Mark Simpkin (born 18 September 1972) was born in Ashton,

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and is an English

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Lockers & Furniture

Simpkin began his career selling lockers and changing room equipment to public and private sector clients.

Property

Simpkin's company obtained planning permission to develop the local St Johns Church in Bollington in to 13 apartments. It was originally set to be completed in 2018, but continued economic downturn, and the

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led to the site falling into disrepair. A new planning application was submitted in 2022. Most recently, Simpkin obtained planning permission for England's largest private natural burial ground in Adlington,

, in conjunction with the historic

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estate.

Travel

Simpkin set up "Simply Luxury Travel", with his wife

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specialising in luxury holidays for footballer, celebrity and high net worth clients.

Media

Simpkin was a presenter for an ITV1 programme called ''I Want That House'', about buying property abroad. He presented over 100 shows, like GMTV's ''

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'', ''

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'', and ITV's ''

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'', where he presented a property segment called ''Property Police''. He also presented regular reports for BBC1's ''Holiday''. Having missed out on a place in boy band ''

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'', he went into acting, appearing in ITV1's ''

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'' as the character Craig Brennan. Simpkin had roles in Zig Zag, an educational children's series on BBC2, a live reporter on ''The Totally Friday Show'',

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and the Granada Regional Newsroom. Simpkin hosted nationwide youth conferences with Sir

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for

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. The road show promoted

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in Great Britain.

Family

He was married to actress and singer

. They have two sons, born in 2003 and 2008. They split in May 2021 after 18 years of marriage.

References

External links

Simply Luxury Travel

Adlington Memorial Park

Simply Lockers

Simply Tables & Chairs
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