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Escape To The Chateau's Dick Strawbridge, 65, reveals the question he was scared to ask wife Angel, 46, on their first date

The TV star was 50 when the couple first met and had two adult children, both then in their 20s, from his first marriage

But speaking to Loose Women anchor Kaye Adams on her How to be 60 podcast, Dick admitted he tried to end the relationship soon after they met because he thought that the 19 year-age gap between them was too much. The first series followed Dick and Angel's quest to restore the derelict 45 room chateau from its uninhabitable state – nobody had lived there for the previous 40 years - by installing running water, heating and electricity Dick, 65, and Angel, 46, found fame in the documentary series Escape to the Chateau, which tracked their renovation of a run-down 19th century castle in rural France

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