TELLY favourite DIY SOS has been axed by the BBC after 27 years, say furious staffers.
Insiders revealed host and the team are devastated, with the Beeb admitting it needs to cut costs.
has helped hundreds of families including building a £1million children’s unit in 12 days.
A source said: “It’s a disgusting outrage.”
The Beeb told The Sun it is “resting” the -led series next year due to “savings challenges”.
But staff reckon the move is permanent and hit back: “It feels like they’re too spineless to say what we all know: has .
“We were told it was being paused, but when we asked whether it would come back in 2028 or 2029 they couldn’t give us an answer.”
The has also confirmed there will be no for this year.
Last November DIY SOS helped construct a £1million children’s cancer care unit in Northwich, Cheshire, in 12 days.
Since 1999 people including and have helped Nick and the team aid hundreds of hard-pressed families and charities.
A source said: “It’s a disgusting outrage that a BBC show, which genuinely helps some of the neediest people in our country, is being shut down because it’s basically seen as ‘too expensive’.
“DIY SOS is one of the few shows on television that genuinely represents working-class people.
“Thousands of tradesmen and women offer their time, and often the materials, for free to people in need, even when they’re struggling to make ends meet themselves.
“These decent people give the most they can to people who have the least and DIY SOS shines a light on them.”
Confirming the show’s “pause”, a BBC spokesman told The Sun: “In light of savings challenges we have taken the decision to rest DIY SOS in 2027 and commission a new spin-off show instead from producers South Shore.
“DIY SOS Rebuilt My Life (working title) will revisit successes from the show’s past and expand the brand on the BBC in a more cost-effective way next year.”
The Sun showed the statement to staffers who said: “To pause or rest something means a show will come back.
“The BBC have made it clear that they don’t know that’ll ever happen.
“And this spin-off show, it’s just a fancy way to say they’re repeating old episodes.
“This is the end of DIY SOS as we know it and it is so upsetting.”
The Sun understands the presenters, including Nick, 64, Gabby Blackman, 52, and , 76, along with the production team and volunteers who have worked on every build since 1999, were told of the decision this week.
A source added: “Nick and the entire team are devastated.
“The decision they were told is down to cost savings being needed.
“To them it’s a slap in the face because so many people give their time and materials for nothing.
“Tears have been shed by all.
“Like the viewers they see first hand how much DIY SOS has helped people over the years.
“For them, it feels like the BBC are turning their backs at a time when communities and charities need them more than ever.
“The costs crisis, coupled with the lack of social care and the fact that charitable donations are down by over £1billion proves the public need programmes like DIY SOS — not only so they can help people, but to remind the public why volunteering and ultimately being kind is so important.”
There is even more dismay over the loss of the show’s Big Build.
A source added: “The BBC made it clear they wouldn’t be announcing DIY SOS was gone.
“It feels like they were just hoping no one would notice.
“But they cannot wriggle out of it.
“The Children In Need Big Build isn’t happening this year either.
“It’s just awful.”
During last November’s appeal, more than 900 volunteers gave their time for free to help The Joshua Tree charity build a £1million facility for children with cancer.
They constructed a two-storey building the size of three pitches in 12 days.
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2013: LITTLE MIRACLES
THE team built a base for Little Miracles, a charity that helps children with life-limiting conditions and additional needs.
Volunteers from 70 different trades worked for 16,000 hours across nine days in Peterborough.
Founder Michelle King said: “It’s life-changing and lets children be children.”
2015: HOMES FOR VETERANS
PRINCES William and Harry joined hundreds redeveloping derelict homes for armed forces veterans in Manchester.
Ex-serviceman and scaffolding boss Paul Murphy said: “It’s nice to give something back and a reward to see the royals here.
“Well played to them.”
2018: GRENFELL GYM REVIVED
HUNDREDS of volunteers rebuilt a gym destroyed in the 2017 Grenfell Fire in West London.
William mucked in again and said: “It makes you very proud that through something so tragic and traumatic people come together and help each other.”
Jason Garcia Urbano lost cousin Jessica, 12, in the fire and said: “I wanted to get involved.”
2023: ORPHANED BROTHERS
VIEWERS were moved to tears by Ruben, 17, Jaden, 11, and Uche, ten, whose single mum Carrie, 32, died in her sleep in 2017.
The boys moved into grandparents Lynn and Steve’s bungalow in Carbis Bay, Cornwall, which the team turned into a family home with remembrance garden.
Lynn said: “It’s magical.
“What an amazing gift.”
2026: BRINGING DAN HOME
NICK Knowles broke down as he helped Dan, 17, return home in Freckleton, Lancs.
The teen was left with complex disabilities after a brain tumour op.
The family home could not accommodate his needs so mum Julie was living with him in hospital, with dad Nigel looking after their daughters.
It was one of the show’s most complex builds.
Nick told The Sun at the time how standard work would have created toxic dust and disruptions, forcing the charity to completely close for a year, time which the families could not afford to lose.
He added: “We did it and it was only shut for three weeks.”
People who worked on the show are said to have tried to reason with the BBC over the decision — even citing the Charter Renewal.
A source added: “The BBC by their own standards have a mission to ‘act in the public interest’ and ‘to serve all audiences’.
“DIY SOS hits all five pillars on their mission statement.
“It provides information to help people understand the world, it’s inclusive, diverse and high quality.
“The show shines a light on communities who would never have a BBC show ever take notice of them.
“How they can pump into and drama and away from actually helping people feels very wrong.”
Nick and Lowri Turner hosted DIY SOS’s 1999 debut.
The 35th series is on screen now and this week the team helped a family renovate their house to allow son Dan, 17, to come home from hospital after three years.
He had an operation to remove a brain tumour that left him with complex disabilities.
His family could not afford, or get funding, for wheelchair access.
It was one of the team’s most complex builds.
Dan’s dad Nigel said: “You can’t help but be humbled about how many people have given up their time, and companies have given materials.
“It renews your faith in humankind.”
Viewers were left sobbing, with one writing: “DIY SOS makes the licence fee worthwhile for me.”
Another said: “Watching DIY SOS gives such a warm feeling that there are so many good people in this world willing to help others that really need it.”
Next Tuesday’s episode follows Nick and the team in North as they help a family make their home accessible for their two children, including two-year-old Macsen, who has Kabuki syndrome — a rare genetic disorder.
In 2015, princes William and Harry helped The Big Build turn a derelict Manchester street into for military veterans — with an electrician comically calling them “Sausage”.
DIY SOS was put in jeopardy in 2023 when it came under the BBC’s competitive tender policy — meaning it was opened up to outside production firms.
South Shore won the bid to make new episodes, with DIY SOS returning to much fanfare last September.
Last night a source added: “DIY SOS is everything that is good about our country.
“The people holding the purse strings need their heads knocking together.
“Everyone is praying they will u-turn and give us dates for the future but right now, that feels like wishful thinking.
“The public needs to shout up — write and email them, do anything to make them realise what DIY SOS means to so many people.”
