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The pandemic shut down her chateau. Then she became a YouTube star
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"The Chateau Diaries," the unlikely YouTube quarantine hit, has made a star of Stephanie Jarvis and her friends and family. Find out how they've lived in a French chateau during the pandemic.
(CNN) — What do you get when you put a former opera singer, two ex-boyfriends, her French mother, an adopted Scottish brother, a Dutch tango instructor, a Norwegian flower designer and a cheery Argentine house manager together into a sprawling 40-room French chateau?
Well, you get "The Chateau Diaries," the unlikely YouTube quarantine hit that has made a star of Stephanie Jarvis and her friends and family.
Buying the chateau
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