Lisa-Marie Long is a British television presenter and actress best known for hosting poker formats for Sky Poker and

Matchroom Sport Matchroom Sport is a UK-based sporting event promotions company founded by Barry Hearn and run by him and his son Eddie Hearn. It first came to attention in the sports of snooker and boxing and is also involved in pool (cue sports), pool, bowl ...

for

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, Channel 5 and

Sky Sports Sky Sports is a group of British broadcasting of sports events, subscription sports channels operated by the satellite television, satellite pay television company Sky Group (a division of Comcast), and is the dominant subscription television ...

. She is also a regular poker player and played in the celebrity heat of the Partypoker.net women's world series. As an actress Lisa-Marie has appeared in numerous commercials and television shows and more recently as 'Ellie' in new British feature film ''The Hike''.

Biography

Career

Her television career started at

Bid TV Shop at Bid was a British television shopping channel that ran daily auctions and later fixed price demonstrations. It was the world's first channel of its kind. It launched as ''Bid-Up.tv''. The channel was owned by Bid Shopping. History Bi ...

where her witty comebacks and bubbly personality caught the eye of bosses at

Overseas Property TV Overseas Property TV (OPTV or O'seasproperty, as it appeared on the EPG) was a television channel broadcast in the United Kingdom and Ireland, on the Sky Digital and Freesat platforms. The channel offered a schedule of original programming fro ...

where she was soon co-anchoring a weekly show when the channel took the air on 1 September. Lisa-Marie hosted showbiz news for industry endorsed channel Eat Cinema and fronted game shows

The Great Big British Quiz The Great Big British Quiz (TGBBQ) was an interactive quiz based channel on which viewers where invited to phone in to solve puzzles in return for cash and prizes. It broadcast from studios in Battersea, London, England, and it was usually seen ...

and The Big Deal as well as

Sky Vegas Bonne Terre Limited (trading as Sky Betting & Gaming) is a United Kingdom, British-based gambling company, owned by Flutter Entertainment, with headquarters in Leeds, West Yorkshire and offices in Sheffield & Solihull. Sky Betting & Gaming cons ...

. Over the last five years she has hosted golf and poker programmes for

including the Mackenzie Sir Bobby Robson celebrity golf classic in July 2008, the

PGA Tour The PGA Tour (stylized as PGA TOUR by its officials) is the organizer of professional golf tours in North America. It organizes most of the events on the flagship annual series of tournaments also known as the PGA Tour, the PGA Tour Champion ...

and the Partypoker.net

World Series of Poker The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is a series of poker tournaments held annually in Paradise, Nevada, and since 2004, sponsored by Eldorado Resorts, Caesars Entertainment. It dates its origins to 1970, when Benny Binion invited seven of the best ...

with commentator

Jesse May Jesse May (born 1971) is an American poker Sportscaster, commentator and player. Jesse May was born in New York City in 1971 and raised in Madison, New Jersey, where he first became hooked on poker playing with friends. In 1988, he started atten ...

. She is now on the channel and tables of Sky Poker replacing

Kara Scott Kara Scott is a Canadian British TV personality, journalist and poker player. Born in northern Alberta, Canada, Scott moved to the United Kingdom in 1999 and worked in the UK media until 2009 when she moved to California. Having trained in Mu ...

and Michelle Orpe. As the voice of Sky Showbiz News online in 2009 she narrated a Perez Hilton style audio blog and is also the face of

Aviva Aviva plc is a British multinational insurance company headquartered in London, England. It has about 19 million customers across its core markets of the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada. In the United Kingdom, Aviva is the largest general ...

online.

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Lisa-Marie Long
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