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A Place In The Sun’s Jonnie Irwin ‘exasperated’ as ‘mad’ buyer rejects home after warning from her crystals
A PLACE In The Sun’s Jonnie Irwin revealed he was left ‘exasperated’ as a ‘mad’ buyer rejected a potential home – after warning from her crystals.
The property expert is a regular on the Channel 4 show which helps Brits relocate to a sunshine location.
Jonnie Irwin was left ‘exasperated’ while trying to find a woman a property in Portugal[/caption]
His weird experience came as the father-of-three tried to help a woman find her perfect home in Madeira, Portugal.
Recalling the moment, Jonnie, 47, told the Express: “I suppose my most exasperated experience in recent times was a lady who wanted to buy in Madeira, because it was the closest to the lost city of Atlantis.
“I showed her a few houses and at the end of each house tour she wouldn’t say yes or no [to the property].”
He went on: “She would pull out a crystal on a bit of string and if the crystal rotated in a certain way that was a yes or a no.
The property expert is a presenter on the Channel 4 show[/caption]
Hi job is to match buyers with their ideal home abroad[/caption]
“‘Wow’, was the polite way of saying what I was thinking when we were on-screen.”
He joked: “I should have gone for wow instead of the cacophony of expletives that were going off in my mind.
“Her mum just looked at me like, ‘Yeah. She’s as mad as a box of frogs.’”
When the house hunter decided to refrain from buying any of the properties shown by Jonnie, he quipped: “I did suggest getting a different crystal.”
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At one point he admitted trying to blow on the gem to get it to go in another direction.
Despite incidents like this, the Channel 4 host says house buyers on the show have “got a right to be a bit picky”, due to the sums of money involved and the fact it is a “long-term decision”.
Viewers recently saw Jonnie snap and ask if he was “wasting my time?!”, as a couple abandoned a property halfway through the viewing.
The presenter was completely frank as he tried to help sunseekers Joanna and Scott find a home in Spain.
Jonnie’s question came as the couple viewed a property close to the coast and the pair were clearly unimpressed.
Walking into a bedroom, Jonnie asked: “What do we think size wise first of all?”
He revealed the searches don’t always go as planned[/caption]
But admitted the buyers have the ‘right to be picky’[/caption]
Joanna replied: “It’s a little small…
“Yeah, it’s not really doing it for us.”
Picking up on her lack of enthusiasm, Jonnie asked bluntly: “Am I wasting my time showing you any more of this house?”
To which Joanna quickly responded: “Yes.”
A Place in the Sun airs weekdays at 3pm on Channel 4.
