Channel 4 axe Christmas favourite as star speaks on cost cuts at broadcaster
Kirstie Allsopp has spoken out after her programme Kirstie's Homemade Christmas was axed by Channel 4.
The Location, Location, Location star, 52, has announced that the show will not be on screen this year, apart from a one off episode. Fans are devastated that the series, which typically airs on weekday evenings in December, won't be on.
When quizzed by fans on when the programme would be returning this year, she revealed the sad news. On Monday, one fan tweeted her on X: "@KirstieMAllsopp when does the daily handmade Christmas show start? I love that show."
The TV star then replied: "It doesn't this year. Everyone at @Channel4 had to do some economising and our daily shows took a hit. But we’ll be back next year, and we have one lovely show at 8pm on Sunday the 10th December."
Kirstie Allsopp's show won't be on this year (Copyright Jon Boast(Channel 4 images must not be altered or manipulated in any way)CHANNEL 4 PICTURE PUBLICITY124 HORSEFERRY)However, viewers were not happy with the revelation. One said: "Devastated to find no @KirstieMAllsopp Homemade Christmas this year. My six-year-old and I binged last year’s series yesterday as the official start of Christmas but what do we do now?!"
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But Kirstie provided some comfort as she retweeted the post and replied: "We are just as sad, but there is one brand new show at 8pm on Sunday the 10th of December and it’s lovely. Plus let’s all make it clear to @Channel4 that budget cuts must fall elsewhere next year."
Back in June of this year it was revealed that the show would be taken off air this Christmas as Channel 4 tried to cut costs. Kirstie told Deadline at the time: "I know it’s not personal. We all take a hit on different things at different points in time. Hopefully, the ad market will improve and we’ll be back again."
Handmade Christmas first aired back in 2014 and Kirstie siadthat around 30 people on production would lose work as a result of the decision to axe the programme.
She said: "I am very upset for anybody — not just my colleagues, not just the lovely people that I work with — but anybody in the industry who is struggling for work. I know there are quite a few."
This comes after Kirstie was involved in an accident while filming Location, Location, Location. She fell down a flight of stairs and told her fans that she was "battered and bruised" as she was taken to the hospital in an ambulance.
She told fans: "Today is Wednesday, and it's a working day. I should be out filming Location Location Location. Except yesterday, when we were in a pub in Stoke Newington, filming a chat with our lovely house hunters Beth and Rory, I went off to the loo. Unfortunately, I got something wrong and I ended up falling down an entire flight of stairs.
"It was, I think without a doubt, the scariest thing and most painful thing I have ever done in my life and I feel immensely blessed to be lying here in bed and not having broken anything. I'm bruised and battered. I went and had an x-ray and a CT scan. And I've been looked over by a lovely doctor."
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