A former actress who has painted the inside of her flat pink will feature on television tomorrow night in a bid to find someone to swap her home with.

Jenny Rainbird, who lives in a one-bedroom housing association flat in Epsom Downs, is to appear on BBC show Swap My Council House.

The programme aims to give people an insight into the growing practice of mutual exchange - where social housing tenants move house by swapping their homes.

Since the introduction of the spare room subsidy by the Government last year - the so-called ‘bedroom tax’ - there has been a significant increase in the number of tenants needing to move, with many resorting to swapping homes in order to downsize, up-size or move away.

Swap My Council House will follow five families and individuals hoping to move.

Ms Rainbird, who has lived in Epsom for four years, has been trying to upgrade her flat to a two-bedroom home, preferably in Wimbledon, for the past two years.

She was contacted by the show’s producers after they saw she was using the Home Swapper website.

The ex-model said: "I would like a larger place with more space.

"This flat is a bit small for me.

"When my grandchildren come from America it would be nice to invite them to stay with me.

"One doesn’t realised the drawbacks until one has been here a while. I have no room to move.

"But it’s very pretty."

Ms Rainbird, originally from Buckinghamshire, said her flat may be small but has lots to offer - including its own garden and an expensive shed.

She does not believe that the home’s pink colour theme has deterred potential buyers.

"When I came here it looked like a prison. All the walls were a dirty grey.

"My daughter’s boyfriend is a builder and he painted the whole place pink.

"I have two favourite colours: black and pink. And one cannot paint a flat in black.

"I have many pretty paintings which look lovely against pink.

"It’s cheerful - this is a nice pink, not too pale or flash.

"There are weird people called time-wasters.

"Being on this show might help me to swap."

Because she does not fall within the 16 to 61-and-a-half years age bracket to which the bedroom tax applies, Ms Rainbird will not have to pay a penny towards it even though she is up-sizing.

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She has slammed the policy as "wicked".

"I hate injustice. David Cameron keeps hitting the poor. I hate the guy, I really do," she said.

"He’s constantly chipping little bits off the poor. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

"Someone like David Cameron with his 25 bedrooms should shut up.

"It’s like the Queen saying ‘I’m frightfully poor, I need another diamond’."

Ms Rainbird said she enjoyed taking part in the television show and is hoping she will soon be able to move.

When asked if she had starred in anything well known in her days as an actress, she said: "Obviously if I was successful I would have my own home and not be renting."

The programme will be shown on BBC1 at 10.35pm on Tuesday, October 14.