Kevin McCloud has spoken out for the first time since the sale of the property described by fans as the "saddest ever" home to appear on Grand Designs.

Chesil Cliff House, located in Saunton (near Braunton) in Devon, first appeared on Channel 4's Grand Designs back in 2019.

Husband and wife Edward and Hazel Short appeared on the show with "wildly optimistic" plans for a "shining white art deco lighthouse on a rugged beautiful clifftop".

However, it all turned into a "disaster" Grand Designs host Kevin McCloud explained.

McCloud said: "We filmed the project over, what, six years, and, you know, it's a disaster.

"Ed's marriage falls apart, at one point his daughters are very distraught, and it's all hugely risky.

"He borrows enormously and in the end he can't sell the other property he's built and they've demolished the old family house, and he's had to resort to third party investment, and he's sort of losing the project.

"We get to the end of that film and the things unfinished, and it's a disaster.

"My final piece to camera was all about the........

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