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Josie Gibson's rags to riches tale: Presenter reveals she worked as a shoe polisher while living with her single mother and five siblings before finding fame as a 'fluke'


EXCLUSIVE: In a far cry away from her usual glitzy TV appearances, Josie then moved on to grease the inside of washing machine bins in a factory.

She explained that 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. Before her fame, she earned money by polishing people's shoes and catching the bus around her local town trying to sell the bottles while living with her single mother and five siblings After winning Big Brother more than a decade ago, Josie gave an interview to OK magazine saying she was a 'buffer' - a Travellers word for non-travellers who live on the grid, have their own home and send their children to school.

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