Angel Strawbridge sets record straight on 'split' from Dick after leaked audio incident
Angel Strawbridge has addressed the "tsunami of untruths" she heard about herself and Dick Strawbridge's marriage following her on-set row with a cameraman while filming for Escape To The Chateau. Last year, a leaked clip heard the 46-year-old shouting at her colleague, whom she branded a "f****d up c**t".
After a year-long silence, she finally addresses the incident publicly earlier this week while speaking to Elizabeth Day on her How To Fail podcast. During the chat, Angel blasted the "disgusting" colleague, whom she claimed had behaved inappropriately on set towards her, Dick, and their two children.
The mother-of-two also alleges that the cameraman set her up and deleted what he had said to her before she "saw red" in the expletive audio. The leaked clip was released around the same time the family had just finished wrapping up their final scenes with Channel 4, after nine series.
While trying to focus on their next chapter, however, Angel said she had developed "a superpower" to block out all the lies that were being told about her and Dick. Part of the false claims included her and Dick allegedly breaking up after their show ended.
Discussing that period of time, she explained on the podcast: "What was the saddest [part] for me was it started a tsunami of faux truths and there was everything in there from us being bankrupt, from us moving out of the Chateau, we were millionaires I think the week after, me and Dick had broken up, it was absolutely everything.
Dick and Angel Strawbridge
"And I think we're so trained not to answer anything, 'you don't explain, you don't complain' because once you answer one thing, you have to answer everything and actually when this all exploded, we had just started our wedding season.
"Literally, I'm in bed putting Dorothy (their daughter) to sleep and we've got a house full of guests and I'm getting messages from journalists wanting comments etc.
"In a way, I had to have a superpower and I had to box this all up because the people that were getting married at the Chateau were the most important thing to me that weekend."
Despite the split rumours, Angel and Dick remain happily married after tying the knot at their home back in 2015.
Dick and Angel Strawbridge
The pair first met in 2010 at a mutual friend's 40th birthday party, when Angel was 32 and Dick was 52, before love swiftly blossomed between them.
Angel said her "heart stopped" when she first laid eyes on Dick and "completely forgot" what she was doing at the time.
With the party being full of people however, the pair didn't get to speak to each other properly until six weeks later when their paths crossed again.
"It was on Celebrity Masterchef and he did this pop-up restaurant," she recalled to Elizabeth. "We just sat and talked after him cooking for this huge big party of guests.
"Everyone wanted to talk to Dick, to congratulate him and talk about the food and he just came and sat next to me and we just talked all night."
On what drew her to Dick initially, she continued to gush: "He's so passionate about life, about everything. He's a story teller and he's got a certain energy.
"Honestly, even now he's got this aura about him of authority. It makes my hairs go on end, he's a very strong, powerful man, that is very kind as well and he'll do anything for anyone."
Secret France with Dick and Angel continues tonight at 7pm on Channel 4.