Kirstie Mary Allsopp (born 31 August 1971) is a British television presenter, best known as co-presenter of

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property shows including ''

Location, Location, Location ''Location, Location, Location'' is a British reality property programme that has aired on Channel 4 since 17 May 2000 and is presented by Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer. The show follows Allsopp and Spencer as they try to find the perfect ...

'', '' Love It or List It UK'', ''

Relocation, Relocation ''Location, Location, Location'' is a British reality property programme that has aired on Channel 4 since 17 May 2000 and is presented by Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer. The show follows Allsopp and Spencer as they try to find the perfect ...

'' and ''Location Revisited''.

Background

Allsopp is the daughter of Charles Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip, a former chairman of

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, by his marriage to Fiona Victoria Jean Atherley McGowan (1947–2014). She has a younger brother, Henry, and two younger sisters, Sofie and Natasha. Owing to her father's peerage, she is entitled to use the courtesy style

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Kirstie Allsopp. The designer and businesswoman

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is her cousin. She attended ten schools as a child,Five minutes With: Kirstie Allsopp
''

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'', 22 May 2010. including St Clotilde's in

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, and

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near

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. After spending time in India teaching English, Allsopp returned to the UK and began a series of positions, working for ''Country Living'' and ''Food & Homes Magazine'' and her mother's business, Hindlip & Prentice Interiors, and studying at Christie's. Allsopp set up her own home search company, Kirmir, in 1996, focusing on top end purchases in Central and West London. In August 2014, Allsopp was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to ''

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'' opposing

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in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue.

Personal life

Her partner is property developer Ben Andersen, and they have two sons, born in 2006 and 2008. She is also stepmother to her partner's two children from a previous relationship. They live in London. In 2009 they and family bought and restored a house called Meadowgate, in rural

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. It had been empty for 39 years. The restoration and interior decorating were the subject of the TV series ''Kirstie's Homemade Home''. It was again the setting for her ''Kirstie's Homemade Christmas'' programme, showing people how to have an individual Christmas using secondhand and homemade products such as wreaths from material found from nearby wood. In 2014, Allsopp revealed to ''

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'' that her mother, who died on 6 January aged 66 from

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, had been buried, at her own request, in a wicker coffin, in the garden of her Dorset home. In June 2022 Allsopp claimed to have accidentally swallowed an Apple AirPod while taking vitamins, she was able to regurgitate the AirPod without medical assistance.

References

External links

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Kirstie Allsopp's biography at Channel4.com
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