The beloved home improvement show Changing Rooms was originally broadcast on the BBC between 1996 and 2004, before being revived by Channel 4 from 2021 to 2022. The show has been hailed as one of the nation's most cherished home makeover programs.
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
Following Changing Rooms' final episode, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen has remained active through numerous television projects, including stints on Stepping Out and Celebrity Antiques Road Trip. He married his wife Jackie in 1989, and the pair share two daughters. The couple currently live in a stunning 17th-century Grade-II listed manor house in Gloucestershire. Yet, their relationship has endured its share of extreme lows. Laurence told New Idea: "We are constantly aware of how lucky we are to be together for so long. We have had tremendous highs and tremendous lows. And we have worked very hard to build something together." He has admitted, though, that he once deliberately tried to get himself fired from Changing Rooms by creating a deliberately erotic room. He said: "I remember sitting there with Carol at the end of it, and she's going, 'Well, that's it then?' and I went, 'Yeah, I think that's definitely the last, they're not going to have me back after that'." Yet the couple ultimately ended up loving the room, which completely and utterly mended their sex life.
Carol Smillie
BBC presenter Carol Smillie has experienced a striking transformation since her Changing Rooms days - completely reinventing her career path. She qualified as a humanist celebrant with the Humanist Society Scotland in 2018, now leading meaningful ceremonies for families and their loved ones. Carol looks virtually unrecognisable from her modelling era, now sporting brunette locks and a full fringe. Her last regular presenting position was on Finding Scotland's Heroes, which aired between 2013 and 2014.
Handy Andy
Known off-screen as Andy Kane, Handy Andy was a cherished fixture of the popular 90s programme, and after the BBC series' finale, he went on to feature in its American version - Trading Spaces. He is now happily settled down with his wife, Geraldine, and the couple share four children together.
Anna Ryder Richardson
While Anna remained a much-loved face on Changing Rooms and appeared on I'm A Celeb in 2007, by 2008 she had made a complete career change, snapping up a Pembrokeshire zoo for £1 million. Tragedy would later follow after she filmed a series of documentaries, including Anna's Welsh Zoo and Chaos at the Zoo. In 2012, a falling tree left a mother and her three year old son injured, leading to Anna facing health and safety charges. She was cleared of all wrongdoing, with no evidence found connecting her to tree management, which had been her husband's responsibility. She offloaded the zoo in 2018 and made the move to France.
Elizabeth Wagstaff
In 2000 Liz was sentenced to prison for one year after she lied to her fellow friends and designers on Changing Rooms about having cancer in order to get £55,000. A hearing at Inner London Crown Court - where she admitted charges of obtaining money and property by deception - heard that Wagstaff had claimed she needed the money for medical treatment in the United States. But instead she had spent the cash on designer clothes to impress her boyfriend, who liked his women to dress well.
