‘I worked with Gardeners’ World’s Adam Frost and true colours showed in off camera moment’
A TV presenter has told how Gardeners’ World star Adam Frost showed his true colours off camera when they worked together on the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
Nicki Chapman is a TV presenter who rose to fame as a judge on Popstars and Pop Idol. Her other credits include the likes Escape to the Country and Wanted Down Under.
The 58-year-old first presented the iconic Chelsea Flower Show in 2006, but as she is not a professional gardener she told how her colleague Adam always ensured there are no gaps in her knowledge with a kind gesture.
Speaking on the Gardeners’ World podcast, she said: “I’ve been doing Chelsea for a long time and you probably guessed by now I am not a trained horticulturist. I am a happy gardener and I know what I like and I know what I don’t like.
“And Adam takes me around all the gardens and he explains to me the whole theory behind it, off camera, no one knows. He explains every garden and the ethos behind it and why the gardener did that, you know, and the planting.
“So that when I come to do my shows on the Monday, I have a little bit of knowledge. He is so generous, but Adam is like that with everybody.”
Adam fronted the Chelsea Flower Show for the first time this year. He admitted he feels “privileged” to work on the show as Nicki said his mentors would be proud of how far he has come.
She said: “They’d be so proud of you, because here we are sitting on the stage of Gardeners’ World Live, we’ve finished an amazing stint at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
“And I think actually this is where we should give you a round of applause because this is the first year that Adam has anchored the show. We’ve seen him star in it for many years but to be one of the main anchor presenters.
“We do a lot of programmes off Chelsea and it’s wonderful, it’s an amazing week. Adam opened on the Sunday night which is wonderful, did you feel good?”
Nicki presented the RHS Chelsea Flower Show every year from 2006 to 2018 before stepping back the following year after doctors found a brain tumour “the size of a golf ball”.
She said at the time she was “devastated” not to be able to work on this year’s Chelsea Flower Show but was following doctor’s orders.
“You have to give yourself the best possible chance to heal,” she said. “You don’t get a second chance to recover.”
Adam first began presenting Gardeners’ World in 2016. Catch him on the latest Gardeners’ World Winter Specials from 8pm to 9pm tonight (Friday, December 12) on BBC Two.
