A mum signed up for a TV programme about obsessive cleaners because she could not afford a skip for a spring clean.
Janine Duckworth and youngest daughters Freya, ten, and Trinity, five, appeared on Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners last week.
Janine, of Coggeshall Road, Braintree, had wanted a clear out after ten years of hoarding but could not afford the £400 quote for a skip.
She joked she would ask Channel Four to help and was surprised to find researchers in George Yard shopping centre a few days later looking for families to take part in the show.
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