To The Manor Bowen — Season 1, Episode 3: Builders
Reality • 60 min • 1 season, 8 episodes
Episode synopsis
Laurence and Jackie Llewelyn-Bowen have moved out of London to a 400 year old manor house in the country with their daughters Cecile (11) and Hermione (8) to escape the pressures of celebrity life and live the rural dream. Laurence is planning to remodel the entire house while the family are living there, meaning they are preparing for at least 6 months of living with the builders. As the builders arrive to rip the guts out of the house Laurence escapes to a celebrity appearance leaving Jackie holding the fort. But when Jackie escapes to London leaving Laurence in charge – disaster! Laurence double books Sunday with two big photo-shoots, and when Lady Llewellyn-Bowen returns to find she has a working weekend everyone takes cover! Looks like celebrity pressures just followed them to the countryside. The Llewellyn Bowen’s kiss and make up just in time for a romantic night at the Ritz to celebrate their 18th wedding anniversary.
About To The Manor Bowen
To The Manor Bowen follows Changing Rooms design guru Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and his wife Jackie, their two idiosyncratic kids, batty old grandma and their eccentric entourage to the heart of the English countryside in their quest to buy a grand new home. Jackie is tired of the London celebrity treadmill and is on a mission to get her family and staff to move to the country in search of the simple life. Laurence, a Londoner through and through, is less enthusiastic. But undeterred Jackie finds herself a run down 17th century manor house in the West Country and buys it. Luckily Laurence loves it too, and put his reputation, finances and family’s happiness on the line by moving everyone into this rundown rural ruin while they attempt to transform it into a magnificent family home. The beautifully surprising and refreshingly unpredictable Llewelyn-Bowens open their normally tightly-bolted celebrity doors to give us a peek at their unconventional and unruly family life.