:Kirstie Allsopp
{{Short description|British television presenter (born 1971)}}
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| name = Kirstie Allsopp
| birthname = Kirstie Mary Allsopp
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|8|31|df=y}}
| birth_place = Hampstead, London, England{{Cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/a-life-in-the-day-property-expert-kirstie-allsopp-p9dmhxngv |title=A Life in the Day: property expert Kirstie Allsopp |first=Jeremy |last=Taylor |via=www.thetimes.co.uk |url-access=subscription}}
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| occupation = TV presenter
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| domestic_partner = Ben Andersen
| children = 2
| father = Charles Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip
| relatives = Sofie Allsopp (sister)
Cath Kidston (cousin)
| credits = {{bulleted|Location, Location, Location|Love It or List It|Relocation, Relocation|Location Revisited}}
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Kirstie Mary Allsopp{{cite news |title=Kirstie Allsopp: 'I'm too opinionated for politics' |author=Bryony Gordon |author-link=Bryony Gordon |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/5115713/Kirstie-Allsopp-no-nonsense-enthusiastic-and-exactly-as-she-comes-across-on-TV.html |newspaper=The Telegraph | quote = the Honourable Kirstie Allsopp (her father is the sixth Baron Hindlip)... |date=7 April 2009 |access-date=31 December 2010 |location=London}} (born 31 August 1971)[https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/oct/19/kirstie-allsopp-house-of-lords "Pass notes No 2,666: Kirstie Allsopp"] The Guardian (19 October 2009). Retrieved 6 January 2010. is a British television presenter, best known as co-presenter of Channel 4 property shows including Location, Location, Location, Love It or List It UK, Relocation, Relocation and Location Revisited.
Background
Allsopp is the eldest child and daughter of Charles Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip, a former chairman of Christie's, by his marriage to Fiona Victoria Jean Atherley McGowan (1947–2014).{{cite news | url=https://www.mylondon.news/news/celebs/channel-4-love-list-it-21108652 | title=Channel 4 Love It or List It: Kirstie Allsopp's seriously posh connection to Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall | date=21 July 2021 | work=MyLondon | author=Sylvie Wilkinson | accessdate=8 February 2022 }}{{cite news | url=https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/property-home/article/charles-allsopp-the-auctioneer-and-kirsties-dad-on-his-new-build-country-pile-5p7fjjv8j | title=The former Christie's chairman, father of Kirstie, has an expert eye for beauty | author=Karen Robinson | work=The Times | date=4 December 2016 | access-date=8 February 2022 }} She has a younger brother, Henry William (b. 1973), and two younger sisters, Sofie (b. 1980) and Natasha Fiona (b. 1986).{{Cite news |date=2010-10-29 |title=Kirstie Allsopp |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/oct/30/kirstie-allsopp-my-family-values |access-date=2023-11-25 |issn=0261-3077}} Owing to her father's peerage, she is entitled to use the courtesy style The Honourable Kirstie Allsopp.{{cite web |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10333484/Kirstie-Allsopp-I-dont-do-things-I-dont-want-to-succeed-in.html |title=Kirstie Allsopp: 'I don't do things I don't want to succeed in' |author= Sarah Rainey |date= 25 September 2013|work=Daily Telegraph }} The designer and businesswoman Cath Kidston is her cousin.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/aug/09/cath-kidston-recession-floral-empire|title=Queen of florals Cath Kidston bucks the recession to profit from love of nostalgia | Life and style | The Guardian|last=Wood|first=Zoe|date=9 August 2009|access-date=29 April 2011|location=London}}{{cite news | last = Layton | first = Josh | title = Stranger relatives: Holly Valance is related to Benny Hill and the celebrities with fame in the family... | url = https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/holly-valance-and-benny-hill-and-the-strangest-822261 | access-date = 10 October 2012 | newspaper = Daily Mirror | date = 7 May 2012 }}
