It's not even an original concept, is it? You don't imagine with things as they are at the moment that anybody would be interested in yet another telly programme about doing up houses, even if they're B&Bs, so not proper houses that anybody in their right mind would want to live in.
The original bit of the concept appears to be that Trev wants my dad to pay him what he calls a 'facility fee' for him agreeing to use our house to do the programme, instead of one of the others he looked at. Turns out that what I thought about him looking at the other two first before he got to ours was right then, except one of the other B&B owners - he said he couldn't tell us who it was for confidentiality reasons, but I definitely thought it was woman's voice - actually rang him on his mobile while he was talking to dad and offered him what Trev said was 'a substantial sum' for doing it round at hers. When he said he was in negotiations with another owner, she doubled her offer apparently, there and then! He said he'd get back to her before he left St Ives tomorrow, but as he said to dad, that's the sort of dog eat dog business television is.
Trev really wants to do the programme round ours I can tell, he just thinks it's got better potential than this other place. As it's a programme about doing places up, I can imagine it has. The manky hand of Fate, giving with one and taking away with the other!
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