Sarah Beeny travelled the world and worked in a kaleidoscope of jobs before becoming a TV presenter.

She worked for Save the Children, cleaned windows, sold vacuum cleaners door-to-door and even ran her own sandwich-making business.

There’s Annie from Lincolnshire, who took an unused industrial site and turned it into a deceptively huge modern house.

Ron Burgundy is San Diego's top-rated newsman in the male-dominated broadcasting of the 1970s, but that's all about to change for Ron and his cronies when an ambitious woman is hired as a new anchor.With her husband, Graham, and her brother, she set up her first property renovation company in 1996.Achance meeting at a party led to a screen test with a production company, and Sarah first hit our TV screens with Property Ladder in 2001.29 year-old Kimberley is actually doing it, having bought the “shell” of an old Dutch barge for £18,000.As well as downsizing considerably, she’ll have to make it inhabitable and move the vessel every two weeks.