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Annabel Giles
Born(1959-05-20)20 May 1959
Pontypool, Wales
Died20 November 2023(2023-11-20) (aged 64)
Hove, England
Occupation(s)Presenter, actress, novelist, model
Spouse
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(m. 1985; div. 1989)​
Children2, including Molly Lorenne
WebsiteOfficial website

Annabel Claire Giles (20 May 1959 – 20 November 2023)[1] was a Welsh television and radio presenter. She also worked as a counsellor, psychotherapist, model, actress, and novelist.[2]

Early life

Giles was born in Griffithstown, near Pontypool, Monmouthshire, Wales, the eldest of three sisters.[3][4] She was expelled from boarding school aged 16 for going to see Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel play in Bristol, where she was seen smoking in the street.[4]

Career

Between 1977 and 1982, she trained and worked as a secretary, mostly employed in advertising agencies, which is where she was "discovered".[5][4] Giles was then signed up by top agency Models 1, and became the official model for Max Factor.[4]

She started her media career in the 1990s on Razzmatazz and Night Network, and appeared in the 1993 film Riders.[6] She came to prominence as co-presenter of ITV's Posh Frocks and New Trousers with Sarah Greene.[4] She was in numerous entertainment shows, and a panellist on game shows ranging from Have I Got News for You to Shooting Stars.[7] She was a regular panellist on Through the Keyhole[7] and BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends and also appeared on BBC Radio 4's Just a Minute, and on Noel Edmonds' House Party.[5][8]

In 1995, Giles wrote and performed a one-woman show at the Edinburgh Festival called Looking for Mr. Giles, and a second show the following year, Anyone Can Be A TV Presenter.[9]

Giles' first novel, Birthday Girls, reached number six in the top ten on the best-seller lists in 2001.[4] She published Crossing the Paradise Line in 2003 and The Defrosting of Charlotte Small in 2006.[5]

In November 2013, Giles and Vincent Simone entered the Australian jungle as late arrivals in the 13th season of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.[10] Giles was the first celebrity to leave the jungle, on 1 December.[11][12][13]

From 2014, Giles regularly guested on the Channel 5 chat show The Wright Stuff hosted by Matthew Wright.[14] In summer 2018 she appeared on ITV2's My Shirley Valentine Summer and was the resident agony aunt on the Eleri Siôn show for BBC Radio Wales.[14]

After retraining, she worked as a counsellor and psychotherapist in Brighton and London.[15][14] Giles was a patron of the charity for parents of children with special needs, Amaze Brighton.[14]

Personal life, illness and death

In 1985, Giles married the lead singer of Ultravox, Midge Ure.[16] Their daughter, Molly Lorenne, was born in March 1987.[16] Lorenne became the lead singer of pop punk group The Faders.[16] Giles and Ure separated in 1989.[17] Giles had a son who was born with XYY syndrome and Asperger syndrome; in 2011, having written a blog outlining the difficulties in educating a child with these issues, she received help from an anonymous benefactor towards his education.[18][19]

In July 2023, Giles was diagnosed with a brain tumour.[14] On 20 November 2023, she died at Martlets Hospice in Hove, aged 64.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Birthdays", The Guardian, p. 39, 20 May 2014
  2. ^ "Annabel Giles". NoPanic. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  3. ^ "TV presenter and actress Annabel Giles dies following brain tumour diagnosis". Chester Standard. 21 November 2023. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "I knew I had one last thing to do". The Telegraph. 2 July 2003. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  5. ^ a b c d Murray, Tom; Muir, Ellie (21 November 2023). "Annabel Giles, actor and TV star, dies suddenly aged 64". The Independent. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  6. ^ "Annabel Giles: TV presenter and actress dies". BBC News. 21 November 2023. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  7. ^ a b Rowlands, Robert (21 November 2023). "Children heartbroken as TV presenter and I'm A Celebrity star Annabel Giles dies". Coventry Telegraph. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  8. ^ Ambrose, Tom (21 November 2023). "TV presenter and actor Annabel Giles dies aged 64". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  9. ^ "Annabel Giles". Penguin UK. 7 August 2017. Archived from the original on 7 August 2017. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  10. ^ "I'm A Celebrity 2013: Strictly's Vincent Simone and model Annabel". The Independent. 21 November 2013. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  11. ^ "Annabel Leaves The Jungle". HuffPost UK. 2 December 2013. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  12. ^ Wright, Alice (1 December 2013). "I'm a Celeb – Annabel Giles is evicted". Metro. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  13. ^ Busk-Cowley, Mark (2014). I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!: The Inside Story. Bantam Press. p. 140. ISBN 978-0593073483.
  14. ^ a b c d e Smith, Steven (21 November 2023). "TV presenter Annabel Giles has died after brain tumour diagnosis". Nottinghamshire Live. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  15. ^ "Annabel Giles, Dip.Couns, Reg'd BACP". www.counselling-directory.org.uk. 31 March 2022. Archived from the original on 31 March 2022. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  16. ^ a b c "Midge Ure and his daughter Molly". The Sunday Times. 16 April 2006. Archived from the original on 31 August 2011.
  17. ^ "Ure separates". The Glasgow Herald. 6 July 1989. p. 6. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
  18. ^ "TV presenter Annabel Giles selling home to pay school fees". The Telegraph. 12 July 2011. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  19. ^ "TV presenter Annabel Giles reveals mystery benefactor has paid her son's school fees". The Telegraph. 6 September 2011. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
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