Jade Vow’s cleaner spent six hours going over her home, bathroom walls and all.
Nobody mentioned the custard.
The 27-year-old model from Somerset knew exactly how it got there.
She put it there herself, during a 10-minute bath she says earned her £400.
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The £400 custard bath
The request came from a follower. He offered to pay for a short video of Jade covering herself in slime or food, and Jade, who posts to 85,000 followers on Instagram as @littlepidge, didn’t need long to pick.
“I thought ‘I’ll use custard’ because I love the taste,” she said, as reported by Creatorzine.
“We had some whipped cream in the cupboard so I used that too.”
Five boxes of custard later, she had her video. The bathroom had other ideas.
“I got paid £400 for 10 minutes in the bath – but the hard work started afterwards,” she said.
“My bathroom stunk of custard for a week.”
Too embarrassed to explain
Jade and her boyfriend Josh, 40, lived with the remnants for a week before giving up and booking a professional.
“We really wanted to say, ‘Can you get the custard off the walls?’” Jade said.
“In the end we didn’t explain ourselves, we just paid her and left her to it. I was too embarrassed to get into the details.”
The cleaner did the whole house in around six hours.
At £15 an hour, plus a £50 tip for that particular job, the silence cost the couple £140.
“She did a great job cleaning up the custard and we didn’t have to say a thing,” Jade said.
“We’ve never spoken about it but she follows me on Instagram, so I think she knows what really happened.”
She almost certainly does.
‘People have the nerve’
Jade, who now lives in Ayia Napa, Cyprus, says people often tell her to get a real job.
Her reply was to post a clip of the custard bath with the caption: “And people have the nerve to say I don’t have a ‘real’ job…”
“I don’t really get it,” she added.
Some followers backed her, sort of. One wrote: “Cleaning right after is the realest part of that job.”
Why It Matters
Custom fan requests sit at the stranger end of creator income, but they point to where the money increasingly sits: one fan, one specific ask, paid directly.
£400 for 10 minutes looks generous on paper.
The ingredients, a week of smell and a cleaner’s bill never make it into the screenshot.
Paid one-to-one requests have become a steady earner for creators with mid-sized audiences, many of whom make more from a handful of dedicated fans than from brand deals.
Jade hasn’t said whether she’ll take on another food request.
If she does, the cleaner may already know what’s coming.
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