The Salvage Hunters antiques dealer divorced Rebecca Pritchard in 2017 and has kept his personal life strictly private since. A widely shared claim of a remarriage has spread across the internet. This is what the evidence actually shows.
Drew Pritchard spent 14 years hunting antiques on camera. He has spent the eight years since his 2017 divorce being decidedly private about everything else.
Since splitting from Rebecca Pritchard, speculation about whether the Conwy-born antiques dealer has remarried has grown into a substantial corner of the internet. A name, Debbie Harris, has been attached to him across dozens of websites. He has not confirmed it. No mainstream UK media outlet has reported it. And his own public statements point in a different direction entirely.
As of April 2026, Drew Pritchard has not publicly confirmed a new wife, a new partner, or any new relationship of any kind. The Debbie Harris reports first appeared on entertainment blogs in early 2024 and have since been republished across numerous similar sites, none of which have produced a photograph, an official statement, or any verifiable source.
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Drew Pritchard and Rebecca: The Partnership Behind Salvage Hunters
Born in Conwy, North Wales in June 1970, Drew Pritchard left school at 16 without qualifications, trained as a stained-glass restorer, and established himself as an independent antiques dealer in 1993. When Salvage Hunters launched on Quest TV in November 2011, his then-wife Rebecca was central to the operation. She handled valuations and restoration assessments while Drew sourced the pieces.
The show, produced by Curve Media, ran for 20 series and drew 22 million viewers across 52 countries at its peak. Rebecca appeared throughout, and for most of that run, the couple’s professional and personal lives were inseparable. Over the years, Drew’s reputation extended well beyond television. He worked with interior designer Annabel Elliot, the sister of Camilla Parker Bowles, as well as Ralph Lauren and Marco Pierre White.
Drew and Rebecca had two children together: son Tom, born in 1999, and daughter Grace. Their marriage lasted over 20 years. It ended in 2017.
The Divorce: What Court Records Confirm
The breakdown of the Pritchard marriage became public not through any interview or statement, but through a court case at Llandudno Magistrates Court in October 2017, reported directly by North Wales Live and the North Wales Pioneer.
Janus Bryn Thomas, managing director of BJW Cranes Ltd, had attacked Drew at the Liverpool Arms pub on Conwy Quay on July 8 that year. Thomas admitted both common assault and threatening behaviour. What the court heard made clear why.
Drew had been involved with Amanda Thomas, Janus’s wife, for approximately two years before the incident. When that affair ended, Drew reportedly threatened to make it public. Amanda told her husband. Several other women also contacted Amanda, claiming their own relationships with Drew had been affected.
On the evening of July 8, Thomas saw Drew at the pub, said he was smirked at, and struck him once with his left hand. Drew was knocked to the ground, dropping his drink and glasses. Other drinkers pulled Thomas off. Drew was left with a sore head, a cut elbow, and jaw pain, and later described the attack as “completely unprovoked and vicious.”
Thomas was ordered to pay a total of ยฃ1,721, covering assault, threatening behaviour, compensation, and court costs, and was banned from every pub in Conwy County. The magistrates declined to grant the restraining order Drew had applied for.
In February 2018, Drew was placed on Conwy’s Pubwatch scheme following a separate incident at the same pub during a Six Nations rugby match, leaving him barred from more than 40 licensed premises across the county. That ban was lifted by 2020 after he served 70 per cent of his tariff without incident.
Sobriety, Bath, and the Quiet Rebuild
The years that followed were, by Drew’s own account, difficult. He told The Times in 2023 that he had quit drinking around 2021. Later that year, speaking to The Telegraph, he described where he had arrived:
“I’ve had a blip in the middle where everything just got too much for me, which I’m over now and working on. I’ve started again from scratch. I’ve completely binned my old life.”
He called his new approach “sparse, simple, and straightforward.” The interview contained no mention of a new partner or relationship.
Drew also published a book in 2023, How Not to Be an Antiques Dealer: Everything I’ve Learnt, That Nobody Told Me, writing in it that children come first and antiques come second.
