In 2002, Aggie was invited to take a screen test alongside Kim Woodburn. A few months later, How Clean Is Your House? was born and Aggie and Kim became the nation’s dream cleaning team. The show is broadcast all over the world, and Aggie and Kim have made two series especially for the US.
Aggie studied in Aberdeen, then went to London to work at the Foreign Office. On her first day, they told her she had been security-screened and would in fact be working for MI6. After two years she abandoned her Miss Moneypenny position to pursue a career in women’s magazines, and eventually ended up at Good Housekeeping as associate editor in charge of the Good Housekeeping Institute, testing the latest consumer appliances, developing and testing recipes and investigating new cleaning products and gadgets.
Kim was born in Eastney, near Portsmouth. She first noticed the joy of cleaning while watching her fastidious grandmother who cleaned schools for a living, soaking clothes, scrubbing the step and polishing like crazy.
She took up her first live-in cleaning job after moving to Liverpool, cleaning from morning till night. A variety of jobs followed: at a toy factory, a holiday camp, as a beautician, a social worker and even a model in a clothes catalogue. Kim also started knitting, and founded a handmade knitwear company.
Their book How Clean Is Your House? was published in 2003 and became a best-seller. In 2004 they published a book, Too Posh to Wash to accompany their television series. This was then followed in 2006 by another book, Cleaning Bible. In 2006, Kim also published her autobiography, Unbeaten, a powerful and emotional story of a very difficult childhood.
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