Angellica Bell

Angellica Bell is a British television and radio presenter, best known for her roles on The One Show and for winning the 2017 series of Celebrity MasterChef.

Early life

Born in 1976 of St. Lucian heritage, 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 joined CBBC in May 2000. She became the main anchor of shows, including That's Genius!, Xchange, 50/50 and Short Change. She has also presented EastEnders Xtra and So You Think You Can Dance.

From 2004 to 2005, she presented CBBC's The Saturday Show.

She presented Holiday Hitsquad, the BBC travel programme formerly known as Departure Lounge. On 1 December 2006, Bell announced she was leaving CBBC.

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. She is currently 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.

From May 2010, Bell presented the ITV programme The Zone with Michael Underwood. Since 2010, Bell has 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.

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. 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.^[1][2]

In 2016, she narrated the daytime BBC series Family Finders and co-presented Ill Gotten Gains alongside Rav Wilding.^[3] 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.^[4][5]

Personal life

Bell married personal trainer Stuart Amory in January 2007.^[6] The marriage ended in July 2008.^[7]

Bell began a relationship with her former BBC co-star Michael Underwood and they married in New York in December 2010.^[6] The couple's first child,^[6] Elijah Joseph Underwood, was born on 26 December 2011. In June 2013, she gave birth to a baby girl named Keziah Mae Underwood.^[8] In August 2014, Bell was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue.^[9]

Bell is the daughter of Labour politician Julian Bell, leader of Ealing council since 2010.^[10]

Filmography

References

General

• The Independent 5-minute interview

Specific

External links

• Angellica Bell on IMDb
• BBC One Show profile
• CBBC's TV Special, "Election"