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Alan Titchmarsh lands new ITV show

Alan Titchmarsh has landed a new show on ITV.

The 71-year-old presenter is set to host ‘Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh’ on Sunday mornings, when he’ll be celebrating all that is great about the British countryside, art, crafts, manufacturing and produce.

Looking forward to his new TV role, he said: "I’m delighted to have the opportunity to celebrate the British countryside and the people who look after it.

"It is all too easy to forget the contribution to our daily lives that those who are skilled at country crafts, looking after our landscape, our wildlife and our farm animals contribute to our daily life.

"’Love Your Weekend’ is an entertaining celebration of rural life and country matters and I’m chuffed to bits to be presenting it."

Meanwhile, Alan previously rubbished the idea he’s especially "vulnerable" to the coronavirus pandemic.

The gardener insisted he feels fit and healthy, and couldn’t understand why his health was not being judged on the basis of his medical history, rather than his age.

He said: "There are people in their 40s less fit than I am. I think really it should be judged on your medical history rather than on your number."

Alan also slammed the decision to close garden centres across the country at the start of the lockdown.

Although the restrictions have been eased, Alan warned that the original decision threatened an industry worth £24 billion to the economy.

Speaking in May, he explained: "I’m just relieved that the government has finally understood the importance of nurseries and garden centres to anyone in possession of even a scrap of earth.

"Our gardens, balconies and window boxes have been our salvation over these last weeks.

"Garden centres will also provide a much-needed outlet for all those British growers who have had to destroy so much of their stock.

"At last their remaining plants will have homes to go to, and our lives will be all the richer."

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