![Gail Porter video Gail Porter talks about life and work on BBC Food. www.alopeciaworld.com clip](http://www.celebrityonlinenews.com/viewVideo.html?title=Gail Porter "People have forgotten I was blonde"&videoType=YouTube&summary=Gail Porter talks about life and work on BBC Food. www.alopeciaworld.com&link=http://www.youtube.com/v/dtWJF-ZAeOQ&fs=1&source=uds&autoplay=1&thumb=http://0.gvt0.com/vi/dtWJF-ZAeOQ/default.jpg&celebrity=Gail Porter)
![Gail Porter video Michelle Chapman & Gail Porter do breakfast TV Its a few years old but timeless ... "Gail Porter" "Michelle Chapman" ... clip](http://www.celebrityonlinenews.com/viewVideo.html?title=GMTV&videoType=YouTube&summary=Michelle Chapman & Gail Porter do breakfast TV Its a few years old but timeless ... "Gail Porter" "Michelle Chapman" ...&link=http://www.youtube.com/v/13d1HwmE-F4&fs=1&source=uds&autoplay=1&thumb=http://2.gvt0.com/vi/13d1HwmE-F4/default.jpg&celebrity=Gail Porter)
Gail Porter takes the plunge on ride
|
The Scotsman - Found 16 hours ago PRESENTER Gail Porter and her boyfriend Jonny Davies led the way as one of the UK's most terrifying rollercoaster rides opened to the public ... |
Gail Porter's 'beating alopecia'
|
Now Magazine - Found Mar. 17, 2010 Gail Porter's 'beating alopecia' We're so happy the presenter's hair's growing back We were thrilled to see Gail Porter's winning her battle against |
Gail Porter shows off her growing locks
|
Metro.co.uk - Found Mar. 15, 2010 Gail Porter, who lost her hair to alopecia in 2005, shows how her locks are returning on TV show The Wright Stuff. |
Lindsay Lohan runs into ex Calum Best on the party scene in London
|
Celebrity Mound - Found Mar. 15, 2010 Gail Porter also took part in the fundraiser, which saw the twosome travel by train from Hanoi to Lao Cai, where their walk began, taking them... |
Gail Porter: My hair started growing back when I found new love
|
Daily Record - Found Mar. 18, 2010 By John Dingwall G GAIL PORTER says finding love and happiness with her rocker boyfriend Jonny Davies has helped her hair grow back - five years |
Gail Porter's hair grows back after romps with new toyboy lover
|
Metro.co.uk - Found Jan. 27, 2010 Gail Porter has revealed the secret ingredient helping her hair grow back ? a new lover 14 years younger than her. |
Alopecia sufferer Gail Porter has hair sprouting on her head again
|
Mirror.co.uk - Found Jan. 27, 2010 TV's Gail Porter has started to sprout hair on her head again- just as she is finally coming to terms with being bald. |
Gail Porter: I've found new love.. and my hair is growing back
|
Glasgow Sunday Mail - Found Jan. 27, 2010 BALD Gail Porter has revealed how her hair is growing back after she found new love. |
Gail Porter's recovery shows there is hope for sufferers of alopecia
|
Daily Record - Found Feb. 1, 2010 WHEN Gail Porter lost her hair to alopecia, she refused to hide. |
Gail Porter Interview. Part Two.
|
MaleFirst Mens Magazine - Found Dec. 16, 2009 It?s nice when people think 'right, I?m going to go ring Gail Porter and see if she can help' and I?m like ?of course I will!? and... |
Gail Porter Biography
|
Gail Porter
|
 |
This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please improve this article if you can. (March 2008) |
| Gail Porter | |
|---|---|
| Born | 23 March 1971 Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Other name(s) | Gail Hipgrave |
| Occupation | TV presenter |
Gail Porter (born 23 March 1971 in Edinburgh, Scotland), sometimes known by her married name Gail Hipgrave, is a Scottish television presenter.
Contents |
Biography
Gail studied a BTEC HND in Media Production at West Hertfordshire College 1. After making an unsuccessful bid to join the presentation team of the BBC children's show Blue Peter,2 Porter has tended to present family-friendly television programmes, or ones aimed directly at children. This includes The Movie Chart Show, Top of the Pops, and Live & Kicking, work for CITV , and other programmes such as The Big Breakfast and Gail Porter's Big 90s for VH1.
