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'''Angellica Bell''' (born 24 March 1976 in ]){{citation needed|date=January 2011}} is a ] ] and ].
'''Angellica Bell''' (born 24 March 1976) is a British ] and radio presenter, best known for her presenting on ] between 2000 and 2006. She is also known for providing occasional cover on ''The One Show'' and for co-presenting '']''. Bell won the 2017 series of '']''.


==Early life== ==Early life==
Bell is of ]n heritage. Born in 1976, Bell was raised a ] and educated in ], ] at ]. She also studied at the ], gaining a BA Honours degree in Politics in 1996.
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Born in 1976 of mixed ] and ]n heritage, Bell was educated in ], West London at ]. She later earned her ] Honours degree in ].


==Career==
==Television career==
Bell started off her career as a roving reporter on ]'s '']'' in the late 1990s.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz7RyDDjIao | title=Angellica Bell | website=] | date=20 September 2016 }}</ref> She then had a spell presenting on ]'s live afternoon programme ''The Max'', with Paul Leyshon, before joining ] in May 2000 mainly working as a presenter between shows. She became the main anchor of shows, including '']'', '']'', '']'' and '']''. She has also presented '']'' and ''Dance Xtra''.


From 2004 to 2005, she presented CBBC's '']''. On 1 December 2006, Bell announced she was leaving ].
===2000–2006===


She presented ''Holiday Hitsquad'', the ] travel programme formerly known as ''Departure Lounge''.
Bell joined ] in May 2000. She became its main anchor of shows, including '']'', '']'', '']'' and '']''. She has also presented '']'' and ''So You Think You Can Dance''.


Bell's break into adult-mainstream programming appeared on ] where she presented ''The Great British Village Show'', with ] and ], which was broadcast in the spring of 2007. In March 2007, Bell appeared on '']''.
From 2004 to 2005 she presented CBBC's '']''.


She presented ''Holiday Hitsquad'', the ] travel programme formerly known as '']''. Also in 2007, she presented ''Dance Xtra'' for ] and '']'', and was one of the reporters on ''].''


In Autumn 2008, she hosted the CBBC show ''Election,'' and the ] reality show '']''. In 2009, she appeared on '']'' with her then-fiancė ].
On 1 December 2006, Bell announced she was leaving CBBC.


In 2010, Bell presented the ] programme '']'' with ]. That same year, she also presented CBBC's ''Project Parent''.
===2007–2009===
Bell's break into adult-mainstream programming appeared on ] where she presented ''The Great British Village Show'', with ] and ], which was broadcast in the spring of 2007.


On 17 July 2011, she appeared as a contestant on '']''. Bell learnt ] but did not make it to the final. On 23 October 2011, Bell co-hosted '']'' with ] standing in for ].
Between 3 March and 16 March 2007, Bell appeared in the celebrity '']''.


On 1 November 2011, she was runner-up to ] on reality series '']''. On 21 June 2014, Bell guest-hosted an episode of ''Weekend Kitchen with Waitrose'' with ] and guest hosted on other occasions.
Also in 2007, she presented ''Dance Xtra'' for ] and ''].''


On 31 March 2014, 31 March 2015 and 23 November 2015, Bell was a guest co-presenter on '']''. She also co-presented four days of shows from 26 October 2015. She regularly is asked to stand in to host the show. On 5 January 2016, Bell appeared on ] in '']''.
She is currently one of the reporters on ''].'' In Autumn 2008 she hosted the CBBC show ''Election,'' and the ] reality show ''].''


Bell stood-in for ] on the ] show '']'' for three months. In 2016, she took part in episodes of '']'' and '']'' on ITV.
In 2009, she and her future husband Michael were contestants on '']''.


