Irish Sunday Mirror

Dr Eva’s hell over house operation transforma­tion

TV star on verge of nervous breakdown

- BY SYLVIA POWNALL

project to restart our marriage, to really give us another chance. But it’s been really, really tough.

“Obviously, he’s [Wyatt] worried about the money and about the fact I buy stuff we don’t need.

“It’s like two clashing ideas of absolute horror and the building of your dream.

“I almost feel my life is starting again, it’s been a little bit stressful the past few years.

“I just feel like we’re going back to what we were doing when we were living in South Africa. I suppose we had so much time there and the past 17 years

Dr Eva Orsmond and husband Wyatt in Portugal have been so busy.” Eva and Wyatt had a high-profile split in 2016 only to rekindle their romance six months later.

But the couple clashed as they set about transformi­ng a pile of ruins in the Algarve into a hotel and weight loss retreat.

Wyatt kept an eye on the purse strings as the budget threatened to go through the roof as problems arose during the two-year build. Scandanavi­an GP Eva

At former farmhouse

At empty pool

added: “I’m so in love with this place. It has been totally damaged and vandalised.

“People will think we are crazy but I can see the charm. I hope we have done the right thing.”

Cameras followed the couple during the project for a three-part fly-on-thewall series on RTE.

Dr Eva’s Great Escape airs on RTE One tonight at 9.30pm.

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We started this project to restart our marriage – it’s been really tough DR EVA ORSMOND ON MOVE TO PORTUGAL

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