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A former Channel 5 presenter has closed down his cleaning business, leaving 29 staff members without work.

Richard Pearson, who presented Filthy House SOS, had been operating Poppies of Wirral for more than a decade before the domestic cleaning service ceased trading earlier this month.

Mr Pearson, from Formby, Merseyside , was selected to front the Channel 5 programme which aired in 2020 due to his thriving cleaning company Poppies Cleaning Service of Wirral. Whilst the father-of-two lacked television experience at the time, he possessed over 10 years of cleaning knowledge from his Heswall-based enterprise, which was established in 2014.

He had previously said that the properties he assisted in cleaning were "extreme" cases of hoarding and uncleanliness.

This month,

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