Amanda Lamb

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Amanda Lamb
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Lamb at the Pan premiere in 2015
Born (1972-07-19) 19 July 1972 (age 51)
Occupation(s)TV presenter, property expert and model
Known for A Place in the Sun
You Deserve This House
Spouse(s)Mike Carter (1998–2003; divorced)
Sean McGuinness
(m. 2012)
Children2
Modelling information
Height1.82 m (5 ft 11+12 in)
Hair colourBrown
Eye colourGreen

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 .

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Biography

Amanda Lamb was born in Portsmouth [1] 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 ] 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. [2] 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. [3]

In June 1998, she appeared in a silver bikini for FHM .[ citation needed ]

Television

In 2001, Lamb became the main presenter of the Channel 4 programme A Place in the Sun . [4] 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? ] 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. [5] [6] 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. [7] 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 [8] and they have two daughters, Willow Rose (born in February 2009) [9] and Lottie (born in July 2013).

In 2007, Lamb bought a flat in the medieval town of Nardò in the Apulia region, southern Italy. [9]

Lamb has supported the charities Mind, Cancer Research and Shelter. [10]

Filmography

Television

Year(s)ProgrammeRoleNotes
2001–2009 A Place in the Sun HerselfPresenter
2002TV Mail
2003 RI:SE Guest
2004–2006Richard & JudyGuest, 4 episodes
2005 The Weakest Link Contestant
Hot ShotsPresenter, 9 episodes
2006 The Games Panellist, 8 episodes
2006–2013 Loose Women Guest panelist, 4 episodes
2006–2018The Wright StuffGuest panellist, 98 episodes
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
2008An Audience with Neil DiamondAudience member
How TV Changed Britain
2009–2010Angela and FriendsGuest presenter, 4 episodes
Countdown Dictionary Corner
2009 Pride of Britain Awards
2010Street Market ChefsPresenter, 3 episodes
GMTV
Greatest Christmas TV AdsPresenter
2010–2011 Daybreak Competition presenter, 11 episodes
2011My Flat Pack HomePresenter
Al Murray's Compete for the Meat Contestant
2012 Harry Hill's TV Burp Guest role in final episode
You Deserve This HousePresenter
2012–2013 Sunday Brunch Guest, 2 episodes
2013What's Cooking? From the Sainsbury's KitchenGuest
2014Weekend Kitchen with Waitrose
2014–2017WeekendGuest, 2 episodes
2014–2018Selling Houses with Amanda LambPresenter
2015 Lorraine Guest, 1 episode
Flockstars Contestant
Celebrity Fifteen to One
2016 The Saturday Show Presenter, 2 episodes
2017 Pointless Celebrities Panellist
2018When Award Shows Go Horribly WrongRunner-up: Miss Leigh Park 1986
Saturday Morning with James Martin Guest, 2 episode
2019Kirstie's Celebrity Craft MastersGuest, 1 episode
Celebrity Chase Contestant
2020 Jeremy Vine
This Morning
2020–2021My Mortgage Free HomePresenter, 11 episodes
2021Moment of Truth
2022, 2024Richard Osman's House of Games
2022Holiday Homes in the SunCo-presenterwith JB Gill & Sam Pinkham [11]
2024Sunshine Getaways with Amanda LambCo-presenterwith JB Gill & Sam Pinkham [12]

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