Lynsey Crombie

Lynsey Crombie is a best selling author, businesswoman, and TV personality. But behind Lindsay's success is a much darker story.

She first came to prominence when by sheer chance, she landed a role on channel for obsessive compulsive cleaners, which evolved to a regular slot on ITV this morning, where she shared not just her love of cleaning, but as secrets and hacks to a cleaner house and became known as the 'Queen Of Clean'.

Throughout the pandemic, Lindsay has continued to share her brilliant cleaning hacks on social media with her many followers, and it led to the release of her latest book, The 15 Minute Clean.

Yet behind the successful career women, is a difficult and challenging history.

Age just 24 married and expecting twins, her life was interrupted in perhaps one of the worst ways possible.

In the early hours of one morning, without any warning, her husband was arrested. Shortly afterwards the stress caused by the ordeal brought about the premature birth of her twins.

She had to endure living on a knife edge, watching her premature twins fighting for their lives, while not knowing why her husband had been arrested and detained.

Slowly, Lindsay discovered her husband's dark secret. He was charged for pedophilia. For a time her world fell apart. She struggled to share her pain with anyone and became a compulsive cleaner as a way of coping with her trauma.

Lindsey's story is both brutal and heartbreaking. But it's also one of triumph and hope.

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