{"id":191775,"date":"2025-06-17T13:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T13:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/191775\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T13:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T13:29:13","slug":"bargain-hunt-fans-left-devastated-as-star-announces-final-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/191775\/","title":{"rendered":"Bargain Hunt fans left devastated as star announces final episode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bargain Hunt expert David Fergus has taken to social media to announce that his final episode of the BBC show will air this week.<\/p>\n<p>10:47, 17 Jun 2025Updated 11:06, 17 Jun 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Bargain Hunt star BBC star David Fergus has taken to social media to share an emotional farewell as he announces his &#8220;last episode&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The expert, who appeared in four instalments of the popular antiques series this year, confirmed the final one will air this week, leaving fans feeling disheartened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">David disclosed in a heartfelt tweet: &#8220;The last of my four episodes of Bargain Hunt is on at tomorrow lunchtime, can I avenge my defeat from the last episode. Either way it was a great experience with the wonderful [Caroline Hawley] and Charlie Ross.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Following a surge of pleas from dismayed viewers imploring him not to depart, David responded: &#8220;I haven&#8217;t filmed any more shopping episodes yet but I filmed a piece today to be inserted into a future episode.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_Bargain-Hunt.jpg\" alt=\"Bargain Hunt\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>A Bargain Hunt star announced his last episode(Image: BBC)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Supportive audience members raced to comment on the announcement, as one fan remarked: &#8220;Hopefully we will see more please as I think you&#8217;re amazing!&#8221; Another supporter commented: &#8220;Will be watching, seeing more of you in future episodes we hope!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Having begun his venture into the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">world<\/a> of antiques as a collector, David later transitioned into an auctioneer role at Richard Winterton Auctioneers where he excels in appraising art and studio glass, reports <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/showbiz\/tv-radio\/2069174\/bargain-hunt-star-announces-last-episode\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">the Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_BH.jpg\" alt=\"BH\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>David Fergus confirmed he hasn&#8217;t filmed any more episodes(Image: BBC)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Sharing about his Bargain Hunt journey, David mentioned to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/bbc\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a> researchers spotted some of his social media videos for work which led to an invite to join the show, an opportunity he enthusiastically accepted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">In the past, he&#8217;s said: &#8220;someone on the Bargain Hunt team saw some social media videos I did for work and asked if I wanted to be part of the team. It didn&#8217;t take me long to say yes!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He further commented: &#8220;Bargain Hunt has such appeal because we all want to find a bargain and quite often we see items on the show that we have in our homes or remember seeing in a relative&#8217;s house.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_Untitled-12-66jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Viewers are sad to hear that David has finished his episodes\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Viewers are sad to hear that David has finished his episodes<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We can feel the contestants&#8217; joy when they get a good result and feel for them when they have a loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;The advice I would give to anyone wanting to get into the antiques business is be prepared to get dirty, because some of the items that come to us are filthy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He confessed that &#8220;life on the road&#8221; with the show provides him &#8220;the chance to see some lovely parts of the country I otherwise wouldn&#8217;t have seen&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Bargain Hunt is available to watch on BBC <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/iplayer\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">iPlayer<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bargain Hunt expert David Fergus has taken to social media to announce that his final episode of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[19221,192,77,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-191775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-bargain-hunt","9":"tag-bbc","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114698948818275075","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}