Lisa Butcher

Butcher won British Elle's first ELLE's Angels modelling competition in 1987, judged by Marie Helvin, Laraine Ashton, and photographer Terry O'Neill. Her first job after she finished school was for Ralph Lauren in New York.{{cite web|url=http://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/models/Lisa_Butcher/ |title=Lisa Butcher Profile on FMD – Lisa Butcher pictures / images |publisher=Fashionmodeldirectory.com |accessdate=28 April 2011}}

Royal photographer Norman Parkinson called Butcher the "Face of the '90s",{{Cite web|url=http://establishedmodels.com/model/1773|title=Established Models - Lisa Butcher|website=establishedmodels.com|language=en|access-date=2018-02-27}} and she appeared on the covers of Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, Harpers and Queen and Tatler. She has also appeared in numerous commercials including for Max Factor, Olympus Cameras, Vision Express, Lancaster, Vidal Sassoon, Pirelli, Clarion mascara and Onebiol moisturiser.[http://www.livingtv.co.uk/model/judges/judge1.php Judge 1], Living TV {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060424145644/http://www.livingtv.co.uk/model/judges/judge1.php |date=24 April 2006 }}

Butcher appeared regularly at the prêt-à-porter shows in Paris, Milan and New York until she became a mother for the first time in 1995. As a mother of two Butcher works exclusively from London. She has modelled for many brands, including Yves Saint Laurent, Ferritti Jeans and John Galliano. She has also been the face of Hardy Amies since 2003.

Butcher has her own jewellery collection, the Eden Collection.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/04_april/21/wear.shtml |title=Press Office – What Not To Wear returns with new presenters |publisher=BBC |date=21 April 2006 |accessdate=28 April 2011}}

Butcher first appeared on TV with an appearance on The Big Breakfast alongside Chris Evans. Due to her demanding schedule, she shelved her TV career until she appeared, years later, as the host for Living TV's Britain's Next Top Model.

After it was announced that Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine would be defecting to ITV, Butcher and her friend singer Mica Paris were announced in April 2006 as the new presenters of BBC1s fashion show What Not to Wear.

Butcher formed Libra Productions under the umbrella of Alchemy.{{cn|date=April 2021}}

Butcher married her first husband, chef Marco Pierre White, when she was 21 – Albert Roux was best man, but the union lasted just 15 weeks.{{cite web|author=Mark Palmer|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/wine/2006/07/29/edmarco29.xml&site=10&page=0 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120911083633/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/wine/2006/07/29/edmarco29.xml&site=10&page=0 |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 September 2012 |title=Marco Pierre White: I will never speak to Gordon Ramsay again |work=The Daily Telegraph|date=29 July 2006 |accessdate=28 April 2011}} They met at Tramp, the Jermyn Street nightclub, and were married three weeks later at the Brompton Oratory in Knightsbridge. White claimed{{when|date=April 2021}} that he was intoxicated by her looks, but it did not help the marriage when, after being asked by a reporter what he thought of his bride's £3,000-floor-length, backless white dress designed by Bruce Oldfield, White said she looked dressed to go down the catwalk rather than the aisle.{{cite news |url=http://living.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1870962005 |title=Model careers – Scotsman.com Living |work=The Scotsman |location=UK |accessdate=28 April 2011}}

Her partners after this have included actor Jeremy Northam, entrepreneur Damian Aspinall, Jonathan Rhys Meyers;[http://homepage.ntlworld.com/btcrick/jrm_girlfriends.htm Hannah's Jonathan Rhys Meyers Girlfriends Page] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070524095624/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/btcrick/jrm_girlfriends.htm |date=24 May 2007 }} and then 24-year-old Jacobi Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe.

Butcher's second husband was Chilean polo player Gabriel Donoso – the father of her two children – who died in 2006. Her two daughters,{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/my-perfect-weekend/6824221/My-Perfect-Weekend-Lisa-Butcher.html | title=My Perfect Weekend: Lisa Butcher | work=The Daily Telegraph | date=18 December 2009 | accessdate=22 April 2015 | author=Kelly, Tamsin}} are singer Amber Donoso{{cite web |title=Lady Garden Ambassadors Celebrate The Success Of This Years Campaign |url=https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/lisa-butcher-and-her-daughter-amber-donoso-arrive-to-news-photo/600661706?adppopup=true |website=Getty Images |access-date=8 September 2016 |quote=Lisa Butcher and her daughter Amber Donoso arrive to celebrate the success of the Lady Garden campaign on September 8, 2016 in London, United Kingdom}} and model Olivia Donoso.{{cite web |title=Lady Garden x Topshop - Private Dinner |url=https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/lisa-butcher-and-daughter-olivia-donoso-attend-a-private-news-photo/600652840?adppopup=true |website=Getty Images | date=8 September 2016 |access-date=8 September 2016 |quote=Lisa Butcher and daughter Olivia Donoso attend a private dinner to celebrate the Lady Garden x Topshop collection launch in support of the Gynaecological Cancer Fund at Albert's Club on September 8, 2016 in London, England.}}

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