Max McMurdo

Olly Smith & Matt Tebbutt

We catch up with Olly and Matt during day two of the show.

David Domoney

David Domoney is a Chartered Horticulturalist whose expertise has won him 30 Royal Horticultural Society Medals for garden design and plant exhibits at national garden shows in the UK. He designed the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Garden at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show to celebrate the Commission’s Centenary. David Domoney presents gardening on national television to 4 million viewers and he writes for national newspaper the Sunday Mirror. He also writes for two big magazine titles: House Beautiful magazine, one of the UK's leading home and lifestyle titles, and Grow Your Own magazine, the biggest specialist in garden home produce.

Joe Swift

After leaving school Joe went to Art College and played bass in a band. He then travelled and worked abroad and upon his return started landscaping in North London and subsequently lived in Australia for a year landscaping in Sydney and Melbourne. He studied garden design at The English Gardening School based at the Chelsea Physic Garden in 1990 whilst simultaneously setting up a landscaping company. Joe started presenting Gardeners World in 1998 and now designs gardens, presents on TV and writes.

Max McMurdo

Max is a TV presenter for ITV1's ‘£10k Holiday Home’ which was co-present with Julia Bradbury. Throughout the series Max created his own transportable holiday home on a budget of £5k. He will also be on the new series of ‘Find It Fix It Flog It’ on Channel 4 later this year and has recently been seen on the latest series of of ‘Shed of the Year’ on Channel 4. Max’s other credits include ‘How To Live Mortgage Free’ an eight part series on C4, two series of ‘George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces’ and ‘Fill Your House For Free’. Max has also fronted a special for ‘George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces’ which followed his journey selling his house and building a floating home from a 40ft shipping container. The show was the highest rating episode across the series. And in 2016 Max fronted a new series on Nat Geo called ‘Machine Impossible’. Max’s first book ‘Upcycling’ was published in September 2016 and he is already writing his next book ‘Upcycling Outdoors’ for publication next year. Brand partnerships have included brands like Frenchic Furniture Paint and Sugru and projects have included Beetlemania where he bought a run down beetle online and created 25 upcycled items from it which were then sold for charity.

Rosemary Shrager

Chef, author, cookery school owner and overall TV personality, Rosemary Shrager. With her exuberant personality and passion for imparting knowledge of food, we welcome Rosemary back to Eat & Drink Festival for 2019.