Katie Boyle
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Catherine "Katie" Boyle (born Caterina Irene Elena Maria Imperiali Di Francavilla on 29 May 1926 in Italy) is a television presenter, well known for presenting What's My Line?
She came to England in 1946 and started her modelling career which included such publications as Vogue.
Her other work has included theatre, films (Intent to Kill with Richard Todd), television (What's Up Dog?) and radio (Katie and Friends).
In 1947 she married Viscount Boyle (now Earl of Shannon); the marriage was dissolved in 1955. The same year she married Greville Baylis, a racehorse owner who died in 1976. In 1979 she married for the 3rd time to Sir Peter Saunders, the theatre impresario who died in 2002.
Katie was the presenter for the 1960, 1963, 1968 and 1974 Eurovision Song Contests, all hosted in England. She also hosted the UK qualfying heat, A Song for Europe, in 1961.
She is also an avid lover of animals, dogs being special to her. She sits on the board of Battersea Dogs Home and is Patron of the Italian Greyhound Rescue Charity. At home she has two dogs: Cassie (a Collie cross) and Totty (an Italian Greyhound), both of which came from Battersea.
In 1989 she recorded an audio cassette with the dog trainer John Fisher entitled Think Dog!
She has also written three books:
- Dear Katie Tips from her days as agony aunt for TV Times, 1975
- What This Katie Did, autobiography 1980
- Battersea Tales Stories of rescues from the Home, 1997
She is still agony aunt for the monthly magazine Dogs Today.
