Staff at Blenheim Palace have described being featured in the grand finale of the fifth series of the TV show Interior Design Masters will "entice more people to visit".

Hosted by comedian Alan Carr and designer Michelle Ogundehin, the BBC show saw Roisin Quinn being crowned the champion.

The show challenged 10 amateur designers to transform different spaces across eight episodes to battle for a place in the finale which was aired on Tuesday, April 30.

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Heather Carter, managing director at Blenheim Palace: "It was a great pleasure and a lot of fun to have Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr film with us at Blenheim Palace in September last year.

"They were here for five days filming both at the palace and the lodges, and we managed to keep it secret until the big reveal last night on BBC1. 

"We have a lot of filming here at the palace and it gives us great reach into new audiences.

"We know that being featured on such a popular programme as Interior Design Masters will entice more people to visit the palace and book one of the lodges."

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Winner Roisin Quinn and runner-up Matt Smithwood had three days and £6,000 to redesign holiday lodges at the 18th-century building as part of the BBC show.

Throughout the series contestants were asked to makeover offices, a B&B, a wedding hotel, beach huts, and hair salons.

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