Martin Lewis says he's revisiting a family who were his toughest ever money makeover nine years on to see if it worked.
The journalist and consumer campaigner is back for a new series of The Martin Lewis Money Show and said that this would be his first revisit to a family whose finances he had overhauled.
He explained: "I'm doing a revisit of a money makeover I did nine years ago. The reason I wanted to do this one is because it is perhaps the most difficult money makeover I've ever been involved in.
"They were a family who were in terrible, terrible trouble. I had to cancel their Christmas. I had to tell them they had to sell their house - they'd run up £150,000 on the credit cards.
"It's easy to go back three months later and say, 'Oh yes, they've started to improve,' but nine years on... did it work?"
Martin also said he was pleased to be broadcasting the show in January for the first time: "It's the first time I've done the series in January, and January is money month. It coincides with when everyone is sorting their money out, when everyone gets their credit cards bills.
"We'll be focusing very hard on what I like to call 'the big and the easy'; the big: savings, mortgage, gas and electricity, credit card, debt; the easy: we've got hints on selling your gold, holiday haggling - because lots of people book holidays in January, and gas and electricity again, which I categorise as both big and easy.
"The idea is to save as much as possible. In effect, it's the programme that pays you to watch."
The Martin Lewis Money Show can be seen Friday nights on ITV.
