Kirstie and Phil reveal 'what happens when the wheels come off' on Location, Location, Location anniversary special - and FINALLY broach the question that's been on everybody's lips

Daily Mail​

14-05-2025

'Our relationship's lasted longer than most marriages,' Phil Spencer reminds Kirstie Allsopp, his Location, Location, Location co-presenter of 25 years, in a new programme marking the show's quarter-century milestone.
Yet the sentimental moment is brought to an abrupt end when Phil adds, 'probably because we've never slept together' - a quip that sets the tone for 'Kirstie & Phil: Bleeps, Bloops & Best Bits'.
His remark finally put paid to the question the pair are often asked. Kirsty then further consolidation the point by saying they had never been a couple.
The two TV presenters agreed that their time together has actually been 'great fun', Phil, 55, and Kirstie, 53, cheerfully agree - but that's not to say it's been free from the faux pas that inevitably pepper any long partnership.
In Channel 4 's amusing trip down memory lane, which aired this evening at 10pm, the pair took great pleasure in revisiting the hilarious moments which landed on the 'cutting-room floor'.
From sibling-like taunting to slapstick humour, including a very near miss with a hidden trapdoor, the 20-minute show revealed 'what happens when the wheels come off'.
And, crucially, it also provided a definitive answer to the question that's been on the tip of viewers' tongues for the past two-and-a-half decades.
'We have never been an item - but we are very good friends, most of the time,' Kirstie declares.
Fans of the house-hunting show would, of course, be forgiven for thinking otherwise - the presenters' on-screen chemistry is undeniable while their playful banter is even better.
Moving between the current day, with Phil and Kirstie sitting together reminiscing about the last 25 years, and shocking clips from previous episodes, the programme showcased 'belly laughs and bungled lines'.
When, during filming for an episode of Location, Location, Location, Kirstie interrupted Phil's introduction, complaining that he sounded like he was ready to shoot himself, the pair laughed it off before Kirstie went into drama teacher mode and told her co-star to 'ramp it up'.
There was also a period when Kirstie was 'permanently whacking' Phil - something she stopped doing only when his sister complained.
Phil, however, gave as good as he got in the show, teasing Kirstie about her 'habitual potty mouth', a claim backed up with an expletive-filled montage.
'Why am I standing in a woodyard on the motorway in the p****** rain?' Kirstie exclaimed during one particularly challenging day of filming.
'Kirstie & Phil: Bleeps, Bloops & Best Bits' was equally packed with a number of highly unfortunate moments - which were nevertheless amusing.
Among the hijinks, Phil fell backwards off a tiny, girls' bike one day and got stuck to a wrought-iron garden chair on another.
On a third occasion, the pair were waiting at a train station when Phil asked his co-presenter if she'd ever smelt ice cream.
Before Kirstie knew it, Phil had shoved her vanilla cone in her face leaving a splattering of the sweet treat across her nose.
It seems neither of the co-presenters ever shied away from having fun at work. Both jumped at opportunities to bounce on property owners' trampolines while Phil gleefully enjoyed playing with a football when he pair were meant to be filming.
A desperate Kirstie pleaded: 'Stop it! It's like being with my boys.'
Yet, no less amusing than Phil and Kirstie's unique dynamic were the house viewings themselves.
Kirstie readily admitted that viewings 'can go wrong in a million different ways', from taking house-hunters to a property they've already seen - and rejected - to almost slipping through a trapdoor that had been carpeted over.
On another occasion, Kirstie took a house-hunter to a property whose ceiling had fallen in, leaving it looking more like a building site than a dream home.
And then there were the times when the viewers were sorely disappointed by the houses they'd been taken to see.
One man didn't mince his words when, utterly unimpressed by a property's exterior, said: 'It could be Buckingham Palace inside, it doesn't matter.'
Similarly, a woman who was shown a home with low ceilings and wooden beans declared: 'I feel like I've been put in a coffin.'
But, while there have undoubtedly been times when Phil and Kirstie have got it wrong, there have also been regrettable moments when 'the property gods are angry' and the co-presenters have had to 'expect the unexpected'.
During filming one day, Kirstie was forced to ask members of the TV crew to 'Google wasp sting' while on another occasion she was struck down by an 'obstacle', namely a fence she'd missed.
Yet, a 'bleeps and bloops' programme about a show that's been running for 25 years would be incomplete if it didn't recall the presenters' fashion faux pas.
Not only was Phil forced to do a viewing in trousers that were ripped down the back - a mishap that Kirstie delighted in and even pointed out to their house-hunters - but he was also instructed to lie down on the floor in a brand new suit.
For her part, Kirstie is 'haunted' by some of her fashion choices since Location, Location, Location first aired in the year 2000.
She fiercely regrets 'that fringe' from the early days - 'what was I thinking?' - along with the businesslike skirt suits she used to wear - 'not me'.
Despite racing through all the things that went wrong, tonight's show equally made it clear why Location, Location, Location has lasted so long.
More than once Phil has moaned that Kirstie's 'mad' - while she has never missed an opportunity to tell him he's 'failed' - but the truth is that the co-presenters share a special bond having 'grown up' together.
Describing Kirstie as 'irreplaceable, absolutely irreplaceable', Phil admitted that people often ask him if his co-star is as 'scary as she seems'.
Meanwhile, Kirstie, whose most scary trait may be her penchant for knocking down walls, is always asked if Phil is 'as nice as he seems'.
And, while the co-presenters agreed that they 'bring different things to the party', it's surely the fact that they both 'want to have fun' that has brought them - and the show - such success.