HOUSE BLIND: ITV DEVELOPING NEW HOME MAKOVER SERIES HOSTED BY JOSIE GIBSON

Subject to funding, ITV are developing a new daytime home makeover series House Blind, hosted by This Morning presenter Josie Gibson.

House Blind is a transformative home makeover series with a focus on minor annoyances to glaring snags, they’ve progressively combined over the years to make our lives harder, to the point our homes are actually working against us… until now.

Josie will stage an intervention. To set about rectifying those issues we’ve ignored and can no longer see. Bringing pride and functionality back to our homes in just 48-hours!

Not only will we finally fix that never ending list ‘snags’, we’ll also help our homeowners by making over an entire room for them. The result will be a beautiful transformation and a home that now makes our lives both physically and psychologically easier. 

Meanwhile, Josie Gibson is to host a new social experiment, The 1970s Diet on 5. The series sees Josie immerse herself in the food, drink and health culture of the 1970s in an attempt to see whether eating like we did in the ‘70s might actually make us healthier? After all, in 1970, only around 10% of British people were classified as obese.

Now it’s at least three times that … (by some measures it’s around 63%!). So, what changed? And could an era written off as one of the “unhealthiest” decades in British history, actually have something to teach modern dieters?

For two straight weeks, Josie will follow a bespoke 1970s diet, designed by a medical doctor and nutritionist, to reflect what the average person would have eaten in that decade.  She’ll abide by the habits of the time, from 70s portion size to an era-appropriate exercise regime. During the fortnight she will visit health experts to assess the impact of the diet on her body and wellbeing.

They’ll monitor three key results: does she lose weight? Does she become healthier? And does she get fitter? Meanwhile, she’ll explore the way we ate, drank, and exercised in the 1970s, brandishing her tartan trolley to pop to the local butcher, digging up her dinner at an allotment for a taste of the ‘Good Life’, enjoying a disco-infused aerobics class and visiting the pub to sample 70s drinking culture.  Along the way, she’ll speak to people with rich memories of the decade and draw comparisons between then and now.  

Alongside Josie, the British public also get involved with ordinary households around the UK getting their own taste of ‘70s food and lifestyle culture, sampling classic dishes and testing the era’s favourite exercise fads. We’ll discover if taking your diet back in time could see other problems emerge.

More details on both titles will be announced in due course.