Siân Lloyd
Encyclopedia
Siân Lloyd is a Welsh
television presenter, best known as a ITV Weather
presenter
.
, Bridgend
, Wales
, the daughter of two teachers. She attended Ystalyfera Bilingual School and performed at the Eisteddfod where she won the Crown. She then graduated with first class honours from University College, Cardiff (now Cardiff University
). Lloyd then attended Jesus College, Oxford
where she started work for a post-graduate B.Litt. degree in Celtic Studies, but she left after one year without graduating. She has meteorology qualifications from the Met Office College, a distinction, and frequently appears in TV documentaries about the weather.
Lloyd started her media career as a researcher for BBC Wales Today
nightly news programme, having responded to an advert in the media pages of The Guardian
. She then became an announcer for S4C
. During a themed premiere for the film The Avengers she dressed in a skin-tight black catsuit, for which she won the prize for best costume.
Whilst working for Worldwide Television News in London
, she was asked to work with the Met Office
on documentaries on the weather. She then screen tested for the ITV Weather and beat two hundred people to the job. Lloyd also won the Television and Radio Industries Club
(TRIC) award for the best TV weather presenter in 2005 and 2007.
Proud of being Welsh, she set up SWS (meaning "kiss", and standing for "Social, Welsh and Sexy"), a Welsh networking club, in partnership with entertainer Stifyn Parri in the Groucho Club
. Bryn Terfel
and Siân Phillips
are now patrons.
In 2007, Lloyd won the UK Rear of the Year
competition making her the oldest woman to win the title. She also starred as the 'hidden' celebrity in an episode of the CBBC
show Hider in the House
. Lloyd also helped support Sense-National Deafblind and Rubella Association
, and in 2007 attended the launch of the Fill in the Gaps campaign.
In March 2008, Lloyd published an autobiography
, entitled A Funny Kind of Love.
In Spring 2010, Lloyd presented the first series of Wedding TV
's 'The Great Cake Bake'.
Lloyd appeared in ITV's reality television show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here!, but was the shock first celebrity to be eliminated by the public vote
Siân took part in a celebrity version of TV show Total Wipeout
which aired on 18 September 2010.
, 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
.
From 2002 Lloyd was in a relationship with Lembit Öpik
, the MP
for Montgomeryshire
, and engaged to him from 2004 to October 2006. The couple lived at a house they bought together in Opik's constituency outside Newtown, Powys
, and were due to marry in 2006. They met at a Liberal Democrats
conference session where the Press meet the MPs, 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 Proms, and they started a relationship. She appeared on Celebrity Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
with Öpik on 15 April 2006, winning £64,000 for charity.
In December 2006 it was revealed that the relationship had broken down. Lembit subsequently became romantically involved with 24-year-old Gabriela Irimia of the Cheeky Girls pop duo.
After meeting motor racing entrepreneur Jonathan Ashman at Secretary of State for Wales
Peter Hain
's 2007 St David's Day party at Westminster Palace, Ashman proposed to Lloyd in December 2007 on a holiday at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro
in Tanzania
. Lloyd and Ashman married on 30 December 2007 at Portmeirion Hotel
in Gwynedd
.
Welsh people
The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...
television presenter, best known as a ITV Weather
ITV Weather
ITV Weather is the national and regional forecast shown on UK terrestrial network ITV, and is provided by the Met Office...
presenter
Presenter
A presenter, or host , is a person or organization responsible for running an event. A museum or university, for example, may be the presenter or host of an exhibit. Likewise, a master of ceremonies is a person that hosts or presents a show...
.
Biography
Lloyd was born in MaestegMaesteg
Maesteg is a town and community in Bridgend County Borough, Wales. Maesteg lies at the northernmost end of the Llynfi Valley, close to the border with Neath Port Talbot. In 2001, Maesteg had a population of 17,859, but it is now at an estimate of 20,000....
, Bridgend
Bridgend
Bridgend is a town in the Bridgend County Borough in Wales, west of the capital, Cardiff. The river crossed by the original bridge, which gave the town its name, is the River Ogmore but the River Ewenny also passes to the south of the town...
, Wales
Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
, the daughter of two teachers. She attended Ystalyfera Bilingual School and performed at the Eisteddfod where she won the Crown. She then graduated with first class honours from University College, Cardiff (now Cardiff University
Cardiff University
Cardiff University is a leading research university located in the Cathays Park area of Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. It received its Royal charter in 1883 and is a member of the Russell Group of Universities. The university is consistently recognised as providing high quality research-based...
). Lloyd then attended Jesus College, Oxford
Jesus College, Oxford
Jesus College is one of the colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is in the centre of the city, on a site between Turl Street, Ship Street, Cornmarket Street and Market Street...
where she started work for a post-graduate B.Litt. degree in Celtic Studies, but she left after one year without graduating. She has meteorology qualifications from the Met Office College, a distinction, and frequently appears in TV documentaries about the weather.
