Regular ITV fixture Stacey Solomon has been poached by the BBC to front a new series, Sort Your Life Out.
The home improvement show will see Loose Women panelist Stacey, 31, help six families de-clutter their houses and overhaul their organisational skills.
The six-part series will follow a different family each week, as they take on the challenge.
New gig: Regular ITV fixture Stacey Solomon has been poached by the BBC to front a new series, Sort Your Life Out
Mum-of-three Stacey wowed her four million social media followers over lockdown with her tips for up-cycling, organising, cleaning and de-cluttering – culminating in a book, Tap To Tidy, and now this new BBC gig.
She is set to remain part of the Loose Women panel despite taking on the new project.
‘There’s always that one room or cupboard I can’t face sorting out at home but once I’ve done it there’s nothing more satisfying,’ she told The Mirror. ‘I’ll be sharing my ultimate tidying and up-cycling tips, from Lazy Susans to tension rods.
‘There’ll be lots of great ideas to give viewers the confidence to finally tackle that cupboard.’
Little Miss Neat! Mum-of-three Stacey wowed her four million social media followers over lockdown with her tips for up-cycling, organising, cleaning and de-cluttering – culminating in a book, Tap To Tidy, and now this new BBC gig
Home organiser Dilly Carter, carpenter and up-cycler Robert Bent and cleaning expert Iwan Carrington will also feature on the show.
The show will see the families stripping their homes bare and putting everything they own in a giant warehouse.
They will be tasked with sorting through it all, encouraged to dispose of most of the possessions, leading to tension, emotion and tears.
BBC commissioning editor Emily Smith said: ‘We’re so excited for this series with Stacey and her team. It’s amazing what they can do to turn homes around without having to spend loads.’
Stacey recently revealed that organising her home helps keep her anxiety under control as she admits that it’s a ‘coping mechanism’.
Perfection: In recent years, she has become more known for her organisational skills and her ‘Tap To Tidy’ Instagram posts than she is for her X Factor stint and Loose Women fame
And in a candid new interview where she discussed everything from postnatal depression, her blended family and upcoming wedding to fiance Joe Swash, Stacey told how bringing order to her home is ‘my form of meditation’.
Stacey often thrills fans with her before and after social media posts, transforming a messy room into a vision of calm and tidiness, with the star also known for hanging her crisps on hangers and her perfectly labelled jars.
Discussing the reasoning behind this, she explained to Grazia: ‘It’s definitely about a sense of control for me. I have a tendency to catastrophise and doing something that you have control over is an escape from that.’
‘It’s a coping mechanism. My form of meditation. The point is not the end result, but the space that I’ve created for my mind.
She explained to Grazia: ‘It’s definitely about a sense of control for me. I have a tendency to catastrophise and doing something that you have control over is an escape from that’
Stacey went on to candidly speak about her struggles following the births of her children Zachary, 12, Leighton, eight and 21-month-old Rex, explaining how her organisation helped her ‘cope’ with her postnatal depression.
She said: ‘With each of my children, I had a slump where I was unable to enjoy it in the way that some people can. With Zach, I didn’t know it was postnatal depression, but I knew I had to find a way to cope with those thoughts. Setting my mind to a task like organising something allows me to feel a bit more in control of that.’
The TV personality also opened up about how she felt after first giving birth as a teenager, stating she went from being ‘invincible’ to being ‘vulnerable’ and felt she could ‘die at any minute’ as she battled to cope with her emotions.
Coping: Stacey went on to candidly speak about her struggles following the births of her children Zachary, 12, Leighton, eight and 21-month-old Rex, explaining how her organisation helped her ‘cope’ with her postnatal depression (pictured with Zach)
Despite her sunny disposition on TV, Stacey admitted that away from the cameras, she can at times really struggle with her anxiety.
She explained: ‘Sometimes my anxiety is really dark. Like, I can’t breathe, and feel like I’m having a heart attack.’
She added that despite her personality making it seem that she is not ‘intelligent’, she noted that no matter how someone appears to be, there are always things in life that can ‘make them anxious’.