Kirstie Allsopp

Template:Short description Template:Pp-pc Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person Kirstie Mary Allsopp<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> (born 31 August 1971)<ref>"Pass notes No 2,666: Kirstie Allsopp" The Guardian (19 October 2009). Retrieved 6 January 2010.</ref> is a British television presenter, best known as co-presenter of Channel 4 property shows including Location, Location, Location, Love It or List It UK, Relocation, Relocation and Location Revisited.

Background

Allsopp is the eldest child and daughter of Charles Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip, a former chairman of Christie's, by his marriage to Fiona Victoria Jean Atherley McGowan (1947–2014).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She has a younger brother, Henry William (b. 1973), and two younger sisters, Sofie (b. 1980) and Natasha Fiona (b. 1986).<ref name="auto">Template:Cite news</ref> Owing to her father's peerage, she is entitled to use the courtesy style The Honourable Kirstie Allsopp.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The designer and businesswoman Cath Kidston is her cousin.<ref name="Wood">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

She attended ten schools as a child,<ref name=":0">Five minutes With: Kirstie Allsopp, BBC News Online, 22 May 2010.</ref><ref name="auto"/> including St Clotilde's in Lechlade, Gloucestershire,<ref>Kirsty Allsopp: Class act, The Daily Telegraph, 25 September 2004.</ref> and Bedales near Petersfield, Hampshire. After spending time in India teaching English, Allsopp returned to the UK and began a series of positions, working for Country Living and Food & Home magazines and at Hindlip & Prentice Interiors, and she studied Art History at Christie's.<ref name="c4bio">Template:Cite web</ref>

Allsopp set up her own home search company, Kirmir, in 1996, focusing on top end purchases in Central and West London.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In August 2014, Allsopp was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Personal life

Her husband is property developer Ben Andersen,<ref>West London pub frequented by The Clash and Blur approved to re-open, The Evening Standard, 31 August 2024.</ref> and they have two sons, Bay (b. 2006) and Oscar (b. 2008).<ref>Kirstie Allsopp: no-nonsense, enthusiastic and exactly as she comes across on TV, The Daily Telegraph, 7 April 2009.</ref> The couple married, at Grosvenor Chapel in Mayfair, in January 2025, after 21 years together.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Allsopp is also stepmother to Andersen's two sons from a previous relationship.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> They live in Notting Hill, London.<ref name="auto"/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2008 Allsopp and her family bought and restored a house called Meadowgate, in Welcombe in rural Devon.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> It had been empty for 39 years. The restoration and interior decorating were the subject of the TV series Kirstie's Homemade Home.<ref>ThisIsNorthDevon – Kirstie Allsopp's rural retreat available for rent Template:Webarchive, 24 April 2009.</ref> It was again the setting for her Kirstie's Homemade Christmas programme, showing people how to have an individual Christmas using secondhand and homemade products such as wreaths from material found from nearby woods.<ref>The Guardian – Kirstie's homemade Christmas: do not try this at home?, 9 December 2009.</ref>

Allsopp was criticised in 2022 for comments she made about people not being able to purchase housing, arguing many people are not willing to make enough sacrifices like cutting out coffee, Netflix, and going to the gym. Allsopp, who received financial support from her family to purchase her first home, claimed "...there are loads of people who can [make sacrifices] and don’t." Following criticism Allsopp posted several responses on Twitter before quitting the platform.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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