After spending the past decade developing Manor House Wildlife Park into one of Pembrokeshire’s top tourist attractions, TV personality Anna Ryder Richardson is packing her wellies away and moving onto pastures new.

In an interview given to the Daily Mail over the weekend, fity-three-year-old Anna said that she is preparing to leave the zoo and animals at St. Florence for good after she and her husband Colin MacDougall called time on their marriage.

The couple are divorcing after 16 years together and Anna is swapping her Pembrokeshire surroundings for pastures new in France, where she has bought what she describes as a ‘dilapidated farmhouse’ in six acres of land near Bordeaux, where she intends to live with her two daughters.

“I still well up thinking about all the beautiful Welsh countryside and the nature. I had the best of times there, but they became the hardest of times,” the former presenter of BBC’s Changing Rooms told the paper.

As a presenter and interior designer, Anna enjoyed a thriving career, as did her husband Colin, who ran two highly successful restaurants in Glasgow, but in 2008 they took on a lifestyle change when they moved to Pembrokeshire with their daughters Bibi and Dixie, after purchasing Manor House for £1million.

They pent several thousands more renovating the zoo, with their new adventure filmed for the TV shows Anna’s Welsh Zoo and Chaos At The Zoo.

She says she still loves the zoo and will leave it with a heavy heart, with Colin staying on to continue to manage the facility which features a host of exotic animals from rhinos to lemurs.

Anna is back on television this week co-presents 60 Minute Makeover with Peter Andre on TV channel Quest Red, where she’ll help in assisting with improving the homes of people suffering through difficult times.