Temi Johnson, a participant on Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr, has spoken up during her elimination week, admitting she went through some personal struggles and wasn’t herself after hearing about the loss of a close friend.
The criminal defence attorney advanced to the heartwarming competition’s quarterfinals along with three other aspirants, but judge Michelle Ogundehin dismissed her only weeks before the competition’s conclusion.
On the banks of Rutland Water in the East Midlands, Temi, Jack, Tom, and Monika were charged with building wedding accommodations on Tuesday’s episode.
But the judge wasn’t impressed with her design, and Temi subsequently admitted that a poor personal week had something to do with it.
In a chat with Metro.co.uk, she explained: ‘My final week was actually a really bad week, which I wish I had gone out on a different week, because I would have liked to have gone out not associating any negativity with my week out.
‘Because my final week – I had flu anyway and so production, bless them, were getting me tablets every four hours and what have you – but just before we started the build, so day one, before we even started, I got a phone call from my husband to say a friend of ours had died’.
Breaking down into tears, Temi continued: ‘So those two days I was in the toilets crying, I was trying to hide and didn’t want it to show on camera.
‘So I went away, and broke down really, production found me.’
Normally, Temi claimed, she could make lots of choices in the setting, but that particular week proved to be challenging, so she sought counsel from her co-stars.
‘I wasn’t there. It felt like I just wasn’t there, I just didn’t probably care enough in the moment,’ she said.
‘Like, I couldn’t make decisions, for example, with the electrics in the space, so I had this lovely dining table that I wanted to create this beautiful space for and I wasn’t able to change the electrics in the kitchen, and the lighting in both spaces had issues with beams and so forth, and we paid for the electrician by the hour.
‘Now ordinarily, I would have been like don’t do the kitchen lights, because that’s going to add an hour, another hour and a half because of the problems with the supporting beams and stuff like this. I just wasn’t there.
‘So then what happened was I lost about £200 worth of stuff from my living space because I was over budget, and so I had to put these legs with sofas to be raised on to, and you know, soft furnishings to cover this sort of beige sofa and that all had to go because I’d used all that time with the electrician.
‘And on another day, I know what I’m like, you know, I would have just been like, “The kitchen lights are fine, dump it”.
‘[But] I just I wasn’t myself. So that’s my only regret. I just wished I’d gone out with a space where I was like, this was on me and if I didn’t do something, it’s absolutely cool.’
‘But the week I went out, I was just like”Is it over?!”‘ Temi laughed.
Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr continues on Tuesdays at 8pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
Source My Celebrity Life.