Kirstie Allsopp has revealed how she once received a random FaceTime from an ex-househunter she had helped on Location, Location, Location. 

The property broadcaster, 53, starred on 25 Years of Location, Location, Location with her co-host and longtime friend, Phil Spencer, 55, on Wednesday evening. 

The pair were discussing some of the couples they had helped since the Channel 4 programme first aired in 2000. 

In this time, Kirstie and Phil have carried out 469 searches, viewed 1,810 homes and been trusted with more than £176,000,000 of money from house hunters.

Kirstie reflected on the episode where she attempted to find Ruth and Anna a flat the week after the Brexit result. The sisters ended up losing out on the property due to the level of uncertainty that came with leaving the European Union. 

However, Kirstie divulged that she actually negotiated the apartment they bought a year after they starred on the show, in 2017. 

She said: ‘We lost out on the property we ended up bidding on, a year later I negotiated the purchase of the flat that they finally bought. I always remember that because I always say to everyone don’t forget, we’re always there for you.’

Kirstie then revealed that every home buyer that goes on the show has hers and Phil’s personal mobile number – and she once received an unexpected drunk call from a past Location, Location, Location participant.

Kirstie said that she once received a drunk FaceTime from someone who she helped on Location, Location, Location  

Phil said it was ‘nice’ that Kirstie had secretly had helped two sisters secure a flat a year after they appeared on the show

She said: ‘Our househunters have our telephone number. I always say “Don’t call when drunk!”‘

But being able to call the hosts at any time appears to get you brownie points in your friendship group – and one intoxicated ex-participant decided to put it to the test.

Kirstie said: ‘It doesn’t always happen, but someone did call me once from the races, FaceTimed me [and said] “Look here I am I wanted to prove to everyone that I had your number'”.’ 

Reacting to the news that Kirstie had secretly helped Ruth and Anna get on the property ladder, Phil said: ‘That’s so nice, I didn’t know that.’ 

Elsewhere on the show, the mother-of-two admitted that she often doesn’t remember the names of the hundreds of people they’ve assisted over the past two decades. 

She said: ‘You know one of my great horrors is someone coming up to me in the street and saying “I was on your show” and me not knowing their name because you know I don’t know names.’ 

The mother-of-two admitted that she often doesn’t remember the names of the hundreds of people they’ve assisted over the past two decades

Phil added: ‘Yeah you remember houses,’ to which she responded: ‘You could show me a picture of 20 houses and I would be able to tell you, pretty accurately, whether we’d ever seen them.’

Channel 4 also ran an episode looking over Kirstie and Phil’s ‘Bleeps, Bloops and Best Bits’ on television, where the pair answered a question that’s been on everyone’s lips over the past 25 years. 

‘Our relationship’s lasted longer than most marriages,’ Phil said to Kirstie.

But the sentimental moment is brought to an abrupt end when Phil added, ‘probably because we’ve never slept together’ – a quip that sets the tone for ‘Kirstie & Phil: Bleeps, Bloops & Best Bits’.

His remark finally put paid to the question the pair are often asked. Kirstie then emphasised the point by saying they had never been a couple.

Kirstie and Phil were 28 and 30 when the first episode of the show which we now know as Location, Location, Location aired on Channel 4. 

Kirsty and Phil (pictured) shared bloopers from their 25 years of working together on Location, Location, Location

The two TV presenters agreed that their time together has actually been ‘great fun’ – but that’s not to say it’s been free from the faux pas that inevitably pepper any long partnership.

In the amusing trip down memory lane, the pair also took great pleasure in revisiting the hilarious moments which landed on the ‘cutting-room floor’.

From sibling-like taunting to slapstick humour, including a very near miss with a hidden trapdoor, the 20-minute show revealed ‘what happens when the wheels come off’.

And, crucially, it also provided a definitive answer to the question that’s been on the tip of viewers’ tongues for the past two-and-a-half decades.

‘We have never been an item – but we are very good friends, most of the time,’ Kirstie declared.