Sort Your Life Out, Series 5

Sort Your Life Out launch sweeps up 2.5m (22.3%)
Optomen’s cleaning format returned for a fifth run well ahead of the previous series’ launch which tided up 2.1m (16.9%) in the later 9pm slot in February 2024. Sort Your Life Out performed ahead of the 2.2m (17.3%) slot average and comfortably won the 8pm slot.

Broadcast, 12th February 2025

In February Stacey Solomon and her expert team returned to our screens with the fifth edition of this brilliant series. Once again helping families transform their homes in just seven days.

Alongside professional organiser Dilly Carter, cleaning expert Iwan Carrington, and carpenter and joiner specialist Robert Bent, Stacey orchestrates life-changing declutters – upcycling, recycling, and breaking records along the way! This season, one family tackled an incredible 437 pairs of shoes, while another faced (example).

Ruth Horner edited the final episode in this latest season. In it, the Clarke family takes on a house filled with hobbies and an obsession with bikes, with one being set up as an exercise bike in the family room, bringing the series to a powerful and inspiring close.  Sharing an insight into working on the show Ruth said;

“In Sort Your Life Out there is a lot of footage, as you can imagine, however it’s a great challenge to go through it all and craft the story. This is my third series and I enjoy every minute of it. The whole team is amazing both in front and behind the cameras.

In the Clarkes episode the two parents were deaf and we intended that they are treated like any other family, and that they had their own voices and were not dubbed. It was a fantastic new challenge for me and the skills I’ve learnt I’ve taken onto the next show I worked on, with Rose Ayling-Ellis.”

Watch on BBC iPlayer

Awards

Winner: 2024 RTS Award for Formatted Popular Factual

Winner 2024: NTV Award for Best Factual Entertainment Programme

Winner: 2024 Edinburgh TV Festival Award for Best Popular Factual Series