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Amanda Lamb
Amanda Lamb
	Lamb at the Pan premiere in 2015
Born	19 July 1972 (age 52); Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
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)
Children	2
	Modelling information
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Hair colour	Brown
Eye colour	Green

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.

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)	Programme	Role	Notes
2001–2009	A Place in the Sun	Herself	Presenter
2002	TV Mail		Presenter
2003	RI:SE		Guest
2004–2006	Richard & Judy		Guest, 4 episodes
2005	The Weakest Link		Contestant
2005	Hot Shots		Presenter, 9 episodes
2006	The Games		Panellist, 8 episodes
2006–2013	Loose Women		Guest panelist, 4 episodes
2006–2018	The Wright Stuff		Guest 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
2008	An Audience with Neil Diamond		Audience member
2008	How TV Changed Britain
2009–2010	Angela and Friends		Guest presenter, 4 episodes
2009–2010	Countdown		Dictionary Corner
2009	Pride of Britain Awards
2010	Street Market Chefs		Presenter, 3 episodes
	GMTV
	Greatest Christmas TV Ads		Presenter
2010–2011	Daybreak		Competition presenter, 11 episodes
2011	My Flat Pack Home		Presenter
2011	Al Murray's Compete for the Meat		Contestant
2012	Harry Hill's TV Burp		Guest role in final episode
2012	You Deserve This House		Presenter
2012–2013	Sunday Brunch		Guest, 2 episodes
2013	What's Cooking? From the Sainsbury's Kitchen		Guest
2014	Weekend Kitchen with Waitrose		Guest
2014–2017	Weekend		Guest, 2 episodes
2014–2018	Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb		Presenter
2015	Lorraine		Guest, 1 episode
	Flockstars		Contestant
	Celebrity Fifteen to One		Contestant
2016	The Saturday Show		Presenter, 2 episodes
2017	Pointless Celebrities		Panellist
2018	When Award Shows Go Horribly Wrong		Runner-up: Miss Leigh Park 1986
2018	Saturday Morning with James Martin		Guest, 2 episode
2019	Kirstie's Celebrity Craft Masters		Guest, 1 episode
2019	Celebrity Chase		Contestant
2020	Jeremy Vine
2020	This Morning
2020–2021	My Mortgage Free Home		Presenter, 11 episodes
2021	Moment of Truth
2022, 2024	Richard Osman's House of Games
2022	Holiday Homes in the Sun	Co-presenter	with JB Gill & Sam Pinkham^[11]
2024	Sunshine Getaways with Amanda Lamb	Co-presenter	with JB Gill & Sam Pinkham^[12]