Tania Strecker is a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 model

Model (person)

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 and television presenter in the UK.

Her break into TV began with Channel 4

Channel 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...

's Naked Elvis

Naked Elvis

Naked Elvis was a late-night British television quiz show on Channel 4, hosted by Tania Strecker.Two teams of students would answer general knowledge questions. There was a scoremaster dressed as Elvis Presley, who would remove one item of clothing between each round until he was naked....

, and she then co-hosted MTV

MTV

MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

's SELECT with Richard Blackwood

Richard Blackwood

Richard Blackwood , is an English comedian, media personality, occasional actor and MC. Blackwood is step-brother of Naomi Campbell after his father was married to her mother for a time...

. After a couple of more presenting jobs, she joined The Big Breakfast

The Big Breakfast

The Big Breakfast was a British light entertainment television show shown on Channel 4 and S4C each weekday morning from 28 September 1992 until 29 March 2002 during which period 2,482 shows were produced. The Big Breakfast was produced by Planet 24, the production company co-owned by former...

with Richard Bacon

Richard Bacon (television presenter)

Richard Paul Bacon is an English television and radio presenter.Bacon's first high-profile media role was as a presenter of Blue Peter, from which he was sacked in 1998 following newspaper reports of him taking cocaine...

, and then Beachmate.

Physique

At 6 feet (1.8 m) tall, Strecker is frequently featured in the press and various men's magazines, primarily due to her incredibly long 37 inches (94 cm) legs — known as the Streckers. "Small girls may have the advantage when young, but tall ones usually win in the end," says Strecker. After implying in a radio interview that she was still Guy Ritchie

Guy Ritchie

Guy Stuart Ritchie is an English screenwriter and film maker who directed Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Revolver, RocknRolla and Sherlock Holmes.-Early life:...

's girlfriend

Girlfriend

Girlfriend is a term that can refer to either a female partner in a non-marital romantic relationship or a female non-romantic friend that is closer than other friends....

 when he started seeing Madonna

Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...

, Strecker declared that Madonna "is frightened of me. That's because I am so tall and she is so small."

Personal life

She is the daughter of Maren Enthoven, an ex-model, and her stepfather, David Strecker and spent most of her life in London

London

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, but spent 2 years between the ages 5–7 in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, the U.S. Her mother divorced her father, an asset manager when she was very young. Strecker is of Danish (mother) and Argentinian (father) descent.

Her ex-boyfriend

Boyfriend

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s include Alastair Patterson (IT Boy & Entrepreneur) Guy Ritchie

Guy Ritchie

Guy Stuart Ritchie is an English screenwriter and film maker who directed Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Revolver, RocknRolla and Sherlock Holmes.-Early life:...

, and Robbie Williams

Robbie Williams

Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams is an English singer-songwriter, vocal coach and occasional actor. He is a member of the pop group Take That. Williams rose to fame in the band's first run in the early- to mid-1990s. After many disagreements with the management and certain group members, Williams...

. Her break-up with Guy Ritchie is the inspiration for the Robbie Williams/Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasional guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards....

 song "She's Madonna

She's Madonna

"She's Madonna" is the third and final international single released from Robbie Williams's seventh studio album Rudebox. A collaboration with the Pet Shop Boys, it is a love song to pop star Madonna and was released on 5 March 2007. A promotional copy was released to European radio in late January...

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She has a daughter, Mia (born 1996), from a previous relationship with pubowner, James Mosbacher. They married, when she was 22, though the marriage was short-lived.

In 2005 she married Anthony James de Rothschild

Anthony James de Rothschild

Anthony James de Rothschild is Co-managing Director of Brighton based A7 music and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England....

, eldest son of Sir Evelyn de Rothschild and Victoria Schott.

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