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As the co-creator and presenter of Most Haunted, Yvette Fielding no doubt thought it was wonderful publicity when she discovered her home was preyed upon by numerous spirits from the past.
'Oh yes, the house is haunted,' she said of her historic country house, whose 'guests' included the spirit of a Cavalier called Charles Deacon - murdered by the Roundheads during the English Civil War - and two small children called Master Benjamin and Elizabeth.
Have her words come back to haunt her? I ask because Yvette, 57, who was the youngest ever presenter of Blue Peter when she joined the BBC children's programme in 1987 at the age of 18, is struggling to sell the Cheshire property.
The paranormal investigator has been forced to slash the asking price by more than £300,000. She and her husband, TV director Karl Beattie, put the 16th century Tudor house on the market for £1.35million last year, but they have now dropped it to £1million.
'Not everyone wants to live in a haunted house,' a property expert tells me.
The former I'm a Celebrity star had told how a dining table flew across the room and she had found kitchen chairs stacked on a table in a pyramid. She even performed seances in a garden shed.
Paranormal investigator Yvette Fielding says her 16th century country house is haunted and has since had to slash its asking price by more than £300,000 (pictured at home in 2019)
She says the Grade II-listed house (pictured) is no longer haunted after she gave it a blessing
She says the Grade II-listed house is, however, no longer haunted after she gave it a blessing.
Period features include a minstrel gallery and the sprawling 15-acre estate also has a private lake, 'enchanting' woodland, stables, a paddock and riding arena. The 3,836 sq ft five-bedroom property, a former gentleman's hunting lodge, also has a ground floor snug, workshop, third-floor office and summerhouse.
Yvette is planning to move to the West Country after falling in love with Devon when she owned a holiday cottage there.
Dance is on the menu for Nadiya
Nadiya Bychkova, 36, was seen dancing at Club 55 in St Tropez, alongside their house band
She was recently replaced on Strictly Come Dancing by fellow Ukrainian Aleksandra Isaeva, 22
She's been replaced on Strictly Come Dancing by fellow Ukrainian Aleksandra Isaeva, 22, but Nadiya Bychkova is determined to 'keep dancing'.
Nadiya, 36, who was axed in a mass cull of professional dancers, commanded attention at the weekend in Club 55 in St Tropez, where she was spotted dancing and swishing in a pale blue dress alongside the house band ToTem at the French restaurant.
Nadiya shared a video online, saying: 'Point of view, you said you'd have a quiet lunch at Club, then the band showed up.'
The BBC has axed Celebrity Mastermind and Blankety Blank, but Ken Bruce believes PopMaster, a hit transfer from radio to Channel 4, will continue to appeal to smarter viewers.
'We've always in this country liked a quiz and I think we don't like quizzes that are insultingly easy,' the former Radio 2 DJ says. 'Only Connect is a big success, and that is really quite fiendish at times. PopMaster, I hope, will carry on being on the higher end of the quality of quizzes.'
Party comes first for Burnham's spin doctor
Grace Pritchard, Andy Burnham's new spin doctor, has already caught the eye of Westminster insiders.
'I like that she has no qualms about using a glamorous photo of herself in a party dress, holding a champagne flute, on her X profile,' says William Cash, editor of The Mace.
Self-described 'Yorkshire lass' Grace Pritchard is the PM's new No10 political spokesperson
'I am not suggesting in any way that Burnham's new political spokes-person - who describes herself on the social media site as a 'Yorkshire lass' - may be any sort of party girl,' he adds.
Perish the thought!
Young Poirot not for me, gripes Havers
As the BBC prepares to explore the sexuality of Agatha Christie's enigmatic confirmed bachelor detective Hercule Poirot in a forthcoming six-part drama, Hercule, TV veteran Nigel Havers admits to being unimpressed with prequels.
'I sometimes wish we could think of something new,' says The Charmer star. A 'huge fan' of Christie's Poirot books, Havers, 74, adds: 'They're inventing this. She didn't write about young Poirot.
'They [industry executives] think, 'What's really popular? We've done all the stories, let's go back in time'.'
Philip's pride and joy wins at Cowes
This would have made Prince Philip proud.
The boat given to him and Queen Elizabeth as a wedding gift by the Island Sailing Club on the Isle of Wight was triumphant at the Cowes regatta.
Bluebottle, a traditional wooden vessel, was restored to full race condition by Cowes boat-builder David Heritage. It won in the Dragon class under skipper Graham Bailey.
Bluebottle, the boat given to Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth as a wedding gift by the Island Sailing Club on the Isle of Wight was triumphant at the Cowes regatta
Philip sailed the boat competitively for years and often took it out with a young Prince Charles
He tells me: 'Cowes is my favourite regatta. It requires skills above those needed in Olympic-style racing. It would be lovely if the current royals came aboard and had a go.'
Philip sailed the boat competitively for years and took it out frequently with Prince Charles.
Wham! China doc rapped...
The new documentary, Wham! 10 Days In China, has been enjoyed by fans of the 1980s pop duo, but it's left Katie Summers horrified.
Her late father, Jazz Summers, managed the band with Simon Napier-Bell, who, she claims, is taking too much credit. 'It was difficult to watch so much of the story told from Simon's perspective, hearing, 'I did this', and 'I did that', while my dad's contribution was entirely left out,' she complains.
'Aside from a co-producer credit - which obviously came from his idea to film the entire journey all those years ago - there was no acknowledgement of the role he played.'