‘All I kept hearing Peter say was: “Schitt’s Creek, Schitt’s Creek,” and I thought: “I think Peter’s life is going really badly”’
Sara
How Hollywood husband-and-wife team Peter Sussman and Sara Curran came to run a business on the Isle of Wight is a story with all the elements of a charming film.
After leaving behind the glamour of Tinseltown in 2020, the two producers bought and restored a hotel in Cowes – with no previous experience of working in the world of hospitality – and have now found their dream roles.
“If you’d have told me this ten years ago, I’d have said: ‘Not a chance,’” says Peter, 65 – who, in an interesting twist, was one of the driving forces behind the award-winning, about a family of bankrupt millionaires who end up owning and running a shabby, backwater motel.
