Annabel Giles
Annabel Giles started her working life as a secretary in advertising, but was turned into a model by make-up artist Barbara Daly. She became the only British model under contract to a major make-up house, Max Factor.
She then moved into TV and radio presenting, making her name with Sarah Greene on ‘Posh Frocks and New Trousers’. She also presented on ‘Night Network’, ‘Hit the Road’, ‘Help Squad’ and “Bob Monkhouse’s Memory Masters’, and was a regular panellist on many gameshows. She is the only celebrity ever to have guessed her Noel Edmonds ‘Gotcha!’. She also appeared in the tv drama version of Jilly Cooper’s ‘Riders’, and has starred in a couple of pantomimes too.
A regular on ‘Loose Ends’ for some years, Annabel wrote and performed a one-woman show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which also went to the Adelaide Comedy Festival.
After the birth of her son, she wrote three novels, published by Penguin, and a potential comedy drama series for television, ‘Poppy and Prue.’ She then stopped work to focus on her son’s special needs, but has recently begun compering comedy gigs, and is due to take up where she left off at the Brighton Fringe Festival 2011 [and possibly Edinburgh too], with her new show ‘Annabel Giles Talks Too Much.’
She has a grown-up daughter, Molly, and lives with in Brighton with her son Ted and a one-eyed pug called Godfrey.
Catch a clip of Annabel chatting about her new show and generally being hilarious on The Wright Stuff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iTzpt8sWKo
Watch another clip of Annabel being fabulous here; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBPT978QbG8