From 7–11 March 2016, Bell took part in a challenge for ], called 'Hell on High Seas', in which she, along with five other celebrities: ], ], ], ] and ] sailed 1,000 miles from ] to ]. Coverage of this challenge was shown on '']'' and a special programme aired called ''Hell on High Seas'' in March 2016.<ref>{{cite web|title=SportRelief: Hell on high seas|url=http://www.sportrelief.com/whats-going-on/hell-on-high-seas|access-date=15 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018035619/http://www.sportrelief.com/whats-going-on/hell-on-high-seas|archive-date=18 October 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=BT News|url=http://home.bt.com/news/bt-life/x-11364043857543}}</ref>
===2010===
From May 2010, Bell has presented ]'s '']'' with husband ]. Since 2010, Bell has also presented CBBC's ''Project Parent''.


In 2016, she narrated the daytime ] series ''Family Finders'' and co-presented ''Ill Gotten Gains'' alongside ].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2016/ill-gotten-gains|title=BBC - Criminals' prized possessions auctioned off for good causes on new BBC One series Ill Gotten Gains - Media Centre|website=www.BBC.co.uk|access-date=14 April 2019}}</ref> She took part in the 2016 series of ''Tour De Celeb'' on ].
===2011===
On 17 July 2011, she appeared as a contestant on '']''. Bell learnt ] but did not make it to the final.


In September 2017, Bell won the twelfth series of BBC's '']'', beating ] and ].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2017/09/22/angellica-bell-crowned-celebrity-masterchef-2017-winner/|title=Angellica Bell crowned Celebrity MasterChef 2017 winner|first=Ed|last=Power|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=22 September 2017|access-date=14 April 2019|via=www.Telegraph.co.uk}}</ref>
On 23 October 2011, Bell co-hosted '']'' with ] standing in for ].


In October 2019, Bell was a panellist on BBC celebrity quiz show '']'' Series 3, Week 2.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Iplayer|first=BBC|title=Richard Osman's House of Games on iplayer|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009dx2|access-date=2020-09-01|website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref>
On 1 November 2011, she came runner-up on ITV's '']''. ] won the series.


==Personal life== == Personal life ==
Bell married personal trainer Stuart Amory in January 2007.<ref name="DMBell">{{cite news|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2001477/Angellica-Bell-Michael-Underwood-expecting-child.html|title=TV presenter couple Angellica Bell and Michael Underwood expecting their first child|date=9 June 2011|work=]|publisher=]|accessdate=10 June 2011|location=London}}</ref> The marriage ended in July 2008.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/article1413310.ece |title=Angellica Bell dumps husband of 18 months for Michael Underwood |location=London |work=The Sun |first=Sara |last=Nathan |date=12 July 2008}}</ref> Bell began a relationship with her former BBC co-star ] and they married in New York in December 2010.<ref name="DMBell"/> The couple's first child,<ref name="DMBell"/> Elijah Joseph Underwood, was born on 26 December 2011. Angellica gave birth to a baby girl in June 2013<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/news/a357557/angellica-bell-michael-underwood-welcome-baby-boy.html |title=Angellica Bell, Michael Underwood welcome baby boy |publisher='']'' |date=28 December 2011 |accessdate=14 August 2012}}</ref>


Bell married personal trainer Stuart Amory in January 2007. The marriage ended in July 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.surreylife.co.uk/people/celebrity-interviews/could-michael-underwood-and-angellica-bell-be-tv-s-next-richard-and-judy-1-1643830|title = Could Michael Underwood and Angellica Bell be TV's next Richard and Judy?|date = 30 March 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.digitalspy.com/showbiz/a110330/angellica-bell-dates-gmtvs-underwood|title = Angellica Bell dates 'GMTV's Underwood| website=] |date = 12 July 2008}}</ref>
Bell admitted on '']'' that she is in the ].

Bell began a relationship with her former BBC co-star ] and they married in New York in December 2010.<ref>{{cite web |title=Underwood and Bell tie the knot |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12089336 |website=BBC News |access-date=7 September 2020 |date=29 December 2010}}</ref> They have two children.

