Homes Under the Hammer’s Martin Roberts has shared all the secrets from the show – and there has been a lot of mess over the years…
The telly favourite even has one rule when filming the BBC One show which is “never, ever, ever look in the fridge”. After hosting the hit daytime show for 20 years, Martin has absolutely seen it all.
He’s travelled up and down the country and has inspected over 2,000 properties that have been snapped up at auction. But he’s faced a lot of shockers.
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Speaking to The Sun, Martin shared some of the weirdest experiences he’s had during filming, explaining that in one property he found a home owner who kept 39 cats in one room for ten years and never let them out.
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The show has seen all types of buildings be turned into habitable dwellings from an ambulance station, astrology shop and water tower to a working men’s club. In fact, one wild home even saw the crew mortified after thinking they found a “dead body”.
He explained that the director went into the house and discovered a “dead body”, which they all saw lying underneath a white sheet. However, once the body started snoring they realised it wasn’t as bad as they once thought.
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Martin said: “There had been complications with the completion of the sale and on the morning we arrived to do our filming the family had left in such a rush they’d forgotten to take grandad with them.”
There have been 1,475 episodes have been made and Martin has appeared in more than 1,000 of them. One which turned out to be rather a spooky affair. On some occasions they fled the house so quickly after feeling like there was a “ghost” in the property.
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He told the publication: ” We were interviewing in a bedroom and halfway through a light bulb fell out of the ceiling socket. But instead of landing where gravity should have taken it, the bulb fell down in an arc.
“The estate agent told us afterwards that the previous owner had died in the room we had been in and he had been paranoid about intruders, which is why he had all the security cameras. The dead man really didn’t like us being there. And he told us.”
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