A Place In The Sun presenters ‘wear same clothes for six straight days’ due to one strict TV rule
It's no wonder A Place in the Sun has proved hugely popular with viewers over the years. House hunters are shown around beautiful villas and apartments in exotic locations with sunny climates, offering a perfect taste of paradise on our TV screens. But, according to one of the show's hosts, there's lots that happens behind-the-scenes that the rest of us really don't have a clue about - and you'll be shocked!
Late last year, Jean Johansson, who has been a presenter on A Place in the Sun since 2018, exclusively invited OK! into her home in Ayrshire and spilled the beans on the property series - including one very strict TV rule. The star laughed: "“If there was a thing called ‘smell-o-vision’, we would not be on air. Because we want each show to look like everything happens in one day, we all wear the same outfits for six days straight. So the big secret of the show is that we stink.”
Another thing viewers don’t see is just how close Jean gets to those taking part in the show with the crew and househunters often spending a week filming one episode.
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“We grow close during those five or six days and we love a party. If you finish work at 5pm on a beach, there’s no way you’re heading back to your hotel room. We often go for dinner and a few drinks. I’ve made good friends over the years.
“There was one American couple in particular, Ryan and Steve, who were buying a place in Gran Canaria. They put in an offer on a property, so we went out for cocktails to celebrate. Let’s just say the morning after wasn’t fun and watching it back was worse. My sister texted me to say, ‘You don’t look too good in that scene'."
As well as hosting the hit Channel 4 property show, the star has popped up on Celebrity MasterChef, is a regular on This Morning’s competition segments and won the coveted Celebrity Mastermind trophy in 2022.
But her career hasn’t been without its setbacks and Jean admitted that although she was thrilled to return for another year, she initially didn't land her gig on A Place in the Sun when she first tried out for it.
“When I first auditioned for the show, I didn’t get it and I was completely devastated,” she revealed. “My agent at the time told me the opportunity would never come up again. Presenters never leave – look at Jasmine Harman, Laura Hamilton and Scarlette Douglas. But I just had a feeling that it would happen for me, and it did.”
Jean, who began her career in 1998 on CBBC and The Disney Channel, said it’s the “wonderful” house hunters that make hosting the show such a joy.
“I have so much respect for them – they go for it. A lot of us talk about moving abroad but never do it. But they do and they tend to have amazing back stories too.”
