The national spotlight will fall on Canterbury this evening when The Martin Lewis Money Show – which was filmed in the city – is screened.

Martin Lewis, who founded the Money Saving Expert website and regularly appears on This Morning, was spotted filming trailers for his 12 Saves of Christmas programme in the city centre last week.

The celebrity finance guru was seen in the Buttermarket and the High Street with his co-host Saira Khan, wearing a sandwich board carrying the message “Christmas is on December 25 this year”.

It followed Mr Lewis’s visit to the city last month, when he was filmed speaking to shoppers in the Whitefriars Arcade about how to manage Christmas finances.

While here, he also interviewed Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby at the cathedral about the pressure people feel to buy expensive gifts for their loved ones.

In scenes due to be screened this evening, the Archbishop said the materialistic nature of Christmas could put relationships at risk.

He said: “It’s a cliché of modern life that someone gets up and says Christmas is becoming very materialistic as though it wasn’t 300 years ago.

“Yes, obviously the secular over-the-topness, everything you have to have, new clothes you have to have, new this, new that, new the other, is ridiculous.

“It’s absurd, it shouldn’t happen. It puts pressure on relationships because when you’re short of money you argue.

“You get cross with your kids more easily, it spoils life.”

The interview will mark the first time the Archbishop speaks about Christmas on television since his enthronement in March.

The Martin Lewis Money Show: 12 Saves of Christmas will air on ITV at 8pm this evening.