10 minutes | Thursday, 26 January 2017
Some of you may have noticed a familiar face – and rather loud voice – on your television sets last week, as Manxman James Whittle showed off his building skills and big personality on the Channel 4 programme ‘Restoration Man’.
Despite being the featured character and almost single handedly restoring the North Yorkshire Filtration Plant for his brother and father in law, he vanished from the programme before the build was complete – which led to viewers across the UK hammering the hashtag ‘bringbackjimmy!’ on social media. Picking up on the excitement, within hours of the show ending the Express newspaper had released an article titled ‘Viewers demand builder takes over the show’, saying 'Surely Jimmy will get his own building programme? This guy is glorious!'
Well, he is back – at least, on the Isle of Man – working on a building in the heart of Douglas. Christy caught up with him to ask him what it had been like being a TV star for a night – and he revealed that this may not be the end of his TV career... (if you'd like to sign the petition, follow this link: https://www.change.org/p/channel-4-get-jimmy-the-builder-brother-from-last-weeks-c4-the-restoration-man-his-own-show)