Ayda Field

Ayda Field
Ayda Field in 2015
Born Ayda Sabahat Evecan
17 May 1979[1]
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Years active 1998–present
Spouse(s)
Robbie Williams (m. 2010)
Children 3

Ayda Field (born Ayda Sabahat Evecan) is an American film and television actress.

Since 2015, she has been a regular panellist on the television show Loose Women in the United Kingdom. In September 2018, she joined the judging panel on the British version of The X Factor, alongside her husband, singer Robbie Williams.

Early life

She was born in Los Angeles, California, to a Turkish father,[2] and an American mother, the movie producer Gwen Field.[3] Her father is Muslim and her mother is Jewish.[4]

She attended Harvard-Westlake School, from which she graduated in 1997.[5]

Television career

Field first became known on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives, but has subsequently specialised in comedy roles. She was a regular on Blue Collar TV, guest starred in the sitcom Eve and appeared as Jeannie Whatley on NBC's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. On the Fox sitcom Back to You, she played Montana Diaz Herrera (a.k.a. Sally Lerner), News 9's weather woman. She appeared in 10 episodes of Season One.

Field joined the cast of a sitcom pilot, Making It Legal (playing a lawyer named "Elise") but ABC did not pick up the pilot.[6] In June 2008, she was cast in the female lead on ABC's untitled David Kohan/Max Mutchnick comedy pilot, replacing Sarah Lafleur.

Field made her UK TV debut in the final series of Fresh Meat in 2016. Also in 2016, she appeared in the ITV/Netflix series Paranoid. Field joined ITV's Loose Women as a guest panellist, in 2016.

In 2018, she joined The X Factor judging panel alongside her husband Robbie, show creator Simon Cowell and One Direction's Louis Tomlinson.[7]

Personal life

Field is married to English singer-songwriter Robbie Williams.[8] They began dating in May 2006 and have lived together since 2009.[9] In November 2009, Williams proposed to Field during a live interview on Sydney radio station 2Day FM, but later said that the proposal was a joke and that they were not engaged.[10] It was subsequently confirmed that they had become engaged over Christmas of that year. She and Williams were married at his home in Mulholland Estates, Beverly Hills on August 7, 2010.[11][12][13]

On 30 March 2012, Williams and Field announced that they were expecting their first child together; a girl.[14] On September 18, 2012, Theodora Rose 'Teddy' Williams was born.[15] They also have a son, Charlton Valentine 'Charlie' Williams, born October 27, 2014. The labour was live-tweeted by Williams. On 7th September 2018 Field announced via Instagram that a surrogate had delivered them a third baby.[16] They named their second daughter Colette 'Coco' Josephine Williams.[17]

References

  1. "Ayda will be "good for Robbie"". 9 August 2010. Retrieved 2018-10-14 via news.bbc.co.uk.
  2. "Robbie Williams - Ayda Field's Tearful Phone Reunion With Dad", contactmusic.com, Retrieved on 2010-08-10.
  3. Corrodus, Corrine (18 July 2018). "Who is Ayda Field, the newest judge on this year's X Factor?" via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  4. https://www.thejc.com/news/the-diary/jewish-bridesmaid-named-royal-wedding-party-princess-eugenie-1.470725
  5. "Pictures from Robbie Williams' wife Ayda Field's past, including her taking part in a hula-hoop contest at school". Mirror Online. August 19, 2010. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  6. "UNTITLED SACHS & JUDAH PROJECT (ABC)". Retrieved 2007-09-30.
  7. "Robbie Williams, Ayda Field, Louis Tomlinson: All change for X Factor 2018". BBC News. BBC. September 1, 2018. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  8. « Robbie Williams marries Ayda Field at home in LA », peoplestar.co.uk, Retrieved on 2010-08-08.
  9. "Robbie Williams and girlfriend Ayda Field are settling into British life well". London: The Sun. 2009-06-01. Retrieved 2010-04-01.
  10. "Robbie Williams denies engagement". BBC News. 2009-11-28. Archived from the original on 2 April 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-01.
  11. "Robbie Williams to wed in a secret ceremony". AllVoices. Retrieved 2010-06-08.
  12. McIntyre, Samantha (August 7, 2010). "Pop Star Robbie Williams Weds". Archived from the original on 15 August 2010. Retrieved August 8, 2010.
  13. « Robbie: "I Take That woman to be my wife" », http://christinelovendahl.blogg.no/1281434588_i_take_that_woman_to_.html, Retrieved on 2017-01-04.
  14. "Robbie Williams and wife Ayda Field expecting baby girl". The Times Of India. 25 May 2012.
  15. "Theodoa Rose Williams: Robbie Williams, wife welcome baby girl". The Huffington Post. September 19, 2012. Retrieved February 12, 2013.
  16. "Robbie Williams live tweets wife Ayda Field's labour and birth of his son". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  17. "Robbie Williams and Ayda Field welcome surrogate baby". BBC News. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
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