Amanda Lamb Biography

Amanda Lamb (born 1972 in Portsmouth, Hampshire), is an English television presenter and former model.

Biography

Amanda Lamb was born in Portsmouth. Lamb worked as an estate agent for five years and then became a model.

 Modelling

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.

 Television career

In 2001, Lamb became the main presenter of the Channel 4 programme "A Place in the Sun." Lamb 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. Lamb then returned to filming "A Place in the Sun," in which she still appears.

 Personal life

Lamb was married to travel journalist Mike Carter for five years, but they divorced in 2003. She later traded in her engagement ring for an art deco diamond ring. She then lived with "A Place in the Sun" soundman Lawrence Sayer, but they split.. Lamb has since dated ex-footballer Lee Sharpe and Northampton Saints flanker Ben Lewitt

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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