EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 star Jasmine Harman says people make a huge assumption about her.

Jasmine Harman is rarely off screens thanks to constant repeats of A Place In The Sun

Jasmine Harman says people always ask her how many children she has due to viewers seeing her pregnant so frequently on screen. As one of the longest serving A Place In The Sun presenters to have joined the Channel 4 property show, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, way back in 2004, she had over 440 episodes under her belt. That’s approximately 1,770 house tours, which means she is on screens a lot, thanks to constant repeats of the show that run alongside her newer episodes.

This seems to confuse people as the 50-year-old star explained: “I worked throughout both of my pregnancies, and people very frequently ask me how many children I have as I ‘always seem to be pregnant,’ not realising that they are watching repeats!” she laughed. Despite what some quarters of the public may think Jasmine is a proud mum to just two children – 12-year-old Joy and 8-year-old Albion.

They are currently appearing alongside Jasmine and their dad cameraman Jon Boast, 46, in Jasmine’s Renovation In the Sun, which documents the family’s move to a run down villa sunny Spain which they renovated themselves.

The bubbly presenter admits it wasn’t always plain sailing mixing her family life with work. “Sometimes it was quite tough for the children, because if they had been at school and were tired and we wanted to film something…” she trails off.

“We did really fun things, which we wouldn’t have done otherwise, so that was great, but there were times when the filming slightly encroached on family life.”

Despite this, Jasmine appreciates that level of access was necessary for the show.  “That was the whole point of it, it was basically full access filming,” she says. “That’s what we were doing. We were documenting our family life.”

So did anyone in the family enjoy the experience? “The cat and the dog were very happy to be on camera,” she laughs. “Especially the cat! She was always present in the middle of everything. Just checking out her subjects.”

Jasmine Harman and her husband Jon Boast renovated their Spanish home themselves (Image: Channel 4)

Explaining why she made the monumental decision to uproot her family and live in chaos while the work on the property was being done, she admitted it was the only way they could afford the lifestyle they wanted.

“My husband also wanted to live by the sea, so I said, ‘If we’re going to live by the coast, let’s move to the Mediterranean coast! I always knew that we were probably going to be biting off more than we could chew at some point,” she says. “It was definitely more stressful and more intense than I possibly imagined. At the same time, I always knew it was going to be full on.

“But then you are just haemorrhaging money and trying to get things done in time and working with all the usual delays you have with any kind of construction or this sort of job. There are always things that you discover along the line that make it harder or that make it take longer. Maybe my lack of renovation experience was a blessing in disguise, because maybe I wouldn’t have done it had I known,” she reflected.