Lloyd started her media career as a researcher for BBC Wales Today
BBC Wales Today
Wales Today is the BBC's national news programme for Wales, broadcast on BBC One Wales from the headquarters of BBC Wales in Llandaff, Cardiff....
nightly news programme, having responded to an advert in the media pages of The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
. She then became an announcer for S4C
S4C
S4C , currently branded as S4/C, is a Welsh television channel broadcast from the capital, Cardiff. The first television channel to be aimed specifically at a Welsh-speaking audience, it is the fifth oldest British television channel .The channel - initially broadcast on...
. During a themed premiere for the film The Avengers she dressed in a skin-tight black catsuit, for which she won the prize for best costume.
Whilst working for Worldwide Television News in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, she was asked to work with the Met Office
Met Office
The Met Office , is the United Kingdom's national weather service, and a trading fund of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills...
on documentaries on the weather. She then screen tested for the ITV Weather and beat two hundred people to the job. Lloyd also won the Television and Radio Industries Club
Television and Radio Industries Club
The Television and Radio Industries Club is a British institution chartered in 1931 to "promote goodwill in the television and radio industries"...
(TRIC) award for the best TV weather presenter in 2005 and 2007.
Proud of being Welsh, she set up SWS (meaning "kiss", and standing for "Social, Welsh and Sexy"), a Welsh networking club, in partnership with entertainer Stifyn Parri in the Groucho Club
Groucho Club
The Groucho Club is a well-known private social club located at Dean Street in Soho, London. Its members are mostly drawn from the media, entertainment, arts and fashion industries....
. Bryn Terfel
Bryn Terfel
Bryn Terfel Jones CBE is a Welsh bass-baritone opera and concert singer. Terfel was initially associated with the roles of Mozart, particularly Figaro and Leporello, but has subsequently shifted his attention to heavier roles, especially those by Wagner....
and Siân Phillips
Siân Phillips
Jane Elizabeth Ailwên "Siân" Phillips, CBE, is a Welsh actress.-Early life:Phillips was born in Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Neath Port Talbot, Wales, the daughter of Sally , a teacher, and David Phillips, a steelworker-turned-policeman...
are now patrons.
In 2007, Lloyd won the UK Rear of the Year
Rear of the Year
Rear of the Year is a light-hearted British award for celebrities who are considered to have a notable posterior. It was created by publicity consultant Anthony Edwards and is organised by Rear of the Year Limited.-History:...
competition making her the oldest woman to win the title. She also starred as the 'hidden' celebrity in an episode of the CBBC
CBBC
CBBC is one of two brand names used for the BBC's children's television strands. Between 1985 and 2002, CBBC was the name given to all the BBC's programmes on TV for children aged under 14...
show Hider in the House
Hider in the House
Hider in the House was a British children's game show presented by Jason King and Joel Ross . In the programme, a celebrity had to be hidden in a family's house by three children and a parent. If the family have fewer than three children, they use friends or related children to make up the numbers...
. Lloyd also helped support Sense-National Deafblind and Rubella Association
Sense-National Deafblind and Rubella Association
Sense is a national charity in the United Kingdom that supports and campaigns for children and adults who are deafblind.-History:Sense was founded in 1955 as a self-help and support group for the parents of children whose disabilities were neither recognised nor provided for, children born...
, and in 2007 attended the launch of the Fill in the Gaps campaign.
In March 2008, Lloyd published an autobiography
Autobiography
An autobiography is a book about the life of a person, written by that person.-Origin of the term:...
, entitled A Funny Kind of Love.
In Spring 2010, Lloyd presented the first series of Wedding TV
Wedding TV
Wedding TV is a woman's lifestyle television channel broadcast in the United Kingdom, on the Sky and Freesat platforms. The channel claims to be the first of its kind, concentrating on love, life, relationships and weddings...
's 'The Great Cake Bake'.
Lloyd appeared in ITV's reality television show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here!, but was the shock first celebrity to be eliminated by the public vote
Siân took part in a celebrity version of TV show Total Wipeout
Total Wipeout
Total Wipeout is a British game show, hosted by Richard Hammond and Amanda Byram, which first aired on 3 January 2009. Each week 20 contestants compete in a series of challenges in an attempt to win £10,000. These challenges are based in large pools of water or mud and generally involve large...
which aired on 18 September 2010.
Personal life
While at Cardiff UniversityCardiff University
Cardiff University is a leading research university located in the Cathays Park area of Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. It received its Royal charter in 1883 and is a member of the Russell Group of Universities. The university is consistently recognised as providing high quality research-based...
, she met Mark Cavendish, a relative of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire
Duke of Devonshire
Duke of Devonshire is a title in the peerage of England held by members of the Cavendish family. This branch of the Cavendish family has been one of the richest and most influential aristocratic families in England since the 16th century, and have been rivalled in political influence perhaps only...
and now a businessman. They were together for 14 years, often visiting the family seat at Chatsworth House
Chatsworth House
Chatsworth House is a stately home in North Derbyshire, England, northeast of Bakewell and west of Chesterfield . It is the seat of the Duke of Devonshire, and has been home to his family, the Cavendish family, since Bess of Hardwick settled at Chatsworth in 1549.Standing on the east bank of the...
