Amanda Lamb
{{short description|British model and television presenter}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox model
|name = Amanda Lamb
|image = Amanda Lamb at the Pan Premiere_cropped.jpg
|image_size =
|caption = Lamb at the Pan premiere in 2015
|birth_place = Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1972|7|19}}
|hair_colour = Brown
|eye_colour = Green
|height = {{height|m=1.82}}
|occupation = TV presenter, property expert and model
|children = 2
|spouse = {{nowrap|Mike Carter (1998–2003; divorced)
{{marriage|Sean McGuinness|2012}}}}
|website =
|known_for =A Place in the Sun
You Deserve This House}}
Amanda Lamb (born 19 July 1972) is an English television presenter, property expert and former model who is notable for presenting A Place in the Sun (from 2001 until 2009) and You Deserve This House. She has also had notable appearances on various television programmes as a panellist or as a guest on shows such as The Games, Harry Hill's TV Burp and Pointless Celebrities.
Biography
Amanda Lamb was born in Portsmouth{{cite web |url=https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/ |title=The News - Portsmouth News |publisher=}} and was brought up in Havant, Hampshire. She worked as an estate agent in Havant and part-time as a barmaid for five years before becoming a model.{{Citation needed|date=April 2016}} She lives in London.
=Modelling=
In 1994, she took over the role of the "Scottish Widow" from Deborah Moore in a long-running series of advertisements for the investment company, Scottish Widows Fund and Life Assurance Society.{{cite news |last=Morrow |first=Brendan |date=23 May 2017 |title=Deborah Moore, Roger's Daughter: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know |url=https://heavy.com/entertainment/2017/05/deborah-moore-roger-daughter-actor-roles-scottish-widows-family/ |access-date=19 December 2020 |website=Heavy |language=en-US}} David Bailey once asked Lamb to glide across the screen wearing roller skates in a scene which never made the final cut. Lamb's final advert and her favourite was called "The Lighthouse", this contract lasted ten years.{{cite news |last=Emslie |first=Katie |title=Scottish Widow never forgets a face |url=http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=596642006 |newspaper=Edinburgh Evening News |date=20 April 2006 |access-date=26 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060426000524/http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=596642006 |archive-date=26 April 2006}}
In June 1998, she appeared in a silver bikini for FHM.{{Citation needed|date=April 2016}}
=Television=
In 2001, Lamb became the main presenter of the Channel 4 programme A Place in the Sun.{{cite web | url=http://www.aplaceinthesun.com/celebs/amandalamb.aspx |title=Amanda Lamb |website=A Place in the Sun |access-date=27 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151026113206/http://www.aplaceinthesun.com/celebs/amandalamb.aspx |archive-date=26 October 2015 |url-status=dead}} She also presented Hot Shots, an Epson-funded programme about digital photography, shown on Discovery Real Time, 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{{when|date=April 2020}} appears.
She co-hosted the cookery programme Market Kitchen (Good Food) and regularly appears on The Wright Stuff (Channel 5) and on Family Super Cooks (Watch).
In 2011, Lamb filmed the first of three series of My Flat-Pack Home for the Home Channel.{{cite web |url=http://www.thegardenroomguide.co.uk/my-flat-pack-home/2011/11/06/ |title=Roomworks |website=The Garden Room Guide}}{{cite web |url=http://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/v9vx/my-flat-pack-home-episode-guide/ |title=My Flat-Pack Home |website=Radio Times}} In March 2012, she began presenting You Deserve This House, a new Channel 4 daytime show in which the homes of 'community heroes' are secretly refurbished.
From 2014 to 2018, Lamb presented a prime-time property show on More4 called Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb. On 20 August 2020, she announced on Instagram that she would be presenting a new show called My Mortgage Free Home.{{cite web |title=Amanda lamb on Instagram: "Beyond excited to share with you all the news of my new series My Mortgage Free Home. I'm going to be working with families who want to…" |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CEHmCj1naXQ/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/instagram/missamandalamb/2380038229775459792 |archive-date=25 December 2021 |url-access=registration |access-date=23 August 2020 |website=Instagram}}{{cbignore}} This was to air in 2023.
=Personal life=
Lamb married Mike Carter in 1998; they divorced in 2003. Lamb married cameraman Sean McGuinness at Babington House, Somerset, in 2012{{cite news |last=Hendry |first=Steve |title=I'm building a happy family, says TV presenter Amanda Lamb |url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/tv/im-building-happy-family-says-2712495 |url-status=dead |newspaper=Daily Record |location=Glasgow |date=10 November 2013 |access-date=26 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222062255/http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/tv/im-building-happy-family-says-2712495 |archive-date=22 December 2016}} June 2012 and they have two daughters, Willow Rose (born in February 2009){{cite web |url=http://www.amandalamb.com/ |title=Amanda Lamb Biography |website=Amanda Lamb |access-date=4 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110209052909/http://www.amandalamb.com/ |archive-date=9 February 2011 |url-status=dead}} and Lottie (born in July 2013).
