Tamara Beckwith
Tamara Beckwith | |
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.jpg) Beckwith at Ham Polo Club in 2003 | |
| Born | 17 April 1970 Hammersmith, London, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation(s) | Socialite, television personality |
| Children | 3 |
Tamara Camilla Jane Beckwith (born 17 April 1970) is an English socialite and television personality. In the 1990s, she was regarded as one of the "It girls" of the London social scene.[1][2]
Early life[edit]
The daughter of property developer Peter Beckwith, Beckwith grew up in Kew, southwest London, where she attended the local state primary school, Queens School, before moving to Wimbledon, London in the early 1980s. She attended Cheltenham Ladies' College, before leaving to attend the sixth form college, MPW in London, although she left in order to have her first daughter, Anouska Poppy Pearl (born 1987, Westminster, London), fathered by William Gerhauser, son of Bill Gerhauser, Finance Director of the Playboy global empire. Anouska is a photographer based in Paris.[2]
Career[edit]
Beckwith has appeared on many television programmes such as Shooting Stars, Brass Eye, Loose Women, Celebrities Under Pressure, The Big Breakfast, Trigger Happy TV, I'm Famous and Frightened!, So You Want To Be A Teacher and Dancing on Ice. She has been a presenter for MTV, VH1 and regularly appeared as a reporter for television shows including This Morning and Watchdog.
In 2007, she appeared on the BBC's reality TV programme Celebrity Scissorhands where Lee Stafford trained celebrities to cut hair, raising money as part of the BBC charity Children in Need.[3] Beckwith has also appeared in The Vagina Monologues.[4]
On 10 April 2008, Beckwith participated in a celebrity edition of the Channel 4 show Come Dine with Me with MC Harvey, Jonathan Ansell and Lynsey de Paul. Beckwith finished in third place.[citation needed]. She appeared a further time on Come Dine with Me in 2011.
Beckwith was one of the dealers on the Channel 4 show Four Rooms, in the third series which aired daily from April 2013.
Beckwith designs a range of Diamonique jewellery for QVC UK. She became a contributing editor for Gift-Library.com, an online gift website, run and founded by her friend Caroline Stanbury. She is a contributing Editor for Hello writing and styling features with others including John and Gela Taylor, Eden Sassoon and Stephen Webster.
She opened The Little Black Gallery, a photography gallery in Chelsea, London, in November 2008.[5]
She was a contestant on Series 3 of The Jump in 2016.[6]
Personal life[edit]
Beckwith was engaged to Sharon Stone's brother, Michael, before marrying Italian construction heir Giorgio Veroni in Venice on 27 August 2007.[7]
On 2 September 2008, while appearing on ITV2's CelebAir, it was revealed that Beckwith was pregnant with her second child, a daughter, Violet, born in 2009.[8]
On 26 October 2014 they had a son, named Vero after his father.[9]
Sir John Beckwith is her uncle.[10]
References[edit]
- ^ Jackson, Marie; Harris, Dominic (9 February 2017). "Tara Palmer-Tomkinson and co: Whatever happened to the 'It girl'?". BBC News. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ a b Keogh, Kat (26 June 2011). "Kat Keogh: Tamara Beckwith – now an over-the-ill IT girl". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ Lee Stafford, Celebrity Scissorhands, accessed 1 November 2007
- ^ Tamara Beckwith, presenter and actor, accessed 1 November 2007
- ^ "Inside Tamara Beckwith's Chelsea home: 'My husband thinks I've got the most dreadful taste in the world'". The Daily Telegraph.
- ^ Hegarty, Tasha (6 March 2016). "The Jump: Tamara Beckwith becomes the first celebrity eliminated in the final". Digital Spy. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
- ^ "SOCIALITE TAMARA WEDS HER ITALIAN LOVE GIORGIO IN ROMANTIC VENICE". Hello!. 28 August 2007. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
- ^ "Baby girl for Tamara Beckwith". Metro. 2 February 2009. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
- ^ Shakhnazarova, Nika (29 January 2020). "Tamara Beckwith's scowl as husband Giorgi Veroni lifts their son, 5, by the neck". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
- ^ Louise Armitstead, "Sir John Beckwith: profile", The Telegraph, 13 January 2011. Retrieved 13 April 2022.