It emerged in May 2023 that Channel 4 had cut ties with the couple, who became famous from renovating their home, the 19th-century Château de la Motte-Husson in Martigné-sur-Mayenne, France, over nine seasons of the show.
Giving her recollection of the events, which Strawbridge recalled happened about six years ago, she said: “We had so many amazing people filming Escape to the Chateau, but in this particular quite small time frame, we had someone that wasn’t particularly very nice.
“His behaviour was completely unacceptable, but it didn’t just happen in one little moment, it happened over lots of different occasions.”
She added: “He was not very nice, he was doing these weird pictures of Dick killing animals and posting them on his Instagram. He was so horrible with the children.”
She recalled one incident where the producer allegedly broke all of her children’s fishing rods.
“There was this one incident, and I actually truly believe that because he knew he was caught, I think in my heart that is why he set up this filming,” she added.
“Because the way that he was acting was how he’d never acted with me before. You don’t accidentally film someone when you’re not filming. Completely happened secretly and on purpose.”
Rant ‘makes me feel little bit sick’
Strawbridge said she had not listened back to the recording of her rant as it made her feel “a little bit sick”.
“But obviously all of my friends have, and they’re like ‘I can hear you gradually getting more angry, more angry, more angry’.
“And then I just say ‘get out of my f—ing house’. I can’t even remember what I said. I think I said a really bad word beginning with c, I think that’s how p—– off I must have been,” she said in the interview.
Strawbridge can be heard saying in the recording, which was obtained by entertainment website Deadline: “Who is that inspired by when you’re f—ing working at the chateau? Just tell me that and then you can f—ing leave and this is me f—ing angry because I think you’re a f—ed up little c—.”