Razor sharp insights on search for house with room for a pony

Kate Wobschall on Celebrity Escape to the Country

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Neil 'Razor' Ruddock has had quite the career. The highlights include playing for Liverpool and England, the low points involve struggles with health, weight and money.

Once famed for turning down the collar on Eric Cantona's football shirt - without a peep in retaliation - the former centre half is now plying his trade in the wonderful world of celebrity reality shows.

His TV CV includes I'm A Celebrity..., Celebrity Big Brother, Celebrity MasterChef and now Escape to the Country. Obviously, that's the celebrity version of the show.

If you weren't aware that he's known for being a football hard man, you soon will be. Host Nicki Chapman shoehorns in as many references to it as is humanly possible as she takes Razor and his wife Leah Newman on a tour of some very swish houses in Kent.

Despite already living in the county, the couple are supposedly on the hunt for a property with room not only for themselves, their two children and several dogs but where they could accommodate yet more animals in the future.

A house with room for a pony, as Hyacinth Bucket would have put it.