In August 2014, Bell was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to '']'' opposing ] in the run-up to September's ].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/aug/07/celebrities-open-letter-scotland-independence-full-text |title=Celebrities' open letter to Scotland – full text and list of signatories &#124; Politics |publisher=theguardian.com |date=7 August 2014 |access-date=26 August 2014}}</ref>


==Filmography== ==Filmography==
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| 2000–2002 || '']'' || Main Presenter
|- |-
| 2000–2006 || '']'' || Main Presenter | 2000–2002 || '']'' || rowspan="6" | Presenter || rowspan="14" |
|- |-
| 2000–2004 || '']'' || Main Presenter | 2000–2006 || '']''
|- |-
| 2003 || '']'' || Main Presenter | 2000–2004 || '']''
|- |-
| 2003–2004 || '']'' || Main Presenter | 2003 || '']''
|- |-
| 2005 || '']'' || Main Presenter | 2003–2004 || '']''
|- |-
| rowspan=2|2005, 2014— || '']''
| 2005 || '']'' || Co-Presenter
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| ''Holiday Hitsquad'' || rowspan="2" | Co-presenter
| 2007 || ''The Great British Village Show'' || Co-Presenter
|- |-
| 2007 || '']'' || Contestant | rowspan=4|2007 || ''The Great British Village Show''
|- |-
| '']'' || Contestant
| 2007 || ''Dance Xtra'' || Main Presenter
|- |-
| ''Dance Xtra'' || Main presenter
| 2007 || '']'' || Backstage Presenter
|- |-
| 2007–present || '']'' || Reporter | '']'' || Backstage presenter
|- |-
| 2008 || '']'' || Main Presenter | 2007— || '']'' || Reporter/Guest presenter
|- |-
| 2008–2009 || '']'' || Main Presenter | 2008 || '']'' || rowspan="2" | Presenter
|- |-
| 2008–2009 || '']''
| 2009 ||'']'' || Celebrity Panel
|- |-
| 2009 ||'']'' || Contestant | 2009 ||'']'' || Contestant || With ]
|- |-
| 2010 ||'']'' || Co-Presenter | rowspan=2|2010 ||'']'' || Awards co-presenter || rowspan="6" |
|- |-
| 2010 ||'']'' || Co-Presenter | '']'' || Co-presenter
|- |-
| 2010–present ||''Project Parent'' (]) ||Presenter | 2010 ||''Project Parent'' || Presenter
|- |-
| 2011 ||'']'' || Contestant | rowspan=3|2011 ||'']'' || rowspan="2" | Contestant
|- |-
| 2011 ||'']'' ||Contestant | '']''
|-
| '']'' || rowspan="2" | Guest presenter
|-
| 2014 || ''Weekend Kitchen with Waitrose'' || 1 episode
|-
| 2014 || ''A Question of Faith'' || Presenter ||
|-
| 2015 || ''Hacker's Birthday Bash: 30 Years of Children's BBC'' || Herself || One-off special
|-
|2015
|''Police Interceptors''
|Presenter
|Series 9, Ep 11
|-
| rowspan=5|2016 || '']'' || Co-presenter || 1 episode
|-
| '']'' || Participant || One-off TV special
|-
| ''Ill Gotten Gains'' || Co-presenter || 1 series
|-
| ''Family Finders'' || Narrator || Series 2
|-
| ''Tour De Celeb'' || rowspan="2" | Participant ||
|-
| rowspan=2|2017 || '']'' || As part of ''The One Show''
|-
| '']'' || Winner || Series 12
|-
| 2017—2023 || '']'' || Co-presenter ||
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| 2019 || '']'' || Co-presenter || Series 2
|-
| 2019 || '']'' || Participant || Series 3, Week 2
|-
| 2020 || ''A Very Country Christmas'' || Co-presenter || With ]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000q6q4|title=A Very Country Christmas|website=bbc.co.uk|access-date=16 December 2021}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan=2|2023 || '']'' || Herself||Series 17. Episode 3 “Cartoons”
|-
| ''RHS Chelsea Flower Show'' || Co-presenter || Episode 10<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-yf171v/rhs-chelsea-flower-show-season-2023/?episode=b-lwsami|title=RHS Chelsea Flower Show|website=radiotimes.com|access-date=26 May 2023}}</ref>
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| 2023 || '']'' || Co-presenter || Alongside ]
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| 2023 || ''Cutting the Cost of Christmas''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-exuquu/tonight/episodes/?episode=b-goike4|title=Cutting the Cost of Christmas|website=radiotimes.com|accessdate=13 December 2023}}</ref> || Presenter || 7 December 2023 episode of '']''
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| 2011 ||'']'' || Co-Presenter
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Angellica Bell
Born (1976-03-24) 24 March 1976 (age 48)
London, England
EducationNotting Hill & Ealing High School
Alma materUniversity of the West of England
OccupationTelevision presenter
Years active2000–present
Employer(s)BBC, ITV
Spouses
Stuart Amory ​ ​(m. 2007; div. 2008)​
Michael Underwood ​(m. 2010)​
Children2
Websitewww.officialangellicabell.com

