My Kitchen Rules star Ash Pollard has revealed that her house cleaner fired her – and it’s not the first time.
In an extraordinary ten-minute rant posted on social media on Wednesday, the 38-year-old mother raged that she cannot find a cleaner with “the same standards” as her.
‘Is it possible for your own employee to fire you? Because he simply was. My cleaner fired me as a client. Do you want to know why? “I’ll tell you,” he began.
“My cleaner said my expectations were too high for the service they had provided me over the past two years.”
The Australian radio and television personality, who rose to fame on the 2015 season of MKR, filmed herself pacing around her kitchen in Melbourne as she told the story.
Ash explained that his house cleaner, who he paid “a lot of money” to clean his house in Melbourne, where he lives with his partner and two young children, had not cleaned the shower well enough to prevent mould.
‘Now, this house was new when we moved in. Nobody had lived here because we had just finished building it.
‘They were the only cleaners who cleaned this place every fortnight and I just did the maintenance in between.
My Kitchen Rules star Ash Pollard has revealed that her house cleaner fired her – and it’s not the first time.
‘Our shower started to have mold on the grout and cork. They were the only ones who cleaned it, which means if it’s already growing mold, they’re not cleaning it properly.’
Before cleaning his newly built home, Ash said he had hired the same cleaner to take care of his rented home.
“I told him, ‘Listen, this isn’t cleaning properly.'” I had to get the plug back and he did it again to make the shower cool again.
‘I said, “Listen, it’s dirty.”‘
The cleaner apologized in a text message sent to Ash and said they would take full responsibility.
Ash Pollard, 38, a mother from Melbourne, posted her ten-minute rant about her house cleaner to her 128,000 Instagram followers.
But then they decided they’d simply had enough.
“Your standards are obviously too high for our service,” they wrote. “Good luck in the future.”
‘You know what’s funny? This is the second time this has happened to me,’ he revealed.
The Australian radio and television personality was furious that her cleaner had failed to prevent mold from appearing in her shower and said it must have been her fault because “no one else” had cleaned the shower since her family moved there.
‘Because I still think it’s them. “Maybe it’s me,” Ash continued.
‘No, he’s not fucking with me. What’s wrong with people nowadays? “People have low standards or aren’t willing to do the damn work.”
He added that the company he used was “expensive,” but did not specify how much he paid for his biweekly cleaning.
“First world problems, I know,” Ash said.
But then she continued angrily: ‘So you think they would get down on their knees and scrub the grout!’
‘They weren’t going to buy a grout cleaner. They would just gently walk over the floor and clean the house with a rag.
Ash pranced around his kitchen while making fun of how his cleaner cleaned his floors and then demonstrated how he expected the task to be done.
Dressed in black sportswear with her blonde hair tied back, the self-proclaimed OG of the reality show wildly pushed an imaginary mop back and forth.
Ash pranced around his kitchen while making fun of how his cleaner cleaned his floors and then demonstrated how he expected the task to be done.
Dressed in black sportswear with her blonde hair tied back, the self-proclaimed OG of the reality show wildly pushed an imaginary mop back and forth.
“Mopping isn’t like that,” he shouted. ‘It’s like that! You need to be breaking your back and sweating for that.
Ash Pollard also appeared on Dancing With The Stars (2015), I’m a Celebrity! Get Me Out of Here (2017) and, more recently, the second series of The Traitors in 2023 and previously called out TV networks because she didn’t “want to be an influencer.”
In her next video, the mother of two explained that she’s “really into outsourcing lately” because although she’s “good at cleaning, I’d rather not do it.”
‘Because I prefer to do other things. I’d rather not waste my time.
The Melbourne mum took to her 126,000 Instagram followers to ask if she was being too “anal” about their expectations, as her friend told her.
“I really respect good cleaners,” he said. “I just can’t find one that has the same level of cleanliness as me.”
In her next video, the mother of two explained that she’s “really into outsourcing lately” because although she’s “good at cleaning, I’d rather not do it.”
The Melbourne mum took to her 126,000 Instagram followers to ask if she was being too ‘anal’ with her expectations, as her friend told her.
Ash also complained that his cleaner had not picked up his furniture to dust underneath it, but had instead vacuumed around it and also failed to dust his skirting boards.
I don’t want a speck of dust anywhere!
In her next videos, Ash revealed that she had gone out and bought a duster to carry out the task herself and was shocked to discover other parts of her house that had not been cleaned properly.
That included the base of a floor lamp, between the tiles of her kitchen backsplash, and the lids of her liquor bottles in the back corner of her pantry.
‘Yes, that’s fucking right. Add that to my CV. I’m the new cleaning lady on the block,’ she huffed. —But they’re not going to pay me for it, right? NO.’
‘What’s a girl to do? What do I have to do?
The conclusion he came to was that he would have to write a list of everything he wanted done the next time he hired a cleaner.
However, in a genius marketing stroke, a Melbourne cleaning company edited all of Ash’s videos and said they were ready for the job.
Ash has two young daughters: Clementine, four, and Claudette, three.
She also appeared on Dancing With The Stars (2015), I’m a Celebrity! Get Me Out of Here (2017) and, more recently, the second series of The Traitors in 2023, although he has never won a reality TV competition.
In 2022, Ash ‘shamelessly’ made his offer to television networks to participate in more shows, such as The Amazing Race or Celebrity Apprentice Australia. “I don’t want to be an influencer,” she said.