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Natural approach to the housework

DID you read about that company in Southampton who supply domestic help with a difference?

They’ll send someone round to do your ironing or clean the house - stark naked.

Their cleaners are more expensive than normal - they get £10 an hour instead of £6 an hour - but they perform their duties in the nude.

The company advertised at the local Job Centre and, apparently, it’s all quite legal. A spokeswoman for the Department for Works and Pensions said it could not legally refuse to carry the advert that read:

“Required for household cleaning duties in the nude. Pinny provided. Must have pleasant nature.”

Well, I suppose that goes without saying.

It might be quite diverting having Angelina Jolie call round to do the vaccing and dusting.

Trouble is, it’s probably more likely to be someone who looks like Johnny Vegas. And that doesn’t bear thinking about, even if he has got a pleasant nature.

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