Amanda Brunker

Amanda Brunker (born 12 June 1974 in Dublin, Ireland) is a novelist, journalist/columnist with the Irish Sunday World newspaper, and former Miss Ireland.

After attending Mount Temple Comprehensive School she turned to modelling, entering and winning the Miss Ireland competition in 1991 when she was 17 years old. She went on to represent her home nation in the Miss World Competition in Atlanta that same year without success.

Career

She has continued modelling, acted in the film Head Rush, had a cameo role on the former Irish soap Glenroe, been a nightclub hostess and presented her own late night TV show The Dinner Party.

She published her first novel, entitled Champagne Kisses, on June 25, 2008, which was followed in June 2009 by its sequel Champagne Babes.

In late May 2008 she appeared on the Irish chat show, The Late Late Show, to promote her then forthcoming debut novel. During the interview she confirmed that she and her partner had become engaged to be married during a holiday in New York, a story that had appeared the previous February in the Irish Independent, and on its linked website.

From November 4 to the 8th 2008, she was the guest presenter on RTÉ 2's The Podge and Rodge Show, a show she had previously been a guest on. She was the Dublin judge and mentor on The All Ireland Talent Show.

She participated in season 4 of Celebrity Bainisteoir managing Aughrim GAA Club, Wicklow.

She lives in Dublin with her husband, whom she married in September 2009 in New York, and their two sons.

External links

• Amanda's column in the Sunday World