Gail Porter
Gail Porter was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom on March 23rd, 1971 and is the TV Show Host. At the age of 53, Gail Porter biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Gail Porter (born 23 March 1971) is a Scottish television presenter, television personality, former model and actress.
She started her television career in children's TV, before branching out into modelling and presenting mainstream TV.
In the 1990s she posed for a photo for FHM, which was projected on to the Houses of Parliament.Later in her career, Porter was affected by alopecia, a condition which causes hair loss.
Personal life
Porter married Toploader guitarist Dan Hipgrave in August 2001 and gave birth to their daughter Honey on 3 September 2002. She said in February 2005 that they had separated eight months earlier. Before they met, Porter was in a relationship with Keith Flint, vocalist from The Prodigy.
Porter has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and says she has insomnia.
She is a black belt in karate.
On 8 September 2011, Porter told BBC Radio 5 Live's presenter Phil Williams that she had been detained under the Mental Health Act of 2007 for 17 days of treatment against her will. She stated the signature on the documents to have her involuntarily committed to psychiatric treatment was that of her boyfriend, after texting him to say she felt suicidal. She said she had been "very frail, so who knows". She said she felt no benefit from the stay. She praised the staff but said the resources and facilities were under-funded.
Life and career
Porter attended Portobello High School in Edinburgh. She received a BTEC HND in media production at West Herts College. She presented family-friendly television shows or ones targeted at kids after making an unsuccessful attempt to join the BBC children's show Blue Peter's presentation team. They include Children's BBC Scotland, T.I.G.S, MegaMag, Up For It!, Children in Need, 100% Booked, Top of the Pops, and Live & Kicking, CITV's flagship program, and VH1's Big 90s.
In the late 1990s, she began to appear in publications such as FHM. Porter's nude photograph was released on the House of Commons in 1999 as part of a guerrilla marketing campaign, and it was followed by a call to vote for her in the FHM Sexiest Women Poll. Porter claims she was unaware of the incident until it was announced the next day. In an interview with the BBC in 2020, she said that the incident made her so sad that she was unable to get out of bed for a long time.
Porter appeared on Celebrity Blind Man's Bluff in 2001 and on Lily Savage's Blankety Blank. She appeared on Channel 4's The Games in 2003, but an injury interrupted her participation.
She appeared on three series of Dead Famous between 2004 and 2006, as well as in 2009, she appeared on The Gadget Show for the first time, briefly replacing Suzi Perry. Porter appeared on Channel 5's The Wright Stuff from 2008 to 2011.
She was a guest team captain on What Does Kids Know in 2010. On Watch with Rufus Hound, Joe Swash, and Sara Cox. Russell Jones & Walker's campaign started in August 2010 in an attempt to improve the relationship between big trucks and cyclists, ensuring they're safer. Porter hosted a documentary on Current TV, Gail Porter on Prostitution, which looked at prostitution laws in October 2010.
Porter predicted she would be guest editor of Fashion Plus magazine in 2014.
She appeared at London Fashion Week in September 2014 and wrote about her time with the magazine.
On August 27, 2015, she entered the Celebrity Big Brother house as the UK's representative. After spending 20 days in the house, she became the fourth housemate to be evicted on September 15th.
In 2017, she became the brand ambassador for insolvency specialist Creditfix, speaking out about her debt problems in several company videos and meeting with the public and speaking out about her struggle with debt.
Rock With Rudolph, a song written and produced by Grahame and Jack Corbyn, appeared in concert by Elizabeth May and her 26 other celebrities at Metropolis Studios in 2018. The album was released digitally by independent record label Saga Entertainment on October 30, 2018 under the artist name The Celebs, and was recorded in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital. The music video premiered exclusively with The Sun on November 29, 2018 and its first television appearance on Good Morning Britain on November 30, 2018. On the iTunes pop charts, the album debuted at number two.
Porter narrated the BBC Scotland series Inside The Zoo in 2020.
Porter, alongside Chris Fleming, was a host of Spooked Scotland at the start of 2022.