Saira Khan
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| Saira Khan | |
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| Born | 15 May 1970 Long Eaton, England |
| Occupation | TV presenter, entrepreneur |
| Spouse(s) | Steve Hyde |
| Children | Zachariah |
Saira Khan (born 15 May 1970 in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, England) is a British television personality and was the runner-up on the first UK series of reality TV show The Apprentice in 2005.
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[edit] Television career
Khan has since become a regular face on British TV. In 2006 she presented on the BBC's Temper Your Temper, a programme dealing with anger management, and British-Asian lifestyle show Desi DNA. She has presented several documentaries for the BBC and ITV, as well as appearing as a guest on a variety of shows such as Ready Steady Cook. She currently (2008) hosts the BBC children's programme Beat the Boss and presented an edition of the BBC's Money Programme about entrepreneurial mothers. She is a columnist for the Daily Mirror, a regular panelist for BBC Radio 5 Live and has appeared on a number of other stations including BBC Radio 4 and the BBC Asian Network. She has also written a self-help book, P.U.S.H. For Success. In 2006 she set up a new campaign called OUR SAY to campaign for local and national referenda on issues of major public interest.[1] Khan also runs her own baby-products business called miamoo, and an orienteering business called "West Is East".[2]
She also regularly participates in The One Show along side Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley[citation needed].
Khan also appeared in Mastermind Celebrity Edition where she came 4th.
[edit] Parents and her early life
Khan's parents emigrated from Azad Kashmir to England in 1965.
At home they spoke only Urdu and Pahari with her mother not speaking any English. Her parents were eager for her to have an arranged marriage but could not find a match – "My parents were from an arranged marriage and wanted the same for me. My mother would invite young men to the house and get me to serve them tea on a tray. I didn't fancy any of them. It was just like East Is East."
Khan went to Brighton Polytechnic and then on to the University of Nottingham
Her father died from a heart attack in 1998 while visiting relatives in Kashmir – "I was absolutely devastated. For the first time I felt really alone."
[edit] Marriage and personal life
While working at United Biscuits in 2002 Khan met the man who later became her husband: Steve Hyde. "I knew instantly that Steve was the one," said Khan. "I had a mental tick-list of what I wanted in a person. It was never about the looks although of course he is a handsome man. He was career-minded and I never wanted to be hanging around with a lazy biscuit-eating slob. Keeping fit was a big part of his life, and mine, and he liked a hot, biscuity curry. He ticked all my boxes." Her mother however was initially opposed to the union. "I never introduced Steve as a boyfriend," said Khan. "She was furious at first but she's come round. She prefers cakes, not biscuits. I was the first girl in my family to marry outside the culture."
In 2008 Khan gave birth to a baby boy, Zacariah. She had been diagnosed with endometritis, but was able to conceive her child naturally.
[edit] Notes
- ^ http://www.our-say.org/
- ^ "Asian women earn 28% less than white", The Independent, 22 October 2006
[edit] External links
- OUR SAY campaign website - this link cannot be found - Feb 2009
- Saira Khan Official Site
- Beat the Boss (BBC Press Office)
- Saira Khan at the Internet Movie Database
- MediaAmbitions : Saira Khan
- Woman's Hour: Saira Khan
- 60 SECONDS: Saira Khan Metro
- Interview in Marie Claire
- Pushy Saira's aiming for business success
- icBerkshire 'I'm an entrepreneur - not an apprentice'
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