Linda Barker is still haunted by teapots disaster on Changing Rooms
Linda Barker still isnt healed over the teapots (Picture: Getty/BBC) Daytime TV is a coveted source..
Daytime TV is a coveted source of the bizarre and horrendous, but few clips soar above the painful scale than the Changing Rooms teapot crash of 2000.
Dont recall? In one of the shows most renowned episodes, designer Linda Barker created free-standing shelves to accommodate a large collection of valuable teapots, only for the shelves to collapse moments after it was completed.
The clip has entered the daytime TV fiasco hall of fame, and Barker has since detailed how the incident still haunts her almost 20 years later.
Responding to someone sharing pictures of the smashed teapots on Twitter, Barker wrote: The crash that will echo forever…
Asked how it happened, she added: Just Google “Changing Rooms + Teapots” and share my pain…
Petition to send a casket of teapots to Barker on the 20th anniversary? Dont let us down.
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Changing Rooms ran for 17 series on the BBC from 1996 to 2004, and was originally hosted by Carol Smillie, before designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen took over in 2003.
Smillie spoke about some of the secrets on the show to mark the shows 20th anniversary, including dirty discoveries and secret Handy Andys.