In 2007, Lamb bought a flat in the medieval town of Nardò in the Apulia region, southern Italy.
Lamb has supported the charities Mind, Cancer Research and Shelter.{{cite news |last=McGrath |first=Nick |title=Amanda Lamb: 'Divorce cost me my dream home in Cornwall' |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/fameandfortune/10006639/Amanda-Lamb-Divorce-cost-me-my-dream-home-in-Cornwall.html |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |date=21 April 2013}}
Filmography
= Television =
| class="wikitable"
|+ !Year(s) !Programme !Role !Notes |
| 2001–2009
| rowspan="45" |Herself | rowspan="2" |Presenter |
| 2002
|TV Mail |
| 2003
|Guest |
| 2004–2006
|Richard & Judy |Guest, 4 episodes |
| rowspan="2" |2005
|Contestant |
| Hot Shots
|Presenter, 9 episodes |
| 2006
|Panellist, 8 episodes |
| 2006–2013
|Guest panelist, 4 episodes |
| 2006–2018
|The Wright Stuff |Guest panellist, 98 episodes |
| rowspan="5" |2007
|Celebrity Big Brother's Big Mouth |Guest, 2 episodes |
| Market Kitchen
| |
| Get Me the Producer
| |
| 3 Minute Wonder
| |
| Size Matters: Celebrities on the Scales
| |
| rowspan="2" |2008
|An Audience with Neil Diamond |Audience member |
| How TV Changed Britain
| |
| rowspan="2" |2009–2010
|Angela and Friends |Guest presenter, 4 episodes |
| Countdown
|Dictionary Corner |
| 2009
| |
| rowspan="3" |2010
|Street Market Chefs |Presenter, 3 episodes |
| GMTV
| |
| Greatest Christmas TV Ads
|Presenter |
| 2010–2011
|Competition presenter, 11 episodes |
| rowspan="2" |2011
|My Flat Pack Home |Presenter |
| Al Murray's Compete for the Meat
|Contestant |
| rowspan="2" |2012
|Guest role in final episode |
| You Deserve This House
|Presenter |
| 2012–2013
|Guest, 2 episodes |
| 2013
|What's Cooking? From the Sainsbury's Kitchen | rowspan="2" |Guest |
| 2014
|Weekend Kitchen with Waitrose |
| 2014–2017
|Weekend |Guest, 2 episodes |
| 2014–2018
|Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb |Presenter |
| rowspan="3" |2015
|Guest, 1 episode |
| Flockstars
| rowspan="2" |Contestant |
| Celebrity Fifteen to One |
| 2016
|Presenter, 2 episodes |
| 2017
|Panellist |
| rowspan="2" |2018
|When Award Shows Go Horribly Wrong |Runner-up: Miss Leigh Park 1986 |
| Saturday Morning with James Martin
|Guest, 2 episode |
| rowspan="2" |2019
|Kirstie's Celebrity Craft Masters |Guest, 1 episode |
| Celebrity Chase
|Contestant |
| rowspan="2" |2020
| |
| This Morning
| |
| 2020–2021
|My Mortgage Free Home |Presenter, 11 episodes |
| 2021
|Moment of Truth | |
| 2022, 2024
|Richard Osman's House of Games | | |
| 2022
|Holiday Homes in the Sun |Co-presenter |with JB Gill & Sam Pinkham{{cite web |title=Holiday Homes in the Sun |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-dgdy8b/holiday-homes-in-the-sun-season-1/?episode=b-nagiwn |website=Radio Times |access-date=3 September 2022}} |
| 2024
|Sunshine Getaways with Amanda Lamb |Co-presenter |with JB Gill & Sam Pinkham{{cite web |title=Sunshine Getaways with Amanda Lamb |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-9cmfaz/sunshine-getaways-with-amanda-lamb-season-1/?episode=b-386yp9 |website=Radio Times |access-date=28 December 2023}} |
References
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External links
- {{iMDb name|id=1083317|name=Amanda Lamb}}
- [http://www.channel4.com/4homes/ontv/presenters/amanda_lamb.html Bio at Channel 4 Homes]
- {{Twitter|missamandalamb}}
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Category:Mass media people from Portsmouth
Category:English female models