IT’S not every day that you see a camera crew turn up at your local boozer - but one Wanborough pub had visits from three over one busy spring.

The Brewers Arms is set to appear in a trio of popular primetime and daytime shows after production companies for ITV and Channel 4 programmes got in touch earlier this year.

First, Kirsty Allsopp spent a day filming in the beer garden for part of this Wednesday’s Location Location Location because one of the three properties a couple of home-hunters will have to choose from is nearby.

Landlord Paul Studholm said: "I think they were looking for somewhere to film that had a bit of style and it was a beautifully sunny day. It was exciting, the customers were wondering what was going on.

It's rewarding to be recognised, we take a lot of pride in the pub and it's good that people want to use it for this sort of thing."

Plus, the parents of Paul’s wife Amy were interviewed as part of the search for a missing brother.

This dramatic real-life investigation will appear in an edition of hit ITV tearjerker Long Lost Family that's airing later this year.

The Studholms are keeping tight-lipped about what’s going to happen as the exhaustive research involved in the search is still ongoing but promise an emotional story when it hits our screens.

Paul added: "It's a Swindon family and it is quite a gripping tale involving my parents-in-law John and Bev Cullum, who ran this pub with me for 14 years before they retired in 2017.

"We can't give too much away and we don't actually know whether the person in the programme will find who they're looking for because it's still in-process. We'll just have to wait and see, all will be revealed."

Finally, the team behind Channel 4 show Hunted, which sees contestants flee across the country and try to avoid detection in a high-tech high-stakes game of hide and seek, stopped by to film in a field next to the pub.

Paul added: "I went into the car park and there was someone filming, which was a surprise as the other two shows gave us a couple of weeks' notice before turning up. They asked me not to get in the shot, asked to sign some paperwork after and off they went.

"There's a chance we'll end up on the cutting-room floor for that one but I'll keep an eye out."

The pub is no stranger to celebrities - during John and Bev's tenure, famous faces would often pop in for a bite to eat after meeting literature lovers and signing books in Swindon town centre's WH Smith and Waterstones.

Paul proudly reeled off a list of names including Dawn French, Ross Kemp, the Hairy Bikers, Faye Ripley, Carol Vorderman and Giles Brandreth.