Amanda Lamb Bio - Biography

Name Amanda Lamb
Height 6'0
Naionality American
Date of Birth 19-July-1972
Place of Birth America
Famous for
Amanda Lamb (born 1972 in Portsmouth, Hampshire) is an English television presenter and former model.


Lamb worked as an estate agent and part time as a barmaid for five years and then became a model. Lamb is of English ancestry.


In 1994 she took over the role of the "Scottish Widow" from Deborah Moore (daughter of James Bond actor Roger Moore) who launched the first ever Scottish Widows advertising campaign in 1986. Lamb was once asked by David Bailey to glide across the screen wearing roller skates in a scene which never made it to the final cut. Lamb's final advert and her favourite was called "The Lighthouse", when after ten years she was replaced in 2005 by Hayley Hunt, a 22-year-old model from Surrey. In 2008 Amanda was picked by Ortak to model their Autumn jewellery collection.


In 2001, Amanda became the main presenter of the Channel 4 programme "A Place in the Sun." she also presented "Hot Shots", an Epson funded programme shown on Discovery Real Time on digital photography which was produced by Twofour. Each programme in the series featured a different photographer teaching a group of amateurs tricks of the trade, and is notable as being the last television appearance of Patrick Lichfield.


She competed in the reality television show "The Games" in March 2006. Amanda then returned to filming "A Place in the Sun," in which she still appears. She currently co-hosts the cookery programme "Market Kitchen" (UKTV Food)


Amanda was married but divorced in 2003. She later traded in her engagement ring for an art deco diamond ring designed by famous art deco jeweller to the Queen, Harry Collins.

Amanda is dating cameraman Sean McGuinness. In September 2008 she announced that they are expecting their first child which is due Valentines Day 2009. In 2007, Lamb bought herself an apartment in the medieval town of Nardò in Apulia province, southern Italy; about 5 minutes drive away from two of her Channel 4 clients who bought in near-by Galatina.

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