Escape to the Country's Alistair Appleton has been on our screens for nearly twenty years. With his charming presenting style and bond with house hunters on the BBC property show, Alistair has been a popular face alongside co-hosts Ginny Buckley and Nicki Chapman. Hailing from Hampshire, the 54-year-old Cambridge graduate ventured abroad after university, teaching English at the University of Gdansk in Poland before embarking on a broadcasting career in Germany with Deutsche Welle as a translator and journalist.
Alistair's early TV career included Hot TV on Sky, Channel Five's House Doctor, Rhona on BBC, Cash in the Attic in the early 2000s before he made the leap to Escape to the Country in 2007. Alistair leads a very private life but he occasionally shares a glimpse into his time off the camera. This is what we know about his creative husband and life at their charming cottage home.
Who is Alistair Appleton's partner? Alistair first came out as gay during his university days and admits he only fully accepted his sexuality when he lived in Poland and Germany. Alistair has largely kept his private life out of the spotlight, but he has occasionally talked about his husband on social media and in interviews. Alistair is currently married to his husband Daniel Martin, and the pair live together in a 1930s French sea captain's cottage in the port of Newhaven.
They live in a charming cottage in Sussex with their pet dog, Ben, and a two-year-old cat called Joni. In June, he shared .