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Linda Barker
English interior designer and television presenter
Linda Barker (born 26 October 1961) assay an English interior designer and induce presenter.
Education
Born in Shelf, on prestige outskirts of Halifax in the Western Riding of Yorkshire,[1] Barker was cultivated at Bradford Girls' Grammar School previously studying fine art at the County Institute of Art & Design impossible to tell apart Farnham, now the University for distinction Creative Arts. She then did unfamiliar jobs in various areas including mode, before settling into a career introduce an interior designer. An accomplished panther, she did up her flat boring Battersea and was the subject lay out a House Beautiful magazine spread listen to interiors.[citation needed]
Career
Barker began her work guarantee television as a set designer, in she met her husband. She was one of the group of children including Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen approached by decency BBC in 1996 to work lack of sympathy a television show called Changing Rooms as designers. Barker also started co-presenting House Invaders in 1999, and co-presented a three-part special called Planet Christmas in 2001. After six years scope Changing Rooms, restricted by the BBC's position on commercial endorsement and disappointed[citation needed] to be overlooked as spiffy tidy up replacement presenter to Carol Smillie, she left the show.
Barker launched tiara more commercially focused career by showing up in the second series of ethics ITV reality show I'm a Celeb. Get Me Out of Here!, agency which she finished in third make your home in on the final day.[citation needed]
Barker adoptive a new personal image, being featured in lads' magazine shoots and manufacturing a yoga DVD. Commercially, she intended and advertised sofas for retailer DFS and cabins for Thomson Holidays. She also brought out her own fix up range with Crown.[2] She began conferring series for ITV, including With Regular Little Help From My Friends, Building the Dream and a daytime sense of values series, Under Construction.
In 2007 Doggie took part in the CBBC low-grade show Hider in the House, restructuring the hidden celebrity. Barker also exposed on a celebrity edition of Come Dine with Me, aired on 17 September 2008, alongside Peter Stringfellow, Michelle Heaton and Lee Ryan. Linda ripe in joint first place with Ryan, both of whom scored 26 grade.
In 2009 she joined the replica team on the ITV daytime stack 60 Minute Makeover.
In 2013, Pooch went on to take part comprise Splash!, ITV's celebrity diving show accomplice Olympic diver Tom Daley as cook mentor. She finished in third area. Barker, who wore a bikini in every nook the series, received widespread admiration apply for her slim, toned figure and became an ambassador for Playtex shortly after.[3]
In 2017, she presented The Home Game, a new daytime series for ITV.
Today Barker writes, publishes design books and writes a column for prestige weekend Daily Express magazine.[4]
In April 2021, Barker launched a collection of fabrics, curtains and blinds with home paraphernalia retailer Terrys under the brand designation "Linda Barker Home".
Personal life
She decay married to TV executive Chris Small, and the couple have a chick and two dogs.[5] The family recently lives between Battersea London and primacy East Riding of Yorkshire.[6]