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She rose to further fame when she appeared in ''[[I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!]]'', and is seen on [[television]] advertising Arthur Llewelyn-Jenkins furniture stores in [[Wales]] |
She rose to further fame when she appeared in ''[[I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!]]'', and is seen on [[television]] advertising Arthur Llewelyn-Jenkins furniture stores in [[Wales]] |
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Proud of being Welsh, she set up SWS - [http://www.swsuk.com/ Social, Welsh, Sexy] - with entertainer [[Stifyn Parri]]. It's a welsh networking club, set after a chat in [[The Groucho club]]. [[Bryn Terfel]] and [[Sian Phillips]] are now patrons |
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==Personal life== |
==Personal life== |
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Revision as of 11:06, 15 September 2006
Siân Lloyd (born 3 July, 1958 in Maesteg, Bridgend in Wales), is an ITV Weather presenter
Biography
A daughter of a Methodist Minister/artist father and a teacher mother, Lloyd attended Ystalyfera Bilingual School and performed at the Urdd Eisteddfod. She then studied English and Welsh at Cardiff University, and is a fluent Welsh language speaker. Lloyd dropped out of Oxford University while studying meteorology. She has meteorology qualifications but no meteorology degree, which is why (confirmed by the Chief IWP Meteorologist) she is never interviewed about the weather when there is a weather headline [1]
Lloyd started her media career as a researcher for BBC Wales "Today" nightly regional news program, having responded to an advert in the media pages of The Guardian [2] She then became an announcer for S4C. Siân is a big fan of the BBC cult television show The Avengers (TV series) and whilst working as an S4C in-vision continuity announcer she would often enthusiastically introduce The Avengers on a Saturday night whilst dressed in a variety of leather outfits. During a themed premiere of The Avengers (film) she dressed in a skin-tight black catsuit, for which she won the prize for best costume [3]
Whilst working for Worldwide Television News in London, she was asked to work with the Met Office on documentaries on the weather. They asked Lloyd to do a screen test, and she became a weather presenter on S4C, before transferring to ITV Weather
She rose to further fame when she appeared in I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!, and is seen on television advertising Arthur Llewelyn-Jenkins furniture stores in Wales
Proud of being Welsh, she set up SWS - Social, Welsh, Sexy - with entertainer Stifyn Parri. It's a welsh networking club, set after a chat in The Groucho club. Bryn Terfel and Sian Phillips are now patrons
Personal life
While at Cardiff University, she met Mark Cavendish, a relative of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire and now a businessman. They were together for 14 years, often visiting the family seat at Chatsworth House, while Cavendish managed her career to the point where she joined ITV Weather. Then in 1995 she had an affair with ITV Gulf War cameraman Greg Taylor, which resulted in a tabloid publicised love triangle
Lloyd is now engaged to Lembit Öpik, the MP for Montgomeryshire. The couple live in Powys, and are due to marry in 2006. They met at a Liberal Democrats conference session where the Press meet the MP's, where they talked and she lost a ring. He found it, then lost it himself, then found it again two years later and called her - she had a spare ticket to go to the The Proms, and they started dating [4] She calls him "the most fascinating man I've ever met" and revealed that they enjoy sharing late night baths [5]. She appeared on Celebrity Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? with Lembit on 15 April, 2006, winning £64,000 for charity
Trivia
- Drives a British Racing green Audi TT, registration S14 NTT, laid out to spell SIAN TT
Career
- Cardiff Broadcasting Company (1980-2)
- BBC Wales Today, researcher (1982-4)
- Development Board for Rural Wales, press officer (1984-6)
- S4C, continuity announcer (1986-88)
- Worldwide TV News (1988-90)
- ITV weather presenter (1990-)
- How 2 presenter (1997)
External links
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