Kirstie Mary Allsopp, popularly known as Kirstie Allsopp is a British television presenter. Allsopp is best known for her work as co-presenter of Channel 4 property shows including Location, Location, Location, Love It or List It UK, Relocation, Relocation, and Location Revisited.
What is Kirstie Allsopp Famous For?
- Co-presenter of Channel 4 property shows including Location, Location, Location, Love It or List It UK, Relocation, Relocation, and Location Revisited.
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Where is Kirstie Allsopp From?
Kirstie Allsopp was born on 31 August 1971. Her birth name is Kirstie Mary Allsopp. Her birth place is in Hampshire in the United Kingdom. She holds British nationality. She was born to her father, Charles Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip, and her mother, Fiona Victoria Jean Atherley McGowan. She has three siblings, Henry, Sofie, and Natasha. She belongs to the white ethnicity and her religion is Christianity. Her zodiac sign is Virgo.
As a child, she attended ten schools including St Clotilde’s in Lechlade, Gloucestershire, and Bedales near Petersfield, Hampshire.
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Kirstie Allsopp Career
- Kirstie Allsopp spent some time in India teaching English.
- She later returned to the UK and started working in a series of positions, working for Country Living and Food & Homes Magazine.
- She also worked for her mother’s business, Hindlip & Prentice Interiors, and studying at Christie’s.
- In 1996, she set up her own home search company, Kirmir, focusing on top-end purchases in Central and West London.
- Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer presented the Channel 4 property programme, Location, Location, Location. The reality show follows Allsopp and Spencer as they try to find the perfect home for a different set of buyers each week.
- The first season of the show premiered in 2000. The 20th anniversary of the series called Location, Location, Location: 20 Years and Counting was aired on 27 August 2020. As of 2021, the show has completed its 36 seasons.
- Allsopp and Spencer started another Channel 4 property show, Relocation, Relocation in 2004.
- The show is based on the same format as its parent show where the couple looking to buy a house, usually outside large urban areas, and also invests in a house or shop in the city.
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- Relocation, Relocation was canceled in 2011 due to economic conditions.
- Her family bought a house, Meadowgate in rural Devon in 2009.
- The restoration and interior decoration of the house became the subject of the TV series, Kirstie’s Homemade Home.
- Her Kirstie’s Homemade Christmas program showed people how to have an individual Christmas using secondhand and homemade products such as wreaths from material found from a nearby wood.
- She also co-presented the international franchise show, Love It or List It in 2015. The show follows a format, with a current homeowning couple or family deciding between keeping their newly renovated current home or buying a new home and selling their current one.
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Who is Kirstie Allsopp Husband?
Kirstie Allsopp is a not woman. However, she is not single. She has been in a relationship with property developer, Ben Andersen for a long time. The couple has been together since the early 2000s. The couple shares two sons, Bay Atlas, and Oscar Hercules. She is also stepmother to Andersen’s two children from his previous relationship.
The family lives in London.
What is Kirstie Allsopp Height?
Kirstie Allsopp stands around the height of around 1.7 m i.e. 5 feet and 7 inches tall. She has an average body build. By 2017, she went on an impressive weight loss, dropping from a size 16 to a size 12. Her eye color is brown and her hair color is dark brown.
Her sexual orientation is straight.
What is Kirstie Allsopp Net Worth?
Kirstie Allsopp is one of the most popular television personalities in the UK. She is known for presenting Location, Location, Location, and other property programs. She is paid a handsome salary or commission for her job. At present, her net worth is reported at around £16million.
Did You Know?
- Her father is a former chairman of Christie’s.
- Her father died of breast cancer.
- She is entitled to use the courtesy style The Honorable Kirstie Allsopp.
- The designer and businesswoman Cath Kidston is her cousin.
- She denied that she was an advisor to the Conservative Party on housing matters in 2008 and 2009.
- She was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September’s referendum on that issue.
- She claimed in February 2022 that young people could afford a first home by forgoing Netflix and gym memberships.
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