This Morning viewers shock as Alice Beer meets a couple who live in a mud hut, wash once a week and like the smell of ‘natural’

THIS Morning’s Alice Beer had viewers captivated on Tuesday’s show when she welcomed them into the mud hut that serves as home to Kate and Alan Burrows.

Affectionately labelling them “the real life Dingles,” fans of the ITV daytime show couldn’t believe their eyes as the couple introduced them to their basic living standards.

Kate and Alan moved into their hobbit style hut after Kate’s rare condition – Multiple Chemical Sensitivity – started to make her feel unwell.

Greeting Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield, Alice said: “Good morning, they’ve got running water! They have a great big stream! And they’ve got plenty of mud!”

Once inside, Alice quizzed the couple on how they ate, washed and enjoyed themselves in their hut – which they built from wood, mud and turf.

Kate explained: “We cook on this caravan stove but we still shop in Sainsburys – we’re like a normal couple.”

Pointing to the bath, Kate explained: “We wash once a week on Sundays.”

Alice looked on in disbelief and asked the couple if there was ever a smell, to which Kate replied: “We prefer a natural smell.”

The couple - who have lived in the hut in Tarka Valley, near Chumleigh, Devon, for 19 months - get their water from the stream at the bottom of the hut and use a compost toilet.

Alice appeared to be taken with their back-to-basics lifestyle but changed her mind when Kate explained the pair watched Netflix in bed at night.

Alice said: “Isn’t it meant to be the whole point is that you’re getting away from life?”

Kate wasn’t budging however and insisted that the small amount of online streaming the couple did do wasn’t having an ill effect on her health.

Viewers expressed the shock at their simple life on Twitter and inundated This Morning with their opinions on Kate and Andrew’s lifestyle.

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