Amanda Lamb
Amanda Lamb | |
|---|---|
 Amanda Lamb at the Pan Premiere | |
| Born | 19 July 1972 Portsmouth, Hampshire, England |
| Occupation | TV presenter |
| Spouse(s) | Mike Carter (1998–2003; divorced) Sean McGuinness (m. 2012) |
| Children | 2 |
| Modelling information | |
| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) |
| Hair colour | Brown |
| Eye colour | Green |
Amanda Lamb (born 19 July 1972) is an English television presenter and former model.
Biography
Amanda Lamb was born in Portsmouth[1] and was brought up in Havant, Hampshire. She now lives in London. She worked as an estate agent in Havant and part-time as a barmaid for five years before becoming a model.[citation needed] She is currently a television presenter.
Modelling
In 1994, she took over the role of the "Scottish Widow" from British Actress Deborah Moore[2] in a long-running series of advertisements for the investment company, Scottish Widows Fund and Life Assurance Society. Lamb was once asked by David Bailey to glide across the screen wearing roller skates in a scene which never made it to the final cut.[3] Lamb's final advert and her favourite was called "The Lighthouse", this contract lasted ten years.[3]
In June 1998, she appeared in a silver bikini for FHM.[citation needed]
Television
In 2001, Lamb became the main presenter of the Channel 4 programme A Place in the Sun.[4] She also presented "Hot Shots", an Epson-funded programme shown on Discovery Real Time about digital photography which was notable as being the last television appearance of photographer Patrick Lichfield.
She competed in the reality television show The Games in March 2006. Lamb then returned to filming A Place in the Sun, in which she still appears.
She co-hosted the cookery programme Market Kitchen (Good Food) and regularly appears on The Wright Stuff (Channel 5), also on Family Super Cooks (Watch).
In 2011 Lamb filmed the first of three series of My Flat-Pack Home for the Home Channel[5][6]. In March 2012, she began presenting You Deserve This House, a new Channel 4 daytime show in which the homes of 'community heroes' are secretly refurbished.
She currently presents a prime time property show on More4 called Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb.
Personal life
Lamb was previously married but divorced in 2003. Lamb married cameraman Sean McGuinness at Babington House, Somerset, in 2012[7] and they have two daughters, Willow Rose (born in February 2009)[8] and Lottie (born in July 2013).
In 2007, Lamb bought a flat in the medieval town of Nardò in the Apulia region, southern Italy.[8]
Lamb has supported the charities Mind, Cancer Research and Shelter.[9]
References
- ^ "The News - Portsmouth News".
- ^ "HugeDomains.com - Nci-Management.com is for sale (Nci- Management)". www.nci-management.com.
{{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help) - ^ a b Edinburgh Evening News Archived 2006-04-26 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Amanda Lamb". www.aplaceinthesun.com.
- ^ "Roomworks".
- ^ "My Flat-Pack Home Series and Episode Guides - TV from RadioTimes". Radio Times.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-12-22. Retrieved 2016-12-11.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) June 2012 - ^ a b "Amanda Lamb Biography". Archived from the original on 2011-02-09. Retrieved 2011-02-04.
- ^ McGrath, Nick (21 April 2013). "Amanda Lamb: 'Divorce cost me my dream home in Cornwall'" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.