Tamara Beckwith Bio - Biography

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Tamara Beckwith (born 17 April 1970) is an English socialite, noted for her coverage in glossy celebrity magazines such as OK!. She is a presenter for MTV One, VH1 and regularly appears as a reporter for television shows including This Morning and Watchdog. Beckwith has also appeared in The Vagina Monologues.[1] She also designs a range of diamonique jewellery for QVC UK.

She is the daughter of property business tycoon Peter Beckwith and grew up in Kew, South West London, where she attended the local state primary school Queens School, before moving to Wimbledon, London in the early 1980s. Both she and her sister Clare attended Cheltenham Ladies' College whilst her brother Miles works in the family property business. Beckwith dropped out in order to have her daughter, Anouska Poppy Pearl (born 1987, Westminster, London) - her father William Gerhauser, Son of Bill Gerhauser of the Playboy empire. At the time both he and Tamara were at school. Gerhauser's father sent William off to the army when he heard about the pregnancy. Anouska is now studying acting in Los Angeles.[citation needed]

After coming to notoriety as an It-girl with friend and fellow socialite Tara Palmer Tomkinson, Beckwith developed a minor reality television career as a guest on many television programmes such as Shooting Stars, Brass Eye, Loose Women, Celebrities Under Pressure, The Big Breakfast, Trigger Happy TV, I'm Famous and Frightened! and Dancing on Ice.

Beckwith has dated Sylvester Stallone, Charlie Sheen and was engaged to Sharon Stone's brother, Michael, before marrying construction heir Giorgio Veroni in Venice on 27 August 2007.[2]

Tamara has helped support Sense-National Deafblind and Rubella Association. In 2006 she participated in the Sense City Ice Skate event. She also attended the Sense charity screening of Atonement.

In 2007, she appeared on the BBC's reality TV programme Celebrity Scissorhands where Lee Stafford trained celebrities to cut hair, raising money as part of the BBC charity Children in Need.[3]

On 10 April 2008, Beckwith participated in a celebrity edition of Channel 4 show Come Dine With Me with MC Harvey, Jonathan Ansell and Lynsey de Paul. Beckwith finished in third place.[citation needed]

On 2 September 2008, while appearing on ITV2's CelebAir, it was revealed that Beckwith was pregnant with her second child. She later gave birth to Violet Angiolina Rose on 28 January 2009.[4]

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