said he couldn’t have pulled it off himself

The Independent UK

Kevin McCloud reveals how AI will affect the Grand Designs of the future

Exclusive: ‘It going to be so much easier’

The Independent UK

‘Painful’ Grand Designs home with four years of plans leaves viewers in disbelief

The owner admits the build, which featured seemingly levitating floors, was ‘more complex’ than anticipated

The Independent UK

Grand Designs: 'I put my life on hold to convert a derelict water tank into a £1.4 million dream home'

Rob Hunt endured living in a mobile home and a broken leg while working on this unique project featured on the next series of Grand Designs

Evening Standard

Grand Designs’ best, worst and downright disastrous builds as the show celebrates 25th anniversary

The show first aired in 1999

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Grand Designs: 25 Years And Counting — release date, trailer, interview and everything we know

Grand Designs: 25 Years And Counting will revisit some of the most memorable builds - the fabulous, the outlandish and the disasters!

The Guardian - UK

Grand Designs: 25 Years & Counting – people enduring hell for a slightly nicer house? It’s TV made in heaven

Give us another 50 years of this strangely moving, often harebrained show. After watching this celebratory episode, it’s hard not to love Kevin McCloud’s series seven times more than you already do

The Independent UK

Grand Designs to reveal fate of ‘saddest ever property’ that ruined marriage and lost millions

Chesil Cliff House destroyed Edward Short’s marriage and left him millions of pounds in debt

The Independent UK

Grand Designs’ Kevin McCloud reveals the house feature he hates the most

TV presenter is unlikely to recommend this feature to UK homeowners

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The Independent UK

Owner of Grand Designs’ ‘saddest ever house’ reveals negative bank balance 10 years after disastrous build

Edward Short’s grand design has left him a ‘minus millionaire’

The Independent UK

Sprawling Cornish clifftop home with ‘Grand Designs potential’ up for auction

It has a breathtaking coastal view

The Independent UK

Iconic Grand Designs B&B that blends into its Lake District surroundings to finally close doors

The house was at one point incomplete after its builder ran out of cash

The Independent UK

‘Largest ever’ Grand Designs home that nearly ruined owner on sale for £4 million

It is seven times bigger than the average house

Ideal Home

Kevin McCloud reveals how he’s made his IKEA kitchen look expensive – and how you can too

This is how the Grand Designs presenter elevated his flat pack kitchen

Evening Standard

Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud says struggling first-time buyers should 'move to Germany'

Television star Kevin McCloud says that first-time buyers struggling to get on the housing ladder should “move to Germany”.

Evening Standard

Kevin McCloud: 'Grand Designs is such an emotional journey — even I want to cry filming it'

From welling up on camera to getting angry over the state of Britain’s housebuilding, Kevin McCloud knows there’s nothing more emotive than our homes

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