Stacey Solomon’s BBC Sort Your Life Out slammed by Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen in savage remark: ‘That’s not design!’
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen has launched a scathing attack on Stacey Solomon’s popular BBC show Sort Your Life Out, dismissing it as merely “folding someone’s underpants” rather than genuine design.
The 59-year-old interior designer, who rose to fame hosting Changing Rooms in the 1990s, made the cutting remarks
The criticism targets Solomon’s decluttering programme, which has returned to screens recently and already reduced fans to tears with its emotional family home revivals.
When asked if he watches rival makeover shows like Sort Your Life Out by Closer magazine, Llewelyn-Bowen replied: “No, that’s not design is it? That’s folding someone’s underpants.”
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“Why don’t you lock me in Stacey Solomon’s Pickle Cottage and I’ll show her what real interiors look like,” he challenged.
The designer reiterated his previous jibe and then took aim at the lower key, modern style Solomon’s show usually plumps for.
“I could be the creature that drags Stacey Solomon away from folding knickers and painting everything grey!” Llewelyn-Bowen sniped.
The 59-year-old also spoke about his career “mini-renaissance” that has seen him return to television more frequently.
“I’ve been taken out of the crypt and revived,” he told the magazine, emphasising his continued involvement in the “home zone”.
“I’m very involved in Interior Design Masters, and it has just been announced that Outrageous Homes is coming back this year, and I’m very proud of that show,” Llewelyn-Bowen glowed.
Channel 4 has commissioned a new series of Outrageous Homes, which sees Llewelyn-Bowen visiting homes with distinctive interiors to uncover the stories behind them.
Speaking about the show’s return, he said: “Twenty-eight years ago when I filmed the first episode of Changing Rooms, I suspected that this nation wasn’t actually the aesthetic blandscape it appeared to be.”
Llewelyn-Bowen has also recently appeared on the new Netflix survival show Celebrity Bear Hunt, where survivalist Bear Grylls sets challenges and pursues a group of celeb contestants.
“I got stuck underneath the raft. But I was really stupid, I didn’t stop at that point. I then kept carrying on and then I started blacking out and I started getting these chest pains,” he revealed to co-host Holly Willoughby.
The dramatic incident left the 59-year-old unable to continue with the challenge, as he remained on the beach using the oxygen mask for support.