Amanda Lamb
Amanda Lamb | |
|---|---|
| Born | 19 July 1972 |
| Modelling information | |
| Height | 5 ft 11.5 in (1.82 m)[1] |
| Hair colour | brown |
| Eye colour | Green |
Amanda Lamb (born 19 July 1972 in Portsmouth, Hampshire) is an English television presenter and former model.
Biography
Amanda Lamb was born in Portsmouth[3] and now lives in London. She worked as an estate agent and part time as a barmaid for five years, she then became a model and is now a successful television presenter.
Modelling
In 1994 she took over the role of the "Scottish Widow"[4] 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.[5] Lamb's final advert and her favourite was called "The Lighthouse", this contract lasted ten years.[5]
In June 1998 she appeared in a silver bikini in FHM.
In 2008 Lamb was picked by Ortak [1] to model their autumn jewellery collection.
Television career
In 2001, Lamb became the main presenter of the Channel 4 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).
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 Collins, 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.[6]
In 2007, Lamb bought herself an apartment in the medieval town of Nardò in the Apulia region, southern Italy.[6]