She said, "He asked how big it was and said he would give it a go, asking where it was.

"When I pointed at the top of the stairs handing him the tissue roll and getting him a chair to stand on, he then reached for the spider and accidentally dropped it on the floor where it began to run, which made me panic more. He said: 'Look away, don't look.'"

He eventually flushed the spider down the toilet, which she said left her scared to use it for the rest of the day.

"I thanked him around 50 times; he kept saying this is so funny, whilst laughing. I wanted to hug him. A real-life hero."