
Changing Rooms has been cancelled again by Channel 4 after returning to ‘mediocre ratings’.
The hit BBC makeover programme premiered in 1996 with Carol Smilie at the lead, with a team of interior designers collaborating alongside neighbours, friends, or relatives to alter a loved one’s house.
It was resurrected in 2020, with new host Anna Richardson and quirky designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen returning to put his own stamp on people’s homes.
However, despite great fanfare and excitement, the show’s ratings did not reach the levels seen during its heyday in the 1990s.
A Channel 4 spokesperson confirmed the news, explaining: ‘Laurence will be back later this year in ‘Outrageous Homes With Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen, so he won’t be off our screens for long.’
However, they still showed immense pride at the reboot, adding: ‘We are extremely proud of our reboot of ‘Changing Rooms’ and would like to thank everyone involved with the series.’

An insider told The Sun the cancellation was down to ‘mediocre ratings’.
‘It is a blow for everyone who worked on the reboot. A lot of passion went into making the first two series but it wasn’t to be,’ they said.
Laurence expressed his enthusiasm for the second series in an interview last year.
He said: ‘Like Arnie in ‘The Terminator’ and Jack in ‘The Shining’, ‘Changing Rooms’ is back smashing down the doors of the nation’s most ‘meh’ interiors to let the colour and excitement of full fat decorating in.
‘Having loved every minute of last year’s revival that coincided with The Changing Rooms Silver Jubilee, I’ve got some spectacular, nay superhuman, transformations planned.
Changing Rooms is available to stream on All4.