.
From 2002 Lloyd was in a relationship with Lembit Öpik
Lembit Öpik
Lembit Öpik is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Montgomeryshire in Wales from 1997 until he lost his seat in the 2010 General Election...
, the MP
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
for Montgomeryshire
Montgomeryshire (UK Parliament constituency)
Montgomeryshire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Created in 1542, it elects one Member of Parliament , traditionally known as the knight of the shire, by the first-past-the-post system of election.The Montgomeryshire Welsh Assembly...
, and engaged to him from 2004 to October 2006. The couple lived at a house they bought together in Opik's constituency outside Newtown, Powys
Powys
Powys is a local-government county and preserved county in Wales.-Geography:Powys covers the historic counties of Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire, most of Brecknockshire , and a small part of Denbighshire — an area of 5,179 km², making it the largest county in Wales by land area.It is...
, and were due to marry in 2006. They met at a Liberal Democrats
Liberal Democrats
The Liberal Democrats are a social liberal political party in the United Kingdom which supports constitutional and electoral reform, progressive taxation, wealth taxation, human rights laws, cultural liberalism, banking reform and civil liberties .The party was formed in 1988 by a merger of the...
conference session where the Press meet the MPs, 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 Proms, and they started a relationship. She appeared on Celebrity Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is a television game show which offers large cash prizes for correctly answering a series of multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty. The format is owned and licensed by Sony Pictures Television International. The maximum cash prize is one million pounds...
with Öpik on 15 April 2006, winning £64,000 for charity.
In December 2006 it was revealed that the relationship had broken down. Lembit subsequently became romantically involved with 24-year-old Gabriela Irimia of the Cheeky Girls pop duo.
After meeting motor racing entrepreneur Jonathan Ashman at Secretary of State for Wales
Secretary of State for Wales
The Secretary of State for Wales is the head of the Wales Office within the British cabinet. He or she is responsible for ensuring Welsh interests are taken into account by the government, representing the government within Wales and overseeing the passing of legislation which is only for Wales...
Peter Hain
Peter Hain
Peter Gerald Hain is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for the Welsh constituency of Neath since 1991, and has served in the Cabinets of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, firstly as Leader of the House of Commons under Blair and both Secretary of State for...
's 2007 St David's Day party at Westminster Palace, Ashman proposed to Lloyd in December 2007 on a holiday at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro
Mount Kilimanjaro
Kilimanjaro, with its three volcanic cones, Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira, is a dormant volcano in Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania and the highest mountain in Africa at above sea level .-Geology:...
in Tanzania
Tanzania
The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...
. Lloyd and Ashman married on 30 December 2007 at Portmeirion Hotel
Portmeirion
Portmeirion is a popular tourist village in Gwynedd, North Wales. It was designed and built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis between 1925 and 1975 in the style of an Italian village and is now owned by a charitable trust....
in Gwynedd
Gwynedd
Gwynedd is a county in north-west Wales, named after the old Kingdom of Gwynedd. Although the second biggest in terms of geographical area, it is also one of the most sparsely populated...
.
Career
- Cardiff Broadcasting CompanyRed Dragon FMCapital South Wales is a British independent local radio station broadcasting from Cardiff Bay . The station serves Cardiff, Newport and the surrounding areas, broadcasting to a potential audience of around 1 million people...
(1980-2) - BBC Wales TodayBBC Wales TodayWales Today is the BBC's national news programme for Wales, broadcast on BBC One Wales from the headquarters of BBC Wales in Llandaff, Cardiff....
, researcher (1982-4) - Development Board for Rural Wales, press officer (1984-6)
- S4CS4CS4C , currently branded as S4/C, is a Welsh television channel broadcast from the capital, Cardiff. The first television channel to be aimed specifically at a Welsh-speaking audience, it is the fifth oldest British television channel .The channel - initially broadcast on...
, continuity announcer (1986–88) - Worldwide TV News (1988–90)
- ITV WeatherITV WeatherITV Weather is the national and regional forecast shown on UK terrestrial network ITV, and is provided by the Met Office...
presenter (1990-) - How 2How 2How 2 was an informative children's programme produced by TVS between 1990 and 1992, and STV Productions from 1993 to 2006....
presenter (1997) - The Apprentice UKThe Apprentice (UK Series Four)Series Four of The Apprentice was a British reality television series, which was won by Lee McQueen. The series began on BBC One on 26 March 2008, and ran for twelve weekly episodes. Auditions and interviews are reported to have taken place during the first two weeks of July 2007 in London,...
(Brief Appearance, in an ads campaign; 2008) - Churchill Car Insurance as the lady feeding the dog sausages.