The Chase star Jenny Ryan has confirmed she is still searching for a new house despite falling in love with a cottage on BBC's Escape to the Country. Eager to move "back home" to the country near Bolton, Jenny and her boyfriend Thom got help from presenter Jules Hudson to find their dream rural escape on Celebrity Escape to the Country.
After moving to London to chase TV stardom and joining the ranks of The Chase, the quiz whizz made the capital her base. But it was a charming Lancashire cottage featuring stunning woodland, good transport and travel connections for shooting The Chase, that caught the couple's eye.
She wanted to book a second viewing with Jenny's parents before making a bid on the £695,000 property. The episode was re-aired as a repeat on BBC One on Friday (September 13) and led to viewers and fans asking The Vixen for an update.
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Jenny told her Instagram followers she didn't manage to snap up the stone cottage after all. As she asked for another look, the house was snapped up by another buyer, leaving Jenny to quip "the search continues".
Jenny Ryan opened up about her hunt for the dream home on Instagram: "So my episode of Escape to the Country was on again this week, and so many people have been asking me, what happened next. I think it's quite clear, if you've watched the show that house number two was the one that I absolutely loved.
"What I really wanted to do was to take my parents to have a viewing and see what they thought by the time we could arrange that, someone else had put an offer in on the place. I mean, it's a great place, so absolutely no wonder somebody snapped it up."
Despite missing out, she remains upbeat: "Hope they're having a lovely time there. So for me, the search continues."
During the Escape to the Country episode, Jenny Ryan loved the property and its surroundings. She said: "I'm hearing the bird song now and I know my stepdad would be in his element here because he's a keen bird watcher. He's travelled the world looking at birds.
"It's something that we've done as a family for quite a few years and it's part of that going back and enjoying nature.
"There's so much more potential for that, for sharing a new stage of life with this property, because it's got something for all of us and we can share it out more equally."
