Bridge2 charity founder Escapes to the Country

Hoping to move to the UK to be closer to her children and grandson, Ms Griffith, who founded the Bridge2 charities, has spent the last seven months searching for a house.

After a second likely purchaser pulled out of buying her house in Guernsey, she saw Escape to the Country on the TV and just decided to apply.

‘Outside of campaigning for GreenAcres and my charity work, it’s the best thing I have ever done,’ she said.

‘It was true to the programme and not fake at all.’

Just one day after she applied, she was asked to film videos about herself in Guernsey, due to the high cost of bringing a film crew over, and was soon accepted onto the programme.

‘From there it was a whirlwind,’ she said.

Although dissatisfied with the first couple of houses, Ms Griffith loved exploring familiar British countryside.

‘It was kind of magical in a weird way because I was going to towns I know well but from a different point of view,’ she said.

‘I was taking in things which I wouldn’t usually take in, which gave me a really different perspective.’

She said she had given up hope of finding a house, instead just enjoying the experience.

‘The second was in the most beautiful village – it was just rolling hills and beautiful fields – but the house was absolutely awful,’ she added.

‘I was totally decided that they would not find me what I wanted.’

However, she was delighted the ‘mystery house’ in Knighton, Powys, Wales, was just what she was looking for.

In a beautiful location, just three minutes from the high street, she decided the house’s basement would be perfect to convert into an up-market bed and breakfast, a business she had four years’ experience of running in Guernsey.

‘The views are fabulous.

‘It’s a house with business opportunities and the inside has just been done up,’ she said.

‘I think it would have cost around £2m. here because of the size of the garden and the views are so beautiful, but it was not even a quarter of the price, which was unbelievable.’

After 42 years in Guernsey, she was ready for the move, and has finally sold her house to a ‘lovely’ couple.

‘Now is the time to have a new life – it’s very exciting.

‘I’m very optimistic.’

Her episode will air sometime after September.