Property expert Sarah Beeny has revealed she uses the same bath water as her family to avoid waste.
The Channel 4 presenter says she has been surprised by the reaction to her admission that she goes in the bath after her husband and FOUR sons.
The 49-year-old property guru relocated from London to Somerset three years ago and started renovating a semi-derelict former dairy farm into their ideal family home.
In an interview with Stella magazine she explained that she takes a bath in the evening to unwind, but not before sons Billy, 15, Charlie, 13, Raffy, 10, and Lawrie, nine, have had a dunk in the water.
She said: "In the evening, I look forward to a bath – I light candles and use one of our home-made bath bombs.
"Sometimes though, we reuse the same bathwater - why waste the water? - and I'm usually last, so the water is six dunks through."
The topic was discussed on Good Morning Britain on Thursday morning, with Sarah admitting that she has been surprised by the reaction.
She said: "I am really so amazed by the furore this has caused. People will come down and say 'I have left the bath water in, does anyone want to use it?'. I am surprised that it has got everyone hot under the collar, to be honest."
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Broadcaster Luisa Zissman was not convinced, and said that if her husband came down and said he had left the bath water in she would tell him to "drain it".
Sarah then asked her if she would get into a jacuzzi with her husband.
Luisa said: "I would get in a jacuzzi but it is chlorinated and clean."
