 For eight years, Whitehouse was a regular panellist on the advice show "Beauty and the Beast", hosted by Selwyn Toogood.She had acting roles in New Zealand's first TV soap opera, "Close to Home", as well as "Country GP", the third season of "Gloss" (1989), "Marlin Bay", and a 30-minute monologue in the series "Face Value" (1995).On Australian television, Whitehouse appeared in numerous of the Crawford Productions series, including "Matlock Police" and "The Box", as well as playing the role of Maggie May Kennedy in the Grundy production, "Prisoner".