Tris Payne is a television presenter, best known for appearances on Wish You Were Here...?

Wish You Were Here...?

Wish You Were Here...? is a British television show that was first broadcast on 7th January 1974 on ITV. It was a series of 30 minute shows about travel and holidays. The show was broadcast during peak viewing hours and had gained a significant viewing audience in the UK...

and House Doctor

House Doctor

This article is about the original TV show, The House Doctor which featured Ann Maurice; originally broadcast in the UK the show is now reaching a global audience.For the San Francisco Bay area interior designer known as the "House Doctor", see Lisa Quinn...

, as well as Real Rooms on BBC1, Hot Property

Hot Property

Hot Property is a Channel 5 show originally broadcast from 1997 to 1998 hosted by Sandy Mitchell and then revived from 5 November 2001 to 11 July 2003 originally hosted by Tris Payne but then was replaced by Alice Beer.-Transmissions:-External links:...

on Channel 5, and This Morning

This Morning (TV series)

This Morning is a British daytime television programme broadcast on ITV. As of September 2011, its main presenters are Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby, and Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes, with various other presenters standing in for illness or contributing to sections of the programme.The...

on ITV

ITV

ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

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Career

Payne's career in TV began as a presenter and journalist on Television South West

Television South West

Television South West was the ITV franchise holder for the South West England region from 1 January 1982 until 31 December 1992, broadcasting from the former Westward Television studios in Plymouth, Devon.-Origins and Launch:...

.http://www.btinternet.com/~rob.frowen/presenters_p.html He was later picked up as a roving reporter on Wish You Were Here? for ITV

ITV

ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

. His move to Find a Fortune with Carol Vorderman

Carol Vorderman

Carol Jean Vorderman MBE is a British media personality, best known for co-hosting the popular game show Countdown for 26 years from 1982 to 2008. In September 2011 she became a co-anchor of the ITV1 panel show Loose Women....

 was followed by BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 work on Real Rooms and Real Wrecks. He then moved to Five for a series of House Doctor

House Doctor

This article is about the original TV show, The House Doctor which featured Ann Maurice; originally broadcast in the UK the show is now reaching a global audience.For the San Francisco Bay area interior designer known as the "House Doctor", see Lisa Quinn...

with Ann Maurice

Ann Maurice

Ann Maurice is an American interior designer and house stager, and is perhaps best known in the UK as Channel Five's The House Doctor. She also hosted two series of Ann Maurice: Interior Rivalry for the same channel in 2006-2007.-Personal life:She now lives in San Francisco, California, with her...

, followed by Hot Property

Hot Property

Hot Property is a Channel 5 show originally broadcast from 1997 to 1998 hosted by Sandy Mitchell and then revived from 5 November 2001 to 11 July 2003 originally hosted by Tris Payne but then was replaced by Alice Beer.-Transmissions:-External links:...

and UKTV Style

UKTV Style

Home is an interior home and garden-oriented lifestyle television channel broadcasting in the United Kingdom, as part of the UKTV network of channels. The channel originally launched on 1 November 1997 and relaunched in it's current format on 30 April 2009...

 presenting Home Wasn't Built In A Day.

Payne has a love of motorcycles and all things mechanical, filming Boys' Toys for Carlton and ITV's Pulling Power,; his love of cars has led him to writing regular columns for both the Daily Express

Daily Express

The Daily Express switched from broadsheet to tabloid in 1977 and was bought by the construction company Trafalgar House in the same year. Its publishing company, Beaverbrook Newspapers, was renamed Express Newspapers...

and Esquire. Payne has also written and co-produced two series for Carlton Television

Carlton Television

Carlton Television was the ITV franchise holder for London and the surrounding counties including the cities of Solihull and Coventry of the West Midlands, south Suffolk, middle and east Hampshire, Oxfordshire, south Bedfordshire, south Northamptonshire, parts of Herefordshire & Worcestershire,...

, one of which earned him a Royal Television Society

Royal Television Society

The Royal Television Society is a British-based educational charity for the discussion, and analysis of television in all its forms, past, present and future. It is the oldest television society in the world...

 Award.

Payne also runs a successful independent production company called Liverpool Street Productions (LSPTV) based in London and Devon. Recent commissions include Fighter Pilot Afghanistan, a six-part series for ITV, and two one-hour films on the Spanish Civil War for The History Channel

The History Channel

History, formerly known as The History Channel, is an American-based international satellite and cable TV channel that broadcasts a variety of reality shows and documentary programs including those of fictional and non-fictional historical content, together with speculation about the future.-...

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Personal Life

Payne lives in Exeter, Devon with his wife and two children. He enjoys motorsports, cars and travel in his spare time. During his late teenage years and early twenties, Payne enjoyed keeping horses and taking part in Cross Country events.