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Kirsty Jane Gallacher
(born January 20, 1976, Edinburgh) is a Scottish television presenter often
specialising in sport programmes
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Biography
The daughter of the
former Ryder Cup captain, Bernard Gallacher, she graduated from the London
College of Fashion, and began work as a production assistant before moving on to
the position of editorial assistant on Sky Sports.
She got her presenting
break on Sky Sports News, and since then has been associated with many other
sports shows such as 90 Minutes, Soccer Extra, Kirsty and Phil (on BBC Radio
Five) and Soccer AM.
Since 2000 she has
hosted the Sky One show Kirsty's Home Videos, a satellite equivalent of ITV's
You've Been Framed in which viewers send in purportedly entertaining home videos
to be screened. In 2002 she presented the morning show RI:SE, and in 2004 began
the show Simply the Best. She has made guest appearances on They Think It's All
Over and A Question of Sport, and she was a regular guest on the fifth series of
Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway.
5ft 4in tall, she was a
cover girl on the February, 2001 issue of Maxim, and was a cover girl for FHM.
She has appeared regularly in FHM's annual 'Sexiest Women' poll
Reality TV
In 2005, she won the
gold medal in the third series of the popular Channel 4 reality TV series, The
Games. 26 December 2005, she released a DVD "Body Sculpt With Kirsty Gallacher"
[1] in which she shows a variety of workouts. In 2006 she co-presented the
fourth series of The Games alongside Jamie Theakston. She also presents her own
show on BBC Radio Five Live. In July 2006, she co-presented the BBC reality TV
show Only Fools on Horses
Personal life
Gallacher is currently
delighted with her newborn son, Oscar, who she had with Paul Sampson. Her
father's close friendship with Kenny Dalglish secured her as a life long
Liverpool F.C. supporter, although she also follows Fulham F.C. [2]
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