She attended ten schools as a child,[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10139413.stm Five minutes With: Kirstie Allsopp], BBC News Online, 22 May 2010.{{Cite news |date=2010-10-29 |title=Kirstie Allsopp |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/oct/30/kirstie-allsopp-my-family-values |access-date=2023-11-25 |issn=0261-3077}} including St Clotilde's in Lechlade, Gloucestershire,[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3344552/Class-act.html Kirsty Allsopp: Class act], The Daily Telegraph, 25 September 2004. and Bedales near Petersfield, Hampshire. After spending time in India teaching English, Allsopp returned to the UK and began a series of positions, working for Country Living and Food & Home magazines and at Hindlip & Prentice Interiors, and she studied Art History at Christie's.{{cite web|url= http://www.channel4.com/4homes/ontv/presenters/kirstie_allsopp.html |title= Kirstie Allsopp's biography |work= channel4.com |date= 24 June 2008|access-date=14 September 2008 |archive-date= 14 September 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080914214416/http://www.channel4.com/4homes/on-tv/location-location-location/about-kirstie-allsopp/about-kirstie-allsopp-08-06-24_p_1.html}}
Allsopp set up her own home search company, Kirmir, in 1996, focusing on top end purchases in Central and West London.{{cite web|url=http://www.speakerscorner.co.uk/file/fd1f93b903aab626831bf8eef9e81012/kirstie-allsopp-tv-location-property-broadcaster-presenter.html|title=Kirstie Allsopp - Awards Hosts & Presenter - Speakers Corner|author=Speakers Corner|publisher=Speakerscorner.co.uk|access-date=15 January 2015}}
In August 2014, Allsopp was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue.{{cite web|url= https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/aug/07/celebrities-open-letter-scotland-independence-full-text |title=Celebrities' open letter to Scotland – full text and list of signatories | Politics |publisher=theguardian.com |date=7 August 2014 |access-date=26 August 2014}}
Personal life
Her husband (since January 2025) is property developer Ben Andersen,[https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/pub-latimer-road-the-volunteer-kirsty-allsopp-ariadnes-wentworth-andersen-b1179331.html West London pub frequented by The Clash and Blur approved to re-open], The Evening Standard, 31 August 2024. and they have two sons, Bay (b. 2006) and Oscar (b. 2008).[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/5115713/Kirstie-Allsopp-no-nonsense-enthusiastic-and-exactly-as-she-comes-across-on-TV.html Kirstie Allsopp: no-nonsense, enthusiastic and exactly as she comes across on TV], The Daily Telegraph, 7 April 2009. She is also stepmother to her partner's two sons from a previous relationship. They live in London.{{Cite news |date=2010-10-29 |title=Kirstie Allsopp |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/oct/30/kirstie-allsopp-my-family-values |access-date=2023-11-25 |issn=0261-3077}}
In 2009 Allsopp and her family bought and restored a house called Meadowgate, in rural Devon. It had been empty for 39 years. The restoration and interior decorating were the subject of the TV series Kirstie's Homemade Home.ThisIsNorthDevon – [http://www.thisisnorthdevon.co.uk/Kirstie-Allsopp-s-rural-retreat-available-rent/story-11837434-detail/story.html Kirstie Allsopp's rural retreat available for rent] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009161505/http://www.thisisnorthdevon.co.uk/Kirstie-Allsopp-s-rural-retreat-available-rent/story-11837434-detail/story.html |date=9 October 2013 }}, 24 April 2009. It was again the setting for her Kirstie's Homemade Christmas programme, showing people how to have an individual Christmas using secondhand and homemade products such as wreaths from material found from nearby woods.The Guardian – [https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2009/dec/09/kirstie-allsopp-christmas-homemade Kirstie's homemade Christmas: do not try this at home?], 9 December 2009.
Allsopp was criticised in 2022 for comments she made about people not being able to purchase housing, arguing many people are not willing to make enough sacrifices like cutting out coffee, Netflix, and going to the gym. Allsopp, who received financial support from her family to purchase her first home, claimed "...there are loads of people who can [make sacrifices] and don’t." Following criticism Allsopp posted several responses on Twitter before quitting the platform.{{cite web | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/kirstie-allsopp-buying-home-young-b2009026.html | title=Kirstie Allsopp says 'there are loads of people' who could buy a home but don't | website=Independent.co.uk | date=7 February 2022 }}
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