Siân Lloyd

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Siân Lloyd

Siân Lloyd (born July 3, 1958 in Maesteg, Bridgend, Wales) is an ITV Weather presenter.

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[edit] Biography

A daughter of a Methodist Minister/artist father and a teacher mother, Lloyd attended Ystalyfera Bilingual School and performed at the Urdd Eisteddfod. She then read celtic studies at Cardiff University, and is a fluent Welsh language speaker. Lloyd dropped out of Oxford University while studying meteorology. She has meteorology qualifications but no meteorology degree, which is why she is never interviewed about the weather when there is a weather headline.[1]

Lloyd started her media career as a researcher for BBC Wales Today nightly regional news program, having responded to an advert in the media pages of The Guardian [2] She then became an announcer for S4C. Siân is a big fan of the BBC cult television show The Avengers and whilst working as an S4C in-vision continuity announcer she would often enthusiastically introduce The Avengers on a Saturday night whilst dressed in a variety of leather outfits. During a themed premiere for the film The Avengers she dressed in a skin-tight black catsuit, for which she won the prize for best costume.[3]

Whilst working for Worldwide Television News in London, she was asked to work with the Met Office on documentaries on the weather. They asked Lloyd to do a screen test, and she became a weather presenter on S4C, before transferring to ITV Weather

She rose to further fame when she appeared in I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!, and is seen on television advertising Arthur Llewelyn-Jenkins furniture stores in Wales

Proud of being Welsh, she set up SWS (for Social, Welsh and Sexy), a Welsh networking club, in partnership with entertainer Stifyn Parri in the Groucho Club. Bryn Terfel and Siân Phillips are now patrons.[4]

[edit] Personal life

While at Cardiff University, she met Mark Cavendish, a relative of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire and now a businessman. They were together for 14 years, often visiting the family seat at Chatsworth House, while Cavendish managed her career to the point where she joined ITV Weather. Then in 1995 she had an affair with ITV Gulf War cameraman Greg Taylor, which resulted in a tabloid publicised love triangle.

Lloyd is now engaged to Lembit Öpik, the MP for Montgomeryshire. The couple live in Powys, and are due to marry in 2006. They met at a Liberal Democrats conference session where the Press meet the MPs, where they talked and she lost a ring. He found it, then lost it himself, then found it again two years later and called her - she had a spare ticket to go to the The Proms, and they started a relationship. [5] She calls him the most fascinating man I've ever met and revealed that they enjoy sharing late night baths.[6] She appeared on Celebrity Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? with Lembit on 15 April 2006, winning £64,000 for charity.

[edit] Trivia

  • Drives a British Racing green Audi TT, registration S14 NTT, laid out to spell SIAN TT

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