A FLORIST from Stockton Heath’s Living Colour was seen by millions at the weekend when she appeared on Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway.

Debs Gaskell, who has worked at the London Road business for 14 years, was in a feature called ‘Thank You, Miss’.

The producers of the hit show arranged a number of surprises for teacher Kath Crawley, who was retiring from St Thomas’ School in Wigan where Debs went.

She said: “At first I was invited to a Facebook group and then it developed into a telephone conversation when I said I was a florist.

“It was at that point that they told me they were a researcher for Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway.

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“I started in the same year that the teacher did so they were quite excited by that.”

It was arranged so that one of Kath’s surprises was flowers saying: ‘Thank You, Miss’.

So a camera crew filmed Debs creating the gift at Living Colour to mark her retirement after more than 30 years at the school.

Debs added: “It was only a short clip but they filmed here for about two hours and they also filmed me delivering them to the school with secret cameras set up for when I arrived.

“They arranged a number of surprises over about six months so she went out for drinks one night and there was no bill, she went to Asda and they had a recording of the guy at the checkout saying: ‘Your shopping is free this week’.

“There were quite a few little things set up for her to leave her puzzled and one of them was our flowers.

Kath never taught me through my school years but I always had contact with her

“I was always a shy girl and I vividly remember her comforting me when I was upset when I was little.”