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Boozy Gogglebox stars releasing own wine, beer and spirits after finding fame from sofa in £5m mansion
Hopefully, this business venture works out better than the last one
GOGGLEBOX stars Steph and Dom Parker are releasing their own range of booze - 10 years after finding fame from their sofa.
Steph, 56, and Dom, 59, became household names for their drink-fuelled comments from their £5million mansion.
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The pair spent three years on the Channel 4 programme before quitting in 2016.
In 2017, they opened their house as a posh B&B off the back of the show, but it later crashed with debts of £1.8m.
Now, The Sun can reveal they've formed a firm called Guzzlebox Spirits Ltd for the "wholesale of wine, beer, spirits and other alcoholic beverages".
While their line is yet to hit the market, documents just lodged at Companies House look very promising.
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Steph and Dom's last business venture didn't quite work out as intended - and last year the couple finally sold their country pile.
The popular telly couple slashed £250,000 from the asking price in the summer of 2021 after going months without a buyer.
They still made a healthy profit though, having bought the Grade I listed pile in Sandwich, Kent for £2.6million back in 2004.
In addition, the couple have a holiday home in the Canary Islands, from where they told the Daily Mail: "Our lives have changed and moved on considerably and we are not in a position to move permanently back to Sandwich."
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The 17-bedroom country manor meant a lot to the Parkers, with Dom previously saying: "It was like finding gold in a river. We just thought, 'Oh my God. We must have it.'"
Four years after finding fame on Gogglebox, the building operated as The Salutation Hotel when the Parkers leased it to John and Dorothy Fothergill.
Boozy Gogglebox stars Steph and Dom have fun talking about the mating ritual of the rare flightless land parrot
But that business shut its doors just three years later with dozens of workers sent home after it crashed with debts of £1.8million.
Accountants revealed the Fothergills had been able to raise just £26,405 to pay their creditors.
A report by a firm of liquidators sent to Companies House revealed the hotel’s catering equipment, furniture company vehicles and stock has all been sold.
The document said £600 was raised from the sale of pot plants and £12,961 from the sale of furniture.
But much of the £26,405 raised will be swallowed up by accountant fees.
Debts included £1.4 million owed to “investors”, £88,000 to the taxman, £114,000 in staff wages and the rest owed to dozens of creditors for supplying food, drink and services to the hotel.
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Dom said of the closure in 2021: "We are sorry to confirm that The Salutation Hotel Ltd, which has been managing The Salutation, has indeed become insolvent.
"We are in discussions with other interested parties and we aim to have the hotel back up and running very soon, under new management.''
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