Alan Carr exposes what happens when it all goes wrong on Interior Design Masters-Emily Bashforth-Entertainment – Metro

Alan Carr has exposed a secret of Interior Design Masters… (Picture: BBC/Darlow Smithson Productions)

While most people might welcome a makeover to their home or business, not everyone loves the outcome on Alan Carr’s Interior Design Masters.

So, what happens when it all goes wrong?

Well, the comedian has revealed all…

The premise of the show is simple: 10 talented designers, one life-changing contract up for grabs.

Each episode sees Alan and interiors guru Michelle Ogundehin pit a group of designers against one another and test their abilities in various challenges.

Whether it’s redesigning a hair salon, a restaurant, or a showhome, there’s always a client brief to be met while the contestants also attempt to showcase their passion and dazzling designs.

The makeover show sees a group of 10 designers trusted to transform a space to showcase their skills – but they also have to stick to a brief (Picture: BBC/Darlow Smithson Productions)

However, Alan has confessed that the results aren’t always warmly received, telling Richard Osman that, when the client is unhappy, the team will redecorate afterwards.

Speaking as a guest on Richard’s The Rest is Entertainment podcast – which he hosts alongside Marina Hyde, Alan was asked by the former Pointless host: ‘What happens if the makeover is awful? Does the production company pay to put it right?’

Alan replied: ‘Yes, sometimes the people who own the shop or hairdressers or the hotel room really hate what they’ve done.

‘What we do is we go back and paint it back to how it originally was so no one is offended.’

Mariana then commented on how interior TV shows have changed over the years.

Not every client is happy with the finished result (Picture: BBC/Darlow Smithson Productions)

Sometimes, the team has to go back in and put everything back to how it was (Picture: BBC/Darlow Smithson Productions)

‘I have to say, in the old days with things like Changing Rooms, I think they just left you with it,’ she said.

‘I think you had to sign the release form and, no offence to the designers in that because there was always that incredible time pressure element, they had to, like, glue gun and staple gun a lot of stuff… and people were left with these things!’

She recalled: ‘I remember once reading an interview with a woman who was so horrified by what her neighbours had wished upon her in one of those shows that she thought, “Right, I’m gonna have to research how to put this back myself,” and she got so into it that she discovered her passion and ended up becoming an interior designer!’

This isn’t the first time that secrets of an interiors show have been exposed.

In the past, those who have worked on shows such as 60 Minute Makeover – in which a house is transformed in, you guessed it, 60 minutes – have revealed that it’s all a ‘lie’.

The likes of 60 Minute Makeover have been exposed for being ‘fake’ or ‘staged’ in the past (Picture: ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

Professional builder Craig Phillip – who won the first-ever series of Big Brother and also helped on 60 Minute Makeover – claimed once that it’s all staged.

He told the Daily Star: ‘It happens in the time that you see us recording it but it’s the planning and preparation off camera that you don’t always see to make us be able to do it in that time frame.

‘Let’s face it, what you see in the house happens in the 60 minutes because we shoot it in two 30-minute halves.’

The former reality star added to the outlet that work would already have been started before the cameras started shooting.

‘For example, for a kitchen, we are ripping out a kitchen and we’re ripping it out on camera, they only need to use 20 or 30 seconds of that kitchen being dismantled.

‘So off camera, we will go in, we will isolate all the boarded stuff, the electric, the gas, the water underneath disconnect it, put caps on everything, making sure it’s all safe.

‘The kitchen tops, we would have loosened all the plugs and undone all the legs.’

He joked that ‘on camera when they blow the whistle and we start and we go in and look like we’re Superman’.

Watch Alan Carr’s Interior Design Masters on BBC and BBC iPlayer.

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