Amanda Lamb
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Amanda Lamb was an English
television presenter and former model
.
and part time as a barmaid for five years, she then became a model
and is now a successful television presenter.
. 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. Lamb's final advert and her favourite was called "The Lighthouse", this contract lasted ten years.
In June 1998 she appeared in a silver bikini
in FHM
.
In 2008 Lamb was picked by Ortak http://www.ortak.co.uk to model their autumn jewellery collection.
programme A Place in the Sun. She also presented "Hot Shots", an Epson funded programme shown on Discovery Real Time
on 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
(on Good Food) and regularly appears on The Wright Stuff
(FIVE), also on Family Super Cooks (on Watch
).
, the jeweller to the Queen. Lamb is now engaged to cameraman Sean McGuinness and they have a daughter, Willow Rose, who was born in February 2009.
In 2007, Lamb bought herself an apartment in the medieval town of Nardò
in the Apulia
region, southern Italy
.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
television presenter and former model
Model (person)
A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....
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Biography
Amanda Lamb was born in Portsmouth and now lives in London. She worked as an estate agentEstate agent
An estate agent is a person or business that arranges the selling, renting or management of properties, and other buildings, in the United Kingdom and Ireland. An agent that specialises in renting is often called a letting or management agent...
and part time as a barmaid for five years, she then became a model
Model (person)
A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....
and is now a successful television presenter.
Modelling
In 1994 she took over the role of the "Scottish Widow" in a long-running series of advertisements for the investment company, Scottish Widows Fund and Life Assurance SocietyScottish Widows
Scottish Widows plc is a life, pensions and investment company located in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is a subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group. Its product range includes life assurance, pensions, investments and savings...
. Lamb was once asked by David Bailey to glide across the screen wearing roller skates
Roller skates
Roller skates are devices worn on the feet to enable the wearer to roll along on wheels. A first basic type of roller skate consists of a boot with four wheels with ball bearings, arranged in the same configuration as the wheels of a typical car.-History:...
in a scene which never made it to the final cut. Lamb's final advert and her favourite was called "The Lighthouse", this contract lasted ten years.
In June 1998 she appeared in a silver bikini
Bikini
The bikini is typically a women's two-piece swimsuit. One part of the attire covers the breasts and the other part covers the crotch and part of or the entire buttocks, leaving an uncovered area between the two. Merriam–Webster describes the bikini as "a woman's scanty two-piece bathing suit" or "a...
in FHM
FHM
FHM, originally published as For Him Magazine, is an international monthly men's lifestyle magazine.- History :The magazine began publication in 1985 in the United Kingdom under the name For Him and changed its title to FHM in 1994 when Emap Consumer Media bought the magazine, although the full For...
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In 2008 Lamb was picked by Ortak http://www.ortak.co.uk to model their autumn jewellery collection.
Television career
In 2001, Lamb became the main presenter of the Channel 4Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
programme A Place in the Sun. She also presented "Hot Shots", an Epson funded programme shown on Discovery Real Time
Discovery Real Time
Discovery Real Time is a factual television channel owned by Discovery Networks Europe.It was originally launched in the UK in March 1992 as TLC, a British version of the US channel of the same name...
on 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
Market Kitchen
Market Kitchen is a cookery programme, made by Optomen, that premiered on Good Food in 2007. Presented by Rachel Allen, Amanda Lamb, Matt Tebbutt, Tom Parker Bowles and Matthew Fort, the programme concentrates on seasonal cooking and features visits to a local market to obtain seasonal produce...
(on Good Food) and regularly appears on The Wright Stuff
The Wright Stuff
The Wright Stuff is a British television chat show, hosted by Matthew Wright, and currently airing on Channel 5 each weekday morning from 9:15 to 11:10am....
(FIVE), also on Family Super Cooks (on Watch
Watch (TV channel)
Watch is a general entertainment channel broadcasting in the United Kingdom and Ireland, as part of the UKTV network. The channel launched on 7 October 2008 on satellite through Sky and on cable primarily through Virgin Media.-History:...
).
Personal life
Lamb was previously married but she and her husband divorced in 2003. She later traded in her engagement ring for an art deco designer ring that had been designed by Harry CollinsHarry Collins
Harry Collins is a British professor at the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. While at the University of Bath Professor Collins developed the Bath School approach to the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge...
, the jeweller to the Queen. Lamb is now engaged to cameraman Sean McGuinness and they have a daughter, Willow Rose, who was born in February 2009.
In 2007, Lamb bought herself an apartment in the medieval town of Nardò
Nardò
Nardò is a town and comune of 31,185 inhabitants and comune in the southern Italian region of Apulia, in the province of Lecce.-History:...
in the Apulia
Apulia
Apulia is a region in Southern Italy bordering the Adriatic Sea in the east, the Ionian Sea to the southeast, and the Strait of Òtranto and Gulf of Taranto in the south. Its most southern portion, known as Salento peninsula, forms a high heel on the "boot" of Italy. The region comprises , and...
region, southern Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
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