Angellica Bell (born 24 March 1976) is a British television and radio presenter, best known for her presenting on CBBC between 2000 and 2006. She is also known for providing occasional cover on The One Show and for co-presenting The Martin Lewis Money Show. Bell won the 2017 series of Celebrity MasterChef.

Early life

Bell is of St. Lucian heritage. Born in 1976, Bell was raised a Mormon and educated in Ealing, West London at Notting Hill & Ealing High School. She also studied at the University of the West of England, gaining a BA Honours degree in Politics in 1996.

Career

Bell started off her career as a roving reporter on Channel 4's The Big Breakfast in the late 1990s. She then had a spell presenting on Carlton Kids's live afternoon programme The Max, with Paul Leyshon, before joining CBBC in May 2000 mainly working as a presenter between shows. She became the main anchor of shows, including That's Genius!, Xchange, 50/50 and Short Change. She has also presented EastEnders Xtra and Dance Xtra.

From 2004 to 2005, she presented CBBC's The Saturday Show. On 1 December 2006, Bell announced she was leaving CBBC.

She presented Holiday Hitsquad, the BBC travel programme formerly known as Departure Lounge.

Bell's break into adult-mainstream programming appeared on BBC One where she presented The Great British Village Show, with Alan Titchmarsh and James Martin, which was broadcast in the spring of 2007. In March 2007, Bell appeared on Comic Relief Does Fame Academy.

Also in 2007, she presented Dance Xtra for BBC Three and Children in Need, and was one of the reporters on The One Show.

In Autumn 2008, she hosted the CBBC show Election, and the ITV2 reality show CelebAir. In 2009, she appeared on All Star Mr & Mrs with her then-fiancė Michael Underwood.

In 2010, Bell presented the ITV programme The Zone with Michael Underwood. That same year, she also presented CBBC's Project Parent.

On 17 July 2011, she appeared as a contestant on Born to Shine. Bell learnt tap dancing but did not make it to the final. On 23 October 2011, Bell co-hosted Something for the Weekend with Tim Lovejoy standing in for Louise Redknapp.

On 1 November 2011, she was runner-up to Rav Wilding on reality series 71 Degrees North. On 21 June 2014, Bell guest-hosted an episode of Weekend Kitchen with Waitrose with Steve Jones and guest hosted on other occasions.

On 31 March 2014, 31 March 2015 and 23 November 2015, Bell was a guest co-presenter on The One Show. She also co-presented four days of shows from 26 October 2015. She regularly is asked to stand in to host the show. On 5 January 2016, Bell appeared on BBC Two in Celebrity Antiques Road Trip.

Bell stood-in for Barney Harwood on the CBBC show Blue Peter for three months. In 2016, she took part in episodes of Tipping Point: Lucky Stars and The Chase: Celebrity Special on ITV.

From 7–11 March 2016, Bell took part in a challenge for Sport Relief, called 'Hell on High Seas', in which she, along with five other celebrities: Suzi Perry, Doon Mackichan, Alex Jones, Hal Cruttenden and Ore Oduba sailed 1,000 miles from Belfast to London. Coverage of this challenge was shown on The One Show and a special programme aired called Hell on High Seas in March 2016.

