A Place In The Sun presenter admits 'I underestimated chaos' after struggling with move to Spain
A Place In The Sun presenter admits 'I underestimated chaos' after struggling with move to Spain
The presenter opened up about moving her family to Spain and renovating their new home
Jasmine Harman has co-presented A Place In The Sun since 2004
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A Place In the Sun presenter Jasmine Harman has opened up about the "upheaval" of relocating her family to Spain and the challenges they faced while renovating their new home, all of which are set to be featured in an upcoming Channel 4 programme, Jasmine's Renovation In The Sun.
In an exclusive chat with The Express, the TV host and mother-of-two admitted she'd underestimated quite how challenging it would be.
Jasmine said: "I underestimated the just the amount of upheaval of moving to Spain in the first place with the family and the dog and everything else.
"And then the buying of the house we bought was complicated. Normally my house hunts have a very easy time going through - the conveyancing and everything else.
"Ours was very complicated. And now we're doing the renovation. So it is complete chaos." For the latest TV and showbiz gossip sign up to our newsletter .
Jasmine and her family have been renovating their Spanish home
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This 15-episode series will chronicle Jasmine, her husband Jon, and their two children as they dedicate a year to turning the Spanish property into their ideal family abode.
When asked how she felt about the public seeing the mayhem, she said: "I'm not worried about it, but people will definitely wonder 'what is she thinking?'".
"It's not just the renovation, which is something that I've never done before in another country so that's got its own challenges.
"But then filming it as well is just as an extra layer of added pressure," she acknowledged.
"So it's all fine, it's all doable. Everything's all fun and games here all the time.
"There's never a dull moment. But there's a lot of space plate spinning going on. The little things getting little bits and bobs done, like taking out a wall or changing kitchen, that kind of stuff is really quite easy.
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"But ours is a much bigger renovation project, and obviously we're living in the house all the while with the family.
"For us, it was there weren't any really other options, because we couldn't stretch to doing the whole renovation, but at the same time renting, or living somewhere else so it just, it's just the way it had to be," she said, as reported by the Express.
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