Amanda Lamb (born 19 July 1972) is an English

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, 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

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and was brought up in

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, Hampshire. She worked as an

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in Havant and part-time as a barmaid for five years before becoming a model. 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. David Bailey once asked Lamb to glide across the screen wearing

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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. In June 1998, she appeared in a silver

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for '' FHM''.

Television

In 2001, Lamb became the main presenter of the

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programme '' A Place in the Sun''. 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 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'' (

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). In 2011, Lamb filmed the first of three series of ''My Flat-Pack Home'' for the Home Channel. 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

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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''. 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 and they have two daughters, Willow Rose (born in February 2009) and Lottie (born in July 2013). In 2007, Lamb bought a flat in the medieval town of Nardò in the

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region, southern Italy. Lamb has supported the charities Mind, Cancer Research and Shelter.

Filmography

Television

References

External links

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Bio at Channel 4 Homes
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lamb, Amanda 1972 births Living people Mass media people from Portsmouth English female models English television presenters People from Havant Models from Hampshire