I worked on ITV’s 60 Minute Makeover – the whole show was a lie, here’s what you didn’t see on screens
A BUILDER who worked on 60 Minute Makeover has revealed the show was a 'lie' - and spilled on what viewers didn't see on camera.
The ITV renovation programme saw lucky participants have rooms in their homes completely transformed in just one hour.
Each homeowner was nominated by a friend or neighbour and kept in the dark about the renovations until they returned home to see the end result.
However, professional builder Craig Phillips, who won the first ever series of Big Brother, has revealed the show was staged.
Craig was part of the team of builders who were drafted in for the remodelling.
He said: "It happens in the time that you see us recording it but it's the planning and preparation off camera that you don't always see to make us be able to do it in that time frame.
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"Lets face it, what you see in the house happens in the 60 minutes because we shoot it in two 30-minute halfs."
The 51-year-old continued to the Daily Star that work would already have been started before the cameras rolled.
He explained: "For example, for a kitchen, we are ripping out a kitchen and we're ripping it out on camera, they only need to use 20 or 30 seconds of that kitchen being dismantled.
"So off camera, we will go in, we will isolate all the boarded stuff, the electric, the gas, the water underneath disconnect it, put caps on everything- making sure it's all safe.
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"The kitchen tops, we would have loosened all the plugs and undone all the legs."
The former reality star added that "on camera when they blow the whistle and we start and we go in and look like we're Superman".
The Sun has contacted ITV for comment.
60 Minute Makeover originally aired on the channel between 2004 and 2014.
Claire Sweeney, Terri Dwyer, Linda Barker, Catherine Gee and Peter Andre all presented the show over the years.
In 2018 digital channel Quest Red rebooted the series after a four-year break with Peter Andre returning as host before it was axed again.
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