Fame and Fortune: Kirstie Allsopp - Times Online(Cash Before Payday)
Kirstie Allsopp has presented several TV property shows, most notably Location, Location, Location, which returned to Channel 4 last month. Alongside Phil Spencer she presents the spin-offs Relocation, Relocation and Kirstie and Phil’s Property Guide, and also runs a property search company. Daughter of Charles Henry Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip, a former chairman of Christie’s, and the interior designer Fiona McGowan, she worked for Country Living magazine and her mother’s business, Hindlip & Prentice Interiors, before studying history of art at Christie’s. The first two years of Location, Location, Location were filmed at the weekends so that I could continue working because television is an unknown quantity for long-term work. I am never going to be a person who is going to make risky investments because — I don’t know if there is such a thing as a feminine or masculine attitude to risk taking but — in my experience there was such a thing as men coming home and giving their pay packet to the wife because they knew that that was a safe place to keep it. I bought a pair of boots called the CNN boots and they came from Christian Louboutin and they were beautiful and I loved them but they were incredibly expensive — £500, although I didn’t pay as much as that as they were in the sales. Learn more
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