Kirstie Mary Allsopp (born 31 August 1971) is a British television presenter, best known as co-presenter of

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property shows including ''

Location, Location, Location ''Location, Location, Location'' is a British reality property programme that has aired on Channel 4 since 17 May 2000 and is presented by Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer. The show follows Allsopp and Spencer as they try to find the perfect ...

'', '' Love It or List It UK'', ''

Relocation, Relocation ''Location, Location, Location'' is a British reality property programme that has aired on Channel 4 since 17 May 2000 and is presented by Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer. The show follows Allsopp and Spencer as they try to find the perfect ...

'' and ''Location Revisited''.

Background

Allsopp is the eldest child and daughter of

Charles Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip Charles Henry Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip (5 August 1940 – 5 June 2024), was a British hereditary peer and businessman, a member of the House of Lords from 1993 until 1999. His main career was in Christie's, the fine arts auction house, of wh ...

, a former chairman of

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, by his marriage to Fiona Victoria Jean Atherley McGowan (1947–2014). She has a younger brother, Henry William (b. 1973), and two younger sisters, Sofie (b. 1980) and Natasha Fiona (b. 1986). Owing to her father's peerage, she is entitled to use the courtesy style

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Kirstie Allsopp. The designer and businesswoman

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is her cousin. She attended ten schools as a child,Five minutes With: Kirstie Allsopp
''

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'', 22 May 2010. including St Clotilde's in

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, and

Bedales Bedales School is a coeducational boarding and day public school, in the village of Steep, near the market town of Petersfield in Hampshire, England. It was founded in 1893 by Amy Garrett Badley and John Haden Badley in reaction to the li ...

near

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. After spending time in India teaching English, Allsopp returned to the UK and began a series of positions, working for ''

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'' and ''Food & Home'' magazines and at Hindlip & Prentice Interiors, and she studied Art History at

. Allsopp set up her own home search company, Kirmir, in 1996, focusing on top end purchases in Central and West London. In August 2014, Allsopp was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to ''

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'' opposing

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in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue.

Personal life

Her husband is property developer Ben Andersen, and they have two sons, Bay (b. 2006) and Oscar (b. 2008). The couple married, at

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, in January 2025, after 21 years together. Allsopp is also stepmother to Andersen's two sons from a previous relationship. They live in London. In 2009 Allsopp and her family bought and restored a house called Meadowgate, in rural

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. It had been empty for 39 years. The restoration and interior decorating were the subject of the TV series ''Kirstie's Homemade Home''. It was again the setting for her ''Kirstie's Homemade Christmas'' programme, showing people how to have an individual Christmas using secondhand and homemade products such as wreaths from material found from nearby woods. Allsopp was criticised in 2022 for comments she made about people not being able to purchase housing, arguing many people are not willing to make enough sacrifices like cutting out coffee, Netflix, and going to the gym. Allsopp, who received financial support from her family to purchase her first home, claimed "...there are loads of people who can ake sacrificesand don’t." Following criticism Allsopp posted several responses on Twitter before quitting the platform.

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