In 2016, she narrated the daytime BBC series Family Finders and co-presented Ill Gotten Gains alongside Rav Wilding. She took part in the 2016 series of Tour De Celeb on Channel 5.

In September 2017, Bell won the twelfth series of BBC's Celebrity MasterChef, beating Dev Griffin and Ulrika Jonsson.

In October 2019, Bell was a panellist on BBC celebrity quiz show Richard Osman's House of Games Series 3, Week 2.

Personal life

Bell married personal trainer Stuart Amory in January 2007. The marriage ended in July 2008.

Bell began a relationship with her former BBC co-star Michael Underwood and they married in New York in December 2010. They have two children.

In August 2014, Bell 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.

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2000–2002 Xchange Presenter
2000–2006 CBBC
2000–2004 Short Change
2003 That's Genius!
2003–2004 50/50
2005, 2014— EastEnders Xtra
Holiday Hitsquad Co-presenter
2007 The Great British Village Show
Comic Relief Does Fame Academy Contestant
Dance Xtra Main presenter
Children in Need Backstage presenter
2007— The One Show Reporter/Guest presenter
2008 CelebAir Presenter
2008–2009 Election
2009 All Star Mr & Mrs Contestant With Michael Underwood
2010 The British Soap Awards Awards co-presenter
The Zone Co-presenter
2010 Project Parent Presenter
2011 Born to Shine Contestant
71 Degrees North
Something for the Weekend Guest presenter
2014 Weekend Kitchen with Waitrose 1 episode
2014 A Question of Faith Presenter
2015 Hacker's Birthday Bash: 30 Years of Children's BBC Herself One-off special
2015 Police Interceptors Presenter Series 9, Ep 11
2016 Blue Peter Co-presenter 1 episode
Hell on High Seas Participant One-off TV special
Ill Gotten Gains Co-presenter 1 series
Family Finders Narrator Series 2
Tour De Celeb Participant
2017 Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief As part of The One Show
Celebrity MasterChef Winner Series 12
2017—2023 The Martin Lewis Money Show Co-presenter
2019 The Big Family Cooking Showdown Co-presenter Series 2
2019 Richard Osman's House of Games Participant Series 3, Week 2
2020 A Very Country Christmas Co-presenter With Ellie Harrison
2023 The Apprentice Herself Series 17. Episode 3 “Cartoons”
RHS Chelsea Flower Show Co-presenter Episode 10
2023 Shop Smart, Save Money Co-presenter Alongside Ortis Deley
2023 Cutting the Cost of Christmas Presenter 7 December 2023 episode of Tonight

References

General
Specific
  1. "Angellica Bell". YouTube. 20 September 2016.
  2. "SportRelief: Hell on high seas". Archived from the original on 18 October 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  3. "BT News".
  4. "BBC - Criminals' prized possessions auctioned off for good causes on new BBC One series Ill Gotten Gains - Media Centre". www.BBC.co.uk. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  5. Power, Ed (22 September 2017). "Angellica Bell crowned Celebrity MasterChef 2017 winner". The Telegraph. Retrieved 14 April 2019 – via www.Telegraph.co.uk.
  6. Iplayer, BBC. "Richard Osman's House of Games on iplayer". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  7. "Could Michael Underwood and Angellica Bell be TV's next Richard and Judy?". 30 March 2011.
  8. "Angellica Bell dates 'GMTV's Underwood". Digital Spy. 12 July 2008.
  9. "Underwood and Bell tie the knot". BBC News. 29 December 2010. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  10. "Celebrities' open letter to Scotland – full text and list of signatories | Politics". theguardian.com. 7 August 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
  11. "A Very Country Christmas". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  12. "RHS Chelsea Flower Show". radiotimes.com. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
  13. "Cutting the Cost of Christmas". radiotimes.com. Retrieved 13 December 2023.

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