Lorne Spicer
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Lorne Spicer is an English
England
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 television presenter best known for presenting reality shows on the BBC's current daytime output.

She started out as a reporter for BBC Radio Norfolk
BBC Radio Norfolk
BBC Radio Norfolk is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of Norfolk, broadcasting since 11 September 1980. It broadcasts from the studios of BBC East in The Forum, Norwich on 95.1 FM , 104.4 FM , 95.6 FM , 855 kHz AM/MW , 873 kHz AM/MW BBC Radio Norfolk is the BBC Local...

, and later went on to write a weekly collectibles column in the Mail on Sunday
Daily Mail
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. She went to Coopers' Company and Coborn School
Coopers' Company and Coborn School
The Coopers' Company and Coborn School is a 11-18 school in Upminster, in the London Borough of Havering, and is part of Essex.-Admissions:The school is a non-selective voluntary aided state comprehensive school describe by Ofsted as "an exceptional school of real excellence". The school excels at...

 and has a degree in Communication Studies (Media). She went on to produce a morning European business-news show and a personal-finance show. Spicer has also presented various programmes for ITV and BBC One such as Boot Sale Challenge and is a regular guest on money matters for This Morning and GMTV. Recently she has taken part in the BBC programme Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is, where she competed against Mark Franks to raise money for charity through her antiques expertise.
In the early 80's she spent some time working as a magician's assistant.

Spicer regularly contributes to national newspapers and magazines and is also the presenter of the daytime BBC Television programme Car Booty.

Spicer lives in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, and is married with two daughters and a son.

In 2009 it was reported that Spicer had filed for bankruptcy.

Television programmes

  • Car Booty
    Car Booty
    Car Booty is a British television programme shown on BBC One as part of their daytime schedule, and is currently showing on Digital channel, Home....

  • Money Spinners
  • Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
    Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is (TV series)
    Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is is a BBC television series devoted to pitting the knowledge and business acumen of well-known antiques experts against each other in a specific challenge. It has aired on BBC One since 10 March 2008...

  • Trash to Cash
  • Trading Treasures
  • Cash in the Attic
    Cash in the Attic
    Cash in the Attic, also Cash in the Celebrity Attic, is a UK television show on the BBC. The show, made by , premièred in 2002 and has run for sixteen series; as of February 2010, the seventeenth series is currently in production, along with the fifth celebrity series...

  • Everything Must Go
  • Boot Sale Challenge
  • My Life for Sale
  • Beat the Bailiff


They were all broadcast on the BBC
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 except Everything Must Go and Bootsale Challenge, which were on ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

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