THEY are one of the stars of Channel 4's smash hit show Gogglebox whose pithy views on life and celebrity have earned them national acclaim.

And while they are best known for their smart London lifestyle, Mary Killen and Giles Wood are residents of a small hamlet on the outskirts of Pewsey.

It took one quip about Rolf Harris for the art-loving couple, who hit television screens earlier this year, to go from being slated for being boring to now having online fan pages dedicated to their witty one-liners.

Ms Killen, 63, who was reduced to tears on Friday’s programme watching Billy Elliot, is a doctor’s daughter from Northern Ireland and better known as the posh agony aunt of The Spectator magazine.

The etiquette author advises people on their problems from how to resist peer pressure into going nude swimming, to persuading dinner guests to leave once they have outstayed their welcome.

She has been a journalist since 1984, with her career starting at Tatler magazine and writes weekly columns for national newspapers such as The Times and the Daily Express.

While Mr Wood, an accomplished artist, is the more vocal of the two on the show and once told actor Hugh Grant a friend said they looked like each other, to which Mr Grant replied “I don’t think so.”

He has also praised Devizes’ 20p public toilets for being so clean he considered it a pleasure to use them.

When they are not being filmed by Channel 4 at their quaint thatched cottage, which has matching wallpaper and curtains, they have been spotted in Marlborough High Street and the Co-op in Pewsey.

But they are more likely to frequent art exhibitions and private launch parties in London.

They mix in celebrity circles, with Boris Johnson’s sister Rachel among their friends and their daughters Posy and Freya, who are former Marlborough College students, brush shoulders with the cast of Made in Chelsea and Tatler journalist Matthew Bell, who recently dedicated eight pages in the magazine to the county.

Freya, 28, is also an established artist who studied fine art at Edinburgh University before joining the Prince of Wales Drawing School.

The couple moved from Kensington to the small Wiltshire hamlet more than 20 years when she was born.

Writing in the Telegraph in 2001 about their relocation, Ms Killen said: “Devizes has retained much more of its agricultural market-town character and local distinctiveness. As they say locally, they drink cider in Devizes and Chardonnay in Marlborough.”