The clearest sign of his fresh start was a Grade I-listed, five-storey Georgian townhouse in Bath, Somerset, bought in the summer of 2022 for ยฃ1.5 million. He described the 1790s property, which had been divided into five flats during the 1970s, as “the worst house in the best location.” It was riddled, he said, with “bodged repairs” throughout.
Within ten months he had burned through his entire ยฃ200,000 renovation budget, maxed out his credit cards, and failed to secure a bridging loan. He sold some of his most treasured antiques from his Conwy years, and eventually his Conwy house, to keep the work going. In the Salvage Hunters: Georgian House Restoration special, which aired on Quest and Paramount Plus in February 2025, he said:
“There have been sleepless nights and a lot of worry. I can’t back out now, but I don’t have a magic money tree.”
The renovation was completed. Drew documented the finished rooms on Instagram, room by room, to an audience of around 185,000 followers. None of those posts referenced a wife, a partner, or a relationship of any kind.
Who Is Debbie Harris? The Claim Examined
From early 2024, a story spread online that Drew had married a woman named Debbie Harris, described across various sites as a property developer and interior designer. Some versions placed the ceremony in a private gathering in 2023. Others said the couple met during a restoration project in Cornwall. A few added that she had influenced his design work in Bath.
None of it has a verifiable source behind it.
The Telegraph, the Daily Mail, The Times, the BBC, and North Wales Live, which has covered Drew in considerable depth over many years, have not reported any remarriage. His Instagram shows antiques, restoration work, and his Tetbury shop. His April 2025 coverage in North Wales Live, which focused on his departure from Salvage Hunters after 14 years, made no reference to a wife or partner.
What happened with the Debbie Harris story is straightforward. A speculative post appeared without any sourcing. It was picked up and republished across similar sites, each with slightly different details. The variation in dates, locations, and specifics between versions is itself telling. Genuine reporting about a real event does not vary between outlets the way these accounts do. One site went as far as claiming Drew confirmed the marriage via Instagram in April 2025. That post has never been located.
As of April 2026, the Debbie Harris story exists only in the space between what Drew has said publicly and what his audience wants to hear.
Drew Pritchard in 2025 and 2026
Whatever his personal circumstances may be, Drew’s professional life over the past 12 months has been the most eventful chapter since Salvage Hunters first aired.
On April 29, 2025, he announced via an Instagram video filmed at his Bath house that he was leaving the show after 14 years and 245 episodes. Series 20, already filmed, was to be his last. His final episode aired on September 25, 2025. He said the show had been “an incredible privilege” and that the production team had felt “like a family” across 15 years. He hinted at stepping away from television entirely, with plans centred on antiques, the Bath house, and classic cars.
In November 2025, he opened Drew Pritchard Antiques on Long Street in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, a 50-minute drive from Bath. Tetbury is widely regarded as one of the Cotswolds’ foremost antiques destinations. Drew posted that he felt “blessed to be surrounded by some of the country’s best dealers in the same street.”
At the turn of 2026, he reflected publicly on the year: “A year of change, movement and ideas, a year where we found a new home in Tetbury, a space where we feel very lucky to be. The next year will see me continue to hawk my finds to you, the thrill of the chase, the deal, the buy and fingers crossed the sale… never diminishes.”
Whether Drew Pritchard has a new wife who has simply stayed away from public life is something only he can answer. What the available record shows, clearly and consistently, is that he has not confirmed one. His own words in 2023 described a man living alone and starting over. His social media in 2025 and 2026 shows a man absorbed in a new shop, a restored house, and the antiques trade he built his life around long before any television camera showed up. The question of Drew Pritchard’s new wife may stay open for as long as he chooses to say nothing. That, for now, appears to be the plan.
Sources: North Wales Live / Daily Post: court proceedings October 2017; Salvage Hunters departure April and September 2025; Tetbury shop November 2025 and January 2026. North Wales Pioneer: court coverage October 2017. The Telegraph: May 2023. The Times: 2023.
