Nick Knowles: 'BBC hated DIY SOS'

Nick Knowles has claimed that BBC bosses "hated" DIY SOS when they watched its first series.

The TV host, who has fronted the show since 1999, told This Morning that the corporation's chiefs were reluctant to broadcast the programme after seeing its six-episode debut run.

Speaking of SOS's early days, Knowles explained: "We first started 11 years ago and I had a chat with the boys and I said, 'We're not going to get another series out of this'. I'd worked on building sites [so] I said, 'Let's just do building site humour'.

"So every night they got drunk, and every day they came in with a hangover and basically had a go at each other. It was like Auf Wiedersehen, Pet come to life.

"The BBC hated the first series but put it out because they had to because they'd paid for it. But the audience loved it and we then continued down that weird building site route and it's been going all these years."

Knowles is currently promoting new show Original Features, which airs nightly at 9pm on Home.