Telly gardener Alan Titchamarsh, who last year made an enemy of North Korea, is in a tizz over the use of fake wisteria outside the vicarage on the ITV show Grantchester
Slug-slinger Alan Titchmarsh has a new nemesis – Grantchester.
The 75-year-old telly gardener, who last year made an enemy of North Korea, is in a tizz over the use of fake wisteria outside the vicarage on the ITV show.
Titch – whose hatred of slugs was last year exposed by the Daily Star – raged: “There’s one thing about Grantchester that drives me nuts… it’s the blooming wisteria outside the vicarage.
“It’s awful! It’s false, it’s artificial, it doesn’t look real.”
The horticulturalist blasted the series’ attention to detail while interviewing Grantchester actors Tessa Peake-Jones and Rishi Nair during the Love Your Weekend show.
Tessa, 67, plays devoutly religious vicarage housekeeper Sylvia Chapman on the series.
She asked Alan after his fake foliage outburst: “Why doesn’t it look real to you?”
He replied: “You can tell it’s not real.”
Alan had the same complaint about the plants on Bridgerton – calling them “awful”.
Rishi, 33, who plays Grantchester’s parish priest Alphy Kotteram, confessed about the show getting previous wisteria complaints: “It’s not the first time we’ve heard that.”
Alan asked them to pass on his moan to show bosses.
He added: “We’ve seen series nine, but you’ve finished series 10, so it’s going to be in that as well, isn’t it?
“Wisteria doesn’t flower all year round. It flowers generally in about May/June.”
Tessa said the series was set in early summer, but Alan stressed it was the fact Grantchester’s wisteria looked fake that wound him up.
Grantchester originally followed Sidney Chambers (played by James Norton) – a Cambridgeshire clergyman who becomes entangled in probing a series of mysterious crimes in his small village of Grantchester.
Sidney was later succeeded by William Davenport (Tom Brittney), before former Hollyoaks actor Rishi joined the cast in 2024 as vicar Alphy Kotteram.
The Grantchester cast have already finished filming season 10, which will be shown in the US later this year and in the UK next Spring.
Grantchester fans have also had a gripe with the show after it returned in January.
The new season involved DI Geordie Keating (Robson Green) and Reverend Will Davenport returning to solve another spate of murders.
But the departure of fan favourite Will caused uproar among viewers, who flooded social media with protests over the decision.
We last year revealed how North Korea’s state broadcaster has censored Alan’s jeans – blurring them out on air because they were viewed as too “western imperialist”.
It came as Alan doubled down on his war with slugs.
He compared them to bed bugs after admitting he hurls the slimesters over his neighbour’s fence if he spots one in his garden.
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