Kirstie Allsopp

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Kirstie Mary Allsopp (31 August 1971) is a British TV presenter best known for the Channel 4 property programmes Location, Location, Location, Relocation, Relocation, Location Revisited and The Property Chain. All but the last were co-presented with Phil Spencer.

She is the daughter of Charles Henry Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip and former chairman of Christie's. She has a brother Henry, and two sisters, Sofie and Natasha.

She was educated at St Clotilde's School, Lechlade in Gloucestershire[1] and then Bedales School, near Petersfield, Hampshire. After spending time in India teaching English, Allsopp returned to the UK and began a series of positions, working for Country Living and Food & Homes Magazine and her mother's business, Hindlip & Prentice Interiors, and studying at Christie's. Allsopp founded Kirmir Property Search, and in 1996 founded (and joined) Garrington Homefinders.

Allsopp has a son by her partner, property salesman Ben Andersen. The child, born July 2006 at the St John & Elizabeth Hospital in north London was, at 11lb 11oz, the heaviest baby born there to date.[2] She was named 91st sexiest woman by FHM Magazine in 2008.[3]

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[edit] Criticism

Location, Location, Location has been criticised for inappropriately promoting residential property, most recently by BBC Panorama (June 2nd 2008) which identified it as one of the property programmes which has contributed to the current property bubble.[4] The New Statesman has referred to her as a "property porn queen".[5] Kirstie promised to 'eat her hat' if property prices did not rise by mid September 2005 in a BBC Radio 5 interview.[6]

[edit] Charitable activity

Allsopp participated in a celebrity edition of The Apprentice in order to raise money for charity.[7] Sport Relief Does The Apprentice was part of the BBC's Sport Relief charity initiative and aired in March 2008. The other participants on "The Girls" team were Clare Balding, Jacqueline Gold, Louise Redknapp and Lisa Snowdon.

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ Class act - Telegraph
  2. ^ Groskp, Viv (2008-06-09). Rise of the sumo baby. Retrieved on 2008-06-09.
  3. ^ Hot property: Kirstie Allsopp joins FHM 'Sexiest Women' list. This is London Magazine (2008-04-28). Retrieved on 2008-06-06.
  4. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_7430000/newsid_7436300?redirect=7436364.stm&news=1&nbwm=1&bbram=1&bbwm=1&nbram=1
  5. ^ http://www.newstatesman.com/economy/2008/06/house-prices-housing-british
  6. ^ http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/media/media-radio5-mayo.wma
  7. ^ "Kirstie Allsopp to appear in Sport Relief Does The Apprentice for charity", Charities Aid Foundation, 2008-02-28. Retrieved on 2008-02-29.

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