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EXCLUSIVE Josie Gibson buys million pound mansion in Bath after living in a caravan and working as a cleaner
When Josie Gibson first started working, she lived in a caravan.
As a call centre worker for insurance firm AXA in Bristol she earned around £10,000 and topped her income with a sideline as a cleaner.
But 15 years on and the television presenter is worth around £1m and has splashed out on a stunning £1.1million mansion in Bath - ten miles from where she grew up.
Now a much loved This Morning host and star of the 2023 series of I'm A Celeb, she has spent her riches on the four-bedroom, three-bathroom cottage on the outskirts of the historical city is set on three acres and also has a conservatory and outbuildings where she will live with her seven-year-old son Reggie.
She also has big plans for the property. She has already submitted a planning application for 'erection of two storey side extension, entrance and single storey extension with balcony and new first floor and roof for annex building'.
A friend of the star told The Mail: 'Josie is the fairytale rags to riches story.
'She used to live in caravan, she had very little but she has transformed her life thanks to her bubbly personality. She went out to the jungle so the fee from that would have helped to the house, for sure.'
Josie, 40, rose to fame 15 years ago when she won the reality television show Big Brother.
She won the 11th series in 2010 after getting into a relationship with housemate John James Parton.
The couple later appeared in a one-off fly on the wall show following their lives together called Josie and John James: What Happened Next, before later splitting up.
Josie quickly carved out a career as a TV personality, appearing in 2011 in her own three-part reality TV series There's Something About Josie.
She joined ITV's This Morning as a competition announcer in 2019 and became a presenter in 2021.
Before she became famous after appearing in Big Brother in 2010, she used to earn money by cleaning people's shoes and catching the bus around her local town trying to sell the product.
In a far cry away from her usual glitzy TV appearances, she then moved on to grease the inside of washing machine bins in a factory before landing her job at AXA.
A friend of the star told The Mail: 'Josie is the fairytale rags to riches story. 'She used to live in a caravan, she had very little but she has transformed her life thanks to her bubbly personality. She went out to the jungle so the fee from that would have helped to the house, for sure.'
Josie found love during her time in the Big Brother house with Australian housemate John James Parton but they split a year later.
In 2018 she welcomed her son Reggie with her now ex-partner Terry Bond and bought a £550,000 house in her home city of Bristol where she grew up in 2022.
