Mary Killen ?nd Giles Wood, Các lo?i ??ng h? ?eo tay n? chính hãng t?e breakout stars ?f ‘s Gogglebox, live ?n ?h?t they call the Grottage – a ?ong red-brick house ?n ? hamlet in Wiltshire, ?ith a thatched roof t?at Giles hates as water pours ?ff it ?n to his head.
Th??r hom? ?s f?ll of paintings, books, Mary’s hats and ba?k copies of Tatler. It’s the kind of house I lik?, b?t t?ey think it is tatty. They were shamed into re-upholstering a chair they sat on for Gogglebox b?c?use viewers on said it looke? dirty.
A dog, Merlin, lies on t?e sofa.
I am not her? becaus? of Gogglebox, no? in its tenth ye?r, even tho?gh the couple give perfect impersonations ?f thei? onscreen selves all day.
Giles says mad things to get Mary’s attention. ??e says ?ensible things and soothes ?im ?r gets cross. A journalist ?nd agony aunt, ?he ?s ‘a professional diplomat’. ?e is a painter who won’t paint, but spends his time in th? garden.
?hey h?ve w?itten ? book – ? miscellany of the?r lives ?nd opinions – ?alled Country Life: ? Story ?f Peaks ?nd Troughs.
Mary ?rites ?bout leaving Northern Ireland fo? Top ??ng h? n? d??i 2 tri?u England at 18, ?nd how to ?? sociable; Giles reflects ?n ?is obsession ?ith ecology ?nd ?ow not to ?e sociable. ??e t?o are coy a??ut thei? ages, ?ut are cl?arly ?n th?ir 60s.
Mary Killen ?nd Giles Wood, t?e breakout stars ?f Channel 4′? Gogglebox, live ?n w?at they call th? Grottage – a long red-brick house ?n a hamlet in Wiltshire
T?ey ar? long wed (th?y married m?re th?n 30 ye?rs ago) and contradict each other ?hile finishing ?ach ot?e?’? sentences ?? my transcript reads l?ke a ?oël Coward play.
?hen I arrive, Giles ?s o?t and Mary gives me tea ?nd a brownie.
?he is ?ery beautiful, ?nd easy to talk to. Her column, Dear Mary, ?n The Spectator, i? about keeping friends. ?hey moved f?om Chelsea to Wiltshire in 1988, sh? says, because her friend Candida Lycett Green, t?? daughter of poet Sir John Betjeman, Các lo?i ??ng h? ?eo tay n? chính hãng ?as living th?re.
‘? swapped gaiety for financial advantage. ?t ?as much cheaper to be ?ere,’ ??e sa?s, ‘and I had a crush ?n Candida, who ? thought ?as abs?lutely perfect.
? ?anted t? be in the satellite ?f h?r ?orld. It’? certainly bette? for Giles, wh? is not a city person at all. ?e would ?ave been unhappy, the children [their two daughters, Rosy and Fleur] ?ould hav? be?n unhappy, t?ey w?uld ?ave got into sex ?nd d?ne drugs at a ?oung age.’
Giles com?s in. ‘Nutty?’ ?e calls.
(Confusingly, t?ey both call each ?ther Nutty.) Mary ?ants to show m? the are?, b?t I don’t h?ve a jacket, so Giles hangs ?is sheepskin coat on me. ?he hamlet ?as a f?w sm?ll houses and t?o grand ones.
