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Supernanny is a reality TV programme which originated in the United Kingdom, about parents struggling with their children's behaviour. The United Kingdom version has aired on Channel 4 with E4 showing repeats since 2004. The program returned to Channel 4 after a two-year break in 2010, with E4 also showing more repeats. The show features professional nanny Jo Frost, who devotes each episode to helping a family where the parents are struggling with their child-rearing. Through instruction and observation, she shows the parents alternative ways to discipline their children and regain order in their households. Frost is a proponent of the "naughty chair" theory of discipline and is strictly opposed to spanking. Its competing series was Nanny 911.
In the United States, it aired on ABC and Style Network and currently airs on Up TV. The series ended in the US on 18 March 2011, due to low ratings, and ended on 7 September 2012 in the United Kingdom. A spin-off of the show was produced and is titled America's Supernanny.
Jo Frost (born 27 June 1970) is a British television personality who leveraged her 15-year-experience as a nanny for the reality television program Supernanny, in which she was the central figure. It first aired in the United Kingdom in 2004 and she has branched off into several other reality shows in the United Kingdom, United States and the Netherlands. The edgier Family S.O.S. with Jo Frost addressed issues such as addiction and abuse. Family Matters is a talk show. She has written six books on child care.
Joanne Frost grew up with a brother in Southwest London. Her father was an English builder and her mother, born in Gibraltar, was an interior decorator. Frost had a happy, physically active childhood. Because her father was interested in history, she went to a number of castles and museums. About 1994, her mother died of cancer. Frost, who regularly travels for work, lived with her father when she was at not taping or meeting other career obligations. By 2014, she was living with her fiancé, location coordinator Darrin Jackson, in Orange County, California