In the late 1990s she began to pose for photos in men's magazines such as FHM. Probably the best-known product of her many photo-sessions is one particular still in which she is seen completely nude from behind.
The image became well known due to the events of one night in 1999, when FHM, along with guerrilla marketing company Cunning Communications, beamed an enormous projection of her onto the exterior of the Houses of Parliament, with an accompanying message urging people to vote for Gail in the FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women Poll.3. In her autobiography, Porter claims that she did not know about the stunt until it was reported in the news the following day.45
In 2001, Porter took part in the Reality TV show Celebrity Blind Man's Bluff 6 and in 2003, she was a contestant on Channel 4's The Games, although injury truncated her participation.
Recently she presented three series of Dead Famous and episodes of The Gadget Show, temporarily replacing Suzi Perry.
Since 2008, Gail has been a regular panellist on Five's The Wright Stuff.
In 2010 she was a celebrity guest team captain on What Do Kids Know? along with Rufus Hound, Joe Swash and Sara Cox on Watch (TV channel).
Personal life
Porter dated The Prodigy lead singer Keith Flint, moving in together in a house in Essex. They were known as 'Beauty and the Beast' due to Porter's innocent beauty and Flint's hair raising style. The couple split in 2000, because it was too far away for Porter to commute on a daily basis for her work in the city, and their relationship wasn't working out. Earlier in her life, Porter also shared a brief romance with the little-known DJ Diablo.
She married Toploader guitarist Dan Hipgrave in August 2001, with whom she had a daughter, Honey, in 2002. They separated in the summer of 2004, and Porter has spoken publicly about her ensuing battles with stress, drugs and post-natal depression.
In 2005 her conditions triggered alopecia areata, causing her to lose much of her hair.7 She refused to wear a hat or wig, deciding instead to maintain a public profile and raise awareness of the condition. She became Ambassador for the Little Princess Trust, a charity which provides wigs to children with hairloss.89 On an appearance on the Richard & Judy show on 15 February 2006 she showed that her hair, eyebrows and eyelashes were beginning to grow back.10 On 12 April 2006 Porter said "It is possible that I'm going to get my hair back."11
Porter's experience with alopecia areata was the subject of the BBC ONE Life series documentary Gail Porter Laid Bare on 31 May 2006 12.
Her autobiography, Laid Bare: My Story Of Love, Fame And Survival, was published in September 2007.
Comedy
Porter is now trying her hand at Stand up Comedy and appeared at the Comedy Store on Monday 23 November 2009, as part of the Laughing Point event in aid of the youth homelessness charity Centrepoint.
Footnotes
- ^ Gail Porter interview on apprenticeships website notgoingtouni.co.uk
- ^ Fifty facts about Blue Peter at 50
- ^ Guerrilla Marketing: Pushing the Limits | BusinessWeek
- ^ Porter, Gail (2008) [2007]. "9. Exposure!". Laid Bare - My story of love, fame and survival. Ebury Press. pp. 141–142. ISBN 978-0-09-192041-8. "The first I knew was when it was on the TV news"
- ^ Porter, Gail. Laid Bare. photo caption between pp.136/7. "The first I learned of this was when it was the morning after, on the news"
- ^ Celebrity Blind Man's Buff - Mail Online
- ^ Gail Porter speaks to Emma Brockes | Media | The Guardian
- ^ [1]Little Princess Trust web site.
- ^ [2]BBC News article about girl receiving wig.
- ^ Sky Showbiz - Gail's Fab Hair News
- ^ ITV Newsdead link
- ^ ONE Lifedead link
![Gail Porter Image Gail Porter Photos, Wallpapers, Galleries: Gail Porter at " Picture 0](javascript:popUp('http://www.celebrityonlinenews.com/viewImage.html?title=Gail Porter Photos, Wallpapers, Galleries: Gail Porter at "&summary=Gail Porter at&link=http://www.topnews.in/files/images/Gail-Porter2.jpg&thumb=http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:AW1KewGRzG2H6M:www.topnews.in/files/images/Gail-Porter2.jpg&celebrity=Gail Porter'))
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
