Aggie MacKenzie
Aggie shot to fame back in 2003 as one half of the nation's dream
cleaning team on Channel 4's hit series 'How Clean Is Your House?' Her
role as Dirt Detective was to investigate the science and health
implications behind the filth. The programme ran for six series (plus
two in the US), along with a number of specials and one-offs and is now broadcast
internationally, from Norway to Namibia, and repeated widely on UK
digital channels. Sales of the tie-in book to the first series quickly
reached over half a million copies and it continues to sell today.
Aggie has just finished filming a second series of 'Storage Hoarders'
for ITV1 which starts on 12th August 2013. In the series, she
investigates the increasing demand for storage units and the strains it
can have on relationships of those with too many possessions. The first
series aired in the UK in December 2012 and will be shown in Australia,
NZ and Scandinavia. Aggie also continues to write a number of columns
in national publications including a monthly page in Delicious where
she tests a range of kitchen items and a column in 'My Weekly'.
Aggie's first cookbook, 'Aggie's Family Cookbook: Save Time, Save
Money', was published in October 2011. In 2009 'Ask Aggie', a
collection of Aggie's domestic advice columns from the previous six
years in the Saturday Times, was published. It quickly shot to Number
One in Amazon's Home and Garden chart. As a fan of environmentally
friendly products, Aggie has recently re-launched her very own range of
probiotic cleaners - a totally revolutionary phenomenon in the domestic
arena. She is also a regular on Daybreak, The Wright Stuff, BBC
Breakfast, Today FM in Dublin and The One Show, where she comments on
any number of subjects, from the psychology of hoarding to the
perennial female dilemma of big-pants-versus-thong. Last year, she
voiced a programme for the Radio 2 Arts Show on household dirt, based
on a major exhibition at the Wellcome Collection.
Aggie was also one of a panel of housing experts chaired by Lord Best,
whose role it was to identify key issues in the provision of housing
for the elderly. The panel visited exemplar projects in the UK and
Europe and delivered their report to Government last December. Last
spring she was the keynote speaker at a national conference on the
challenges of growing old in the countryside.
Aggie has recently completed a two and a half year Certificate of
Education in psychoanalytic psychology at Birkbeck College, University
of London, for sheer personal interest and enjoyment.
cleaning team on Channel 4's hit series 'How Clean Is Your House?' Her
role as Dirt Detective was to investigate the science and health
implications behind the filth. The programme ran for six series (plus
two in the US), along with a number of specials and one-offs and is now broadcast
internationally, from Norway to Namibia, and repeated widely on UK
digital channels. Sales of the tie-in book to the first series quickly
reached over half a million copies and it continues to sell today.
Aggie has just finished filming a second series of 'Storage Hoarders'
for ITV1 which starts on 12th August 2013. In the series, she
investigates the increasing demand for storage units and the strains it
can have on relationships of those with too many possessions. The first
series aired in the UK in December 2012 and will be shown in Australia,
NZ and Scandinavia. Aggie also continues to write a number of columns
in national publications including a monthly page in Delicious where
she tests a range of kitchen items and a column in 'My Weekly'.
Aggie's first cookbook, 'Aggie's Family Cookbook: Save Time, Save
Money', was published in October 2011. In 2009 'Ask Aggie', a
collection of Aggie's domestic advice columns from the previous six
years in the Saturday Times, was published. It quickly shot to Number
One in Amazon's Home and Garden chart. As a fan of environmentally
friendly products, Aggie has recently re-launched her very own range of
probiotic cleaners - a totally revolutionary phenomenon in the domestic
arena. She is also a regular on Daybreak, The Wright Stuff, BBC
Breakfast, Today FM in Dublin and The One Show, where she comments on
any number of subjects, from the psychology of hoarding to the
perennial female dilemma of big-pants-versus-thong. Last year, she
voiced a programme for the Radio 2 Arts Show on household dirt, based
on a major exhibition at the Wellcome Collection.
Aggie was also one of a panel of housing experts chaired by Lord Best,
whose role it was to identify key issues in the provision of housing
for the elderly. The panel visited exemplar projects in the UK and
Europe and delivered their report to Government last December. Last
spring she was the keynote speaker at a national conference on the
challenges of growing old in the countryside.
Aggie has recently completed a two and a half year Certificate of
Education in psychoanalytic psychology at Birkbeck College, University
of London, for sheer personal interest and enjoyment.