Residence Brighton, England Website Official website | Name Annabel Giles Movies Firelight Role Television presenter | |
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Books Birthday Girls, The Defrosting of Charlotte Small, Crossing the Paradise Line, Birthday Girls Mobile Competitors Amy Willerton, Lucy Pargeter, Alfonso Ribeiro, Joey Essex, Kian Egan Similar People Midge Ure, Molly McQueen, Amy Willerton, Lucy Pargeter, Sheridan Forbes Profiles | ||
Children Molly McQueen, Ted Giles | ||
TV Presenter Annabel Giles gives a fantastic Review of Eye Clinic London!
Annabel Claire Giles (born 20 May 1959) is a former television and radio presenter, actress, panelist, novelist and model; she is now a fully qualified counsellor/psychotherapist.
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- TV Presenter Annabel Giles gives a fantastic Review of Eye Clinic London
- Annabel giles can i come with you showreel
- Early life and career
- Personal life
- References
Annabel giles can i come with you showreel
Early life and career
Giles was born in Griffithstown, near Pontypool, Torfaen, the eldest of three sisters. She was expelled from boarding school aged 16 for going to see Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel play in Bristol and being seen smoking in the street. Between 1977 and 1982, she trained and worked as a secretary, mostly for advertising agencies. During one shoot for Boots No. 7 cosmetics, royal make-up artist Barbara Daly suggested taking a shot of her, to which she agreed. The ad agency used the shot for their campaign. Giles was then signed up by top agency Models 1 and became the official model for Max Factor.
Giles has had a varied career in television and radio. Having started her career in the 1990s on Razzmatazz and Night Network, she is best known as co-presenter of ITV's Posh Frocks and New Trousers with Sarah Greene. She was in numerous entertainment shows, and a panelist on game shows ranging from Have I Got News for You to Shooting Stars; she was a regular panelist on Through the Keyhole and BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends and has also appeared on BBC Radio 4's Just a Minute. On Noel Edmonds' House Party she guessed a Gotcha! before it had even started.
In 1995, Giles wrote and performed a one-woman show at the Edinburgh Festival, called Looking for Mr.Giles, and a second show the following year, 'Anyone Can be A TV Presenter'.
Giles is also a Penguin author; her first novel, Birthday Girls, reached number 6 in the top 10 in the best-seller lists in 2001. She published Crossing the Paradise Line in 2003 and The Defrosting of Charlotte Small in 2006.
In November 2013, Giles and Vincent Simone entered the Australian jungle as late arrivals in the 13th season of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. Giles was the first celebrity to leave the jungle, on 1 December.
Since early 2014, Giles has regularly guested on the Channel 5 chat show The Wright Stuff hosted by Matthew Wright.
Giles is a patron of the charity Amaze Brighton and The Sussex Beacon.
Having trained for four years, she now works as a Counsellor/Psychotherapist in Brighton and London. Please see the Counselling Directory for further details: http://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/counsellors/annabel-giles
Personal life
Giles married the lead singer of Ultravox, Midge Ure, a founder of Band Aid and Live Aid. Their daughter, Molly McQueen, was born in March 1987. Molly became the lead singer of pop punk group The Faders. Giles and Ure split up in 1989 but remain good friends. Giles has a second child, a son named Ted Giles, who was born with XYY syndrome and Aspergers Syndrome; in 2011, having written a blog outlining the difficulties in educating a child with these issues, she received help from an anonymous benefactor towards his education.