Dilly Carter is a professional declutterer who has been on the Sort Your Life Out team with Stacey Solomon since series one.
Dilly, 45, had a tough start in life. She was abandoned as a baby and adopted when she was three years old.
And her adoptive mother is actually the reason that she became an expert in decluttering…
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Sort Your Life Out’s Dilly Carter began decluttering to help her mum who has bipolar disorder (Credit: BBC)
Sort Your Life Out star Dilly Carter on being abandoned as a baby
Dilly has previously been open about her adoption story. She was adopted from Sri Lanka when she was three years old after being abandoned as a baby at a Sri Lankan orphanage. Dilly was adopted by English mum Freda and Sri Lankan dad Deya.
“They rescued me, aged three, from a Sri Lankan orphanage. Abandoned there as a baby, all I had was the metal cot I slept in and an uncertain future. Without Freda, who couldn’t get pregnant and was the driving force behind my adoption, I dread to think how my life might have turned out,” Dilly told the Mail back in 2023.
Speaking to Adoption UK, she also described her relationship with her adoptive parents as very functional, but I was never short of love”. She added: “My parents were working so hard to give me a lovely life, but we didn’t spend a lot of time together.”
Speaking to Good Housekeeping at the start of 2025, Dilly echoed the same sentiment, but added: “We lived in a semi-detached house on a lovely cul-de-sac, and I never wanted for anything.”
The star also shared that she didn’t have any professional help to understand and process her life story until she was an adult.
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