‘I was telling two girls how safe an area was – when a policeman came up and said there’d been a murder round the corner’
There used to be a design and property magazine in the Guardian called Space. It ran an article about me and my husband’s property search business. Channel 4 was looking to make a property show; they saw the piece and got in touch. I did a screen test, as did Phil [also a property searcher]. We imagined we were going to be experts talking about property searches on a new show. Little did we know we were being groomed as hosts.
