Amanda Lamb made a huge name for herself when she appeard on TV as the presenter of the phenomenally successful A Place in the Sun for Channel 4.

More recently she presents Channel 4's, Selling House with Amanda Lamb

Born in Portsmouth in a spot that is now the M27, Amanda was an estate agent for four years and then a model for six years. Amanda has appeared in commercials for companies as diverse as Gossard, Oil of Olay and Remington.

Formerly an estate agent, her favourite story is when she arrived at a house to show a prospective buyer around it - it was very untidy - with take-away cartons and dirty dishes everywhere - and so she tidied before showing it to her client. When she returned to the office she discovered that a different agent had sold the property two weeks previously.

Amanda was also the presenter of Housetrapped in the Sun for Channel 4, one of the presenters of TV Mail for the BBC and other work includes Ideal Home for Channel 4 and Surprise Wedding for LWT. She writes a regular column for A Place in the Sun Magazine.

Did you know that Amanda was the face in the highly distinctive Scottish Widows TV campaign which started in 1994? The commercials were originally directed by David Bailey and Amanda performed in the role for a number of years.