GARDENERS' World stars have revealed they are 'controlled' and 'told to say things' they don't want to.
For 55 years, viewers have tuned in to BBC Two every Friday at 8pm to watch the programme.
Gardening expert, Monty Don, 68 recently announced he will leave the show at age 70.
Monty has presented the popular show since 2003.
"But I mean, the serious point is I will be 70 in two years' time. Will I want to go on? I like making television programmes, I like writing books.
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"To have the energy to do that and not scrabble, always that sense of scrabbling. I think I have to give something up and I'm not prepared to give up writing and I really enjoy the travel stuff I do," Monty told Jane Garvey and Fi Glover on Times Radio.
The beloved dog enthusiast added that he intends to leave because he feels the show has become a "remorseless treadmill."
Monty concluded: "So therefore the logical thing to give up is Gardeners World, which is, for all its virtues, a remorseless treadmill."
In the midst of speculation about who will replace Monty, some of the stars of Gardeners World have slammed the show too.
Bunny Guinness, a landscape architect and Telegraph columnist, said that the Gardeners World cast members "get told what to say," even if they don't always agree with it.
Bunny confessed: "Gardeners have told me that [the show] gets tedious because they get told what to say and they don’t agree with what they’re told to say.
She went on to say that they're "quite controlled," and that keeping up with the gardening industry, which is constantly evolving, is challenging for them.
“They are quite controlled. The gardening world is evolving quicker than ever, [Keeping up] is a tough gig," Bunny continued.
