As of 2 September 2026, no reliable public source confirms that Drew Pritchard has remarried or identifies a current wife. The name Debbie Harris appears repeatedly in online articles, but no strong primary evidence establishes that she is married to the Salvage Hunters antiques dealer. Other sites have named a different woman, Phillipa, making the online picture even less reliable.
What is securely documented is Pritchard’s earlier marriage to Rebecca Pritchard, who also appeared on Salvage Hunters. In a January 2022 interview with Hagerty, Drew referred directly to having been divorced. The divorce is widely reported as having happened in 2017, although that specific year was not established through a primary divorce record.
Pritchard’s public life is much easier to document than his current relationship status. Born in Conwy, North Wales, he built a long career in architectural salvage and antiques before becoming one of Britain’s best-known television dealers through Salvage Hunters. He has since stepped away from regular television work and shifted his professional focus to antiques and interior consultancy in Tetbury.
Need to know
- No publicly confirmed new wife was identified in reliable sources checked as of 2 September 2026.
- Debbie Harris is frequently named online, but the claim that she is Drew Pritchard’s wife is not adequately supported.
- Rebecca Pritchard is his documented former wife and former Salvage Hunters colleague.
- Drew had publicly acknowledged being divorced by January 2022.
- He stepped back from television in late 2024 and now focuses on antiques and interior consultancy.
Rebecca Pritchard and the documented marriage
Rebecca Pritchard is the only spouse in Drew Pritchard’s relationship history who is firmly documented in the material supporting this profile. She became familiar to television viewers through Salvage Hunters, where she contributed research and assessment work connected with the antiques Drew brought back from buying trips.
Their marriage later ended in divorce. Drew’s own 2022 Hagerty interview provides the clearest first-person confirmation: while discussing changes to his car collection, he referred to what happened after he “got divorced.” That establishes that the marriage had ended by January 2022.
The year 2017 is repeatedly given by secondary biography and entertainment publications as the year of the divorce. Without a primary divorce record establishing that date, it is more accurate to describe 2017 as the widely reported year rather than a definitively verified legal date.
Rebecca’s public identity also extends beyond her former marriage. Her professional work has included researching and evaluating antiques, and her role on Salvage Hunters gave viewers a different part of the buying-and-selling process from the one Drew presented on the road.
The unverified claims about a new wife
The strongest recurring rumor concerns a woman named Debbie Harris. Several biography-style sites describe her as Pritchard’s new wife and variously present her as a property developer or interior designer.
The central problem is evidence. Those claims do not lead back to a reliable marriage announcement, a direct statement from Pritchard, an authenticated wedding record or reputable independent reporting that establishes the relationship.
The supposed chronology is inconsistent too. Different sites have placed an alleged second wedding in different years, including 2023, 2024 and 2025. One page supplies an elaborate engagement-and-wedding narrative but does not identify verifiable sources for the details. The same page also contains information about Pritchard’s television career and business location that conflicts with his current official website.
A separate group of articles has linked Pritchard to a businesswoman named Phillipa, with one version describing an alleged Cotswolds ceremony. That account also lacks strong confirmation from Pritchard.
These competing stories are important because they prevent any responsible biography from presenting one rumored name as settled fact. The accurate position is narrower: Drew Pritchard has not publicly confirmed a new wife in the reliable material examined for this profile.
That does not establish that he is single. It means his current marital or relationship status is not authoritatively documented in public.
Early life and entry into the antiques trade
Drew Pritchard’s full name is Andrew Thomas Pritchard. Companies House records give his birth as June 1970 and record him as British. Penguin’s author biography places his birth in Conwy, North Wales, in 1970.
His route into antiques began with restoration rather than television. According to Pritchard’s official biography, he trained between 1986 and 1993 in the conservation, design and restoration of historic stained glass as well as period building techniques.
In a 2023 Homes & Antiques interview, Pritchard described early exposure to dealers through his father, who worked as a signwriter. Antiques dealers visited his father’s premises for signage on vehicles and shops, putting the trade within view while Drew was still young.
He later entered restoration through the Youth Training Scheme. He recalled encountering a van filled with stained glass and architectural salvage and recognising that this was the field he wanted to pursue.
That technical background became useful in architectural salvage—the recovery and reuse of old architectural details, fittings and decorative objects that might otherwise be discarded. It gave Pritchard a working knowledge of materials and restoration before he became known primarily as a dealer.
Building a career around salvage and antiques
Pritchard spent decades buying, restoring and selling architectural elements and decorative antiques before television expanded his audience.
Penguin’s biography describes him as having worked in architectural salvage and antiques for more than 30 years, beginning with stained-glass restoration and design before developing an independent dealing career. His official biography also records a period working as an antiques buyer for Liberty of London.
His interviews show that the buying instinct developed early. In the Hagerty interview, Pritchard recalled trading things such as records and Dr Martens when he was young. Combined with restoration knowledge, that interest in buying and resale became central to his professional life.
He has also spoken about being attracted to objects that look worn or neglected because they can still have design value or restoration potential. That perspective later became one of the defining features of his television work: antiques were not presented only as polished collectibles, but as things that could be found in barns, workshops, country houses, warehouses and overlooked collections.
The Salvage Hunters years
Pritchard’s official television chronology says his first television appearance came in 2004 on The Reclaimers.
His best-known television role began in 2011 with Salvage Hunters. The programme followed him as he travelled in search of antiques, architectural pieces and unusual decorative objects, negotiated purchases and assessed whether items were worth restoring and reselling.
The format turned a specialised trade into an accessible television story. Viewers saw how dealers judge condition, rarity, design, restoration costs and resale potential rather than simply seeing a finished antique with a price tag.
Pritchard’s official website describes Salvage Hunters as running for 20 series over 14 years. Rebecca Pritchard became part of that public story through her research and assessment work, while other regular contributors handled transport, restoration and specialist tasks.
The programme made Drew recognisable far beyond the professional antiques world, but it remained rooted in the same work he had been doing for years before television: finding overlooked objects and deciding whether they deserved another life.
Life after regular television work
Pritchard’s career has moved back toward that core business in recent years.
According to his official television page, he stepped back from television in late 2024 to concentrate on antique and interior consultancy. Independent reporting in 2025 subsequently described the 20th series of Salvage Hunters as his last.
That timing explains why some biographies appear contradictory. A final television series can continue to air or receive promotion after the presenter’s regular filming has ended. Pritchard’s own current account presents television as a completed chapter rather than an ongoing primary job.
His official About page now says he sources antiques internationally for private clients and the trade, carries out interior consultancy and presents his collection at a gallery on Long Street in Tetbury, Gloucestershire.
That makes older articles describing Conwy as his current showroom base outdated. Conwy remains central to his biography and early career, but Tetbury is the public location associated with his present antiques operation.
Pritchard has also extended his career into books. Penguin published Man with a Van in paperback in March 2022 and How Not to Be an Antiques Dealer in May 2023, drawing on his long experience of buying, restoring and trading unusual objects.
Conclusion
The public record supports a clear account of Drew Pritchard’s former marriage to Rebecca Pritchard, his divorce and his long career in antiques. It does not currently support a definitive answer naming a second wife.
Claims about Debbie Harris, Phillipa or a private wedding remain too weak and contradictory to present as established fact. As of 2 September 2026, the most accurate description is that no new wife has been publicly confirmed. Pritchard’s documented current chapter is professional rather than personal: after 14 years of Salvage Hunters, he is again concentrating on sourcing antiques, interior work and his Tetbury gallery.