Sarah Beeny has shocked people online by exposing how she empties her dishwasher, and it’s a terrible sight to witness.
The TV personality is quite comfortable with her chaotic decision, telling her Instagram followers that she believes her ‘timesaving’ alternative is far preferable to the traditional, more ordered method.
Her husband, on the other hand, actually recorded her in the act as evidence to use against her if they ever divorced since he finds it so bothersome.
It may seem dramatic, but – honestly – brace yourself before scrolling down to witness the Property Ladder host practically pour her cutlery basket contents into an empty drawer.
Sarah started the conversation about dishwashing regulations and decorum on social media.
‘Now there’s one really big reason why most marriages seem to break down, and it’s normally the dishwasher,’ she told her followers in a clip to camera.
‘Graham even videoed me the other day when I was emptying it because he was so annoyed.’
The video then cuts to a perplexed Sarah asking her partner why he was recording her when she went down to open and unload the dishwasher.
‘I’m filming this as evidence for the divorce court,’ he stated in reply, before the evidence of Sarah’s dishwasher crime was revealed.
The 52-year-old then giggled in response as she opened a drawer with no organisers and threw the entire contents of the basket into it.
Yes, all different sorts of silverware – knives, forks, spoons, and teaspoons – all in one enormous mass of metal lunacy.
To reinforce his point, Graham edited the video to show Sarah upending the silverware into the drawer three times before zooming in closer for a last lingering view overhead.
This showed the entire scope of the kitchen drawer mess, which also included steak knives, scissors, and a plastic funnel.
Sarah, on the other hand, was having none of Graham’s judgement, arguing it was’so much simpler just to tip it out than to arrange it into pieces’.
The TV personality also criticised the ‘ridiculous’ flat cutlery trays featured at the top of certain dishwashers.
‘It’s almost as if someone thought, well now we’ve made a dishwasher that’s saved loads of people loads of time, what are they going to do with that time? I know, we’ll invent a tray where they can individually place each piece of cutlery to wash,’ she complained.
Calling it a ‘silly idea’, she insisted: ‘Just pop it in a basket – it wasn’t broken. Tip it in a drawer, it takes one second. I just can’t see why anyone would do anything else.’
‘Graham says the way I empty the dishwasher makes me almost untenable to live with – he’s caught it on camera just in case it’s ever needed in a divorce court 🤣🤣,’ she explained further in the caption to her post. ‘I don’t see the problem – saves loads of time. In general, he does it, which is perhaps a very good thing!’
Opening the floodgates on this debate, Sarah added: ‘It can’t only be me who empties the cutlery like this??’
We hate to break it to you, Sarah, but you are the only one who does this, as demonstrated by the outpourings of anguish in her comment area.
‘Oh. No, no, no. Just NO,’ replied Susan Jones, adding: ‘P.S. It must take SO LONG to find what you want in that drawer?!’
‘Oh hells bells Sarah that would send my OCD through the roof 😂 xx’ admitted Lynne Pitts, while Railie Douglas responded: ‘Good Lord! 😳 That’s a blood sport in the making! Imagine fishing in there for a knife 🔪 Yikes!’
‘I literally had a gasp out loud moment I couldn’t believe what I was seeing 😳’ chimed in Patricia Degnan, adding that it had ‘never entered my mind that someone would do that’. (Nor ours Pat, nor ours.)
‘I got a rash just watching this,’ announced Angie Nichols.
However, there was a small pocket of support for Sarah’s unorthodox method, with user Rob sharing that he was ‘hundred percent with you @sarah.beeny’.
‘I just can’t stop laughing. I kind of thinks it’s genius, @sarah.beeny,’ confessed Lynne Shaw – although she shared that she preferred a tray to a basket for cutlery in order to properly separate them out.
Sarah, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2022, admitted last year that she and Graham were ‘hanging on in there by our fingernails’ as a result of the strain her disease had on their marriage.
After meeting on a blind date as adolescents and marrying in 2002, the pair had four sons: Billy (19), Charlie (17), Rafferty (15), and Laurie (13).
She subsequently stated that she was attempting to deliver ‘a really funny joke’.
‘It was all the headlines the next day about [our] marriage “holding on by our fingernails”, but that was just a really funny joke, actually,’ she said on Lorriane in October.
‘But I’m not going to say it’s easy, because obviously it isn’t easy but I think I’m very lucky that I’ve got a husband and kids who are so supportive.
Sarah, who underwent a double mastectomy, radiation, and chemotherapy to cure her cancer, received the all-clear in April 2023.