As Louise Roe is hunkering down at home to watch The Holiday this Christmas, she won’t be pining after a slice of country idyll. That’s because five years ago, on returning to the UK after a decade in Los Angeles, the broadcaster and homewares entrepreneur landed in rural Buckinghamshire. Together with her television director husband, Mackenzie Hunkin, they set about restoring a beautiful Georgian rectory. It was a short-lived spell which lasted just 18 months before they were on the move again.
“I don’t regret it at all, because we had the loveliest experience and space for lockdown, but it made us sure that we wanted to be in London,” Roe explains.
