Christine Lampard

She worked on the long-running BBC Northern Ireland comedy Give My Head Peace.[6] She returned to make a cameo appearance in the show in its 2016 special.

She moved into television with BBC Northern Ireland hosting a wide variety of shows. One of her programmes was called Sky High which saw her flying around Northern Ireland in a helicopter in 2004. A weekly entertainment show called First Stop followed, and she also hosted Would You Pass The 11+[7][8] and coverage of Children in Need.[9] She presented the BBC Northern Ireland cookery show, Spill the Beans in 2005.[10]

Outside Northern Ireland, Lampard co-hosted BBC Two's Let Me Entertain You with Brian Conley[11] and in July 2007, she became co-host of The One Show on BBC One, replacing Myleene Klass. She and Adrian Chiles hosted the show for three years.[11] In January 2010, Northern Irish comedian Patrick Kielty was a guest on The One Show, when he revealed her mobile phone number to the camera. After being bombarded with calls and text messages, she changed her telephone number.[12]

In October 2009, Lampard co-presented Britain's Classroom Heroes alongside Jeremy Vine on BBC Two.[13] In 2009, she occasionally presented The National Lottery Draws on BBC One. In March 2010, she co-hosted a segment of the Sport Relief telethon with Gary Lineker.

When Adrian Chiles left the BBC in 2010, there was a great deal of speculation on whether she would extend her BBC contract or move to ITV.[14] After the speculation, Lampard also left The One Show to join ITV as the co-host of Daybreak following Adrian Chiles' departure from the BBC to ITV. Questions were raised in Parliament over the size and scale of the proposed £900,000 per year two-year BBC contract.[15] Shortly after she fired her long-term manager and signed with Chiles' management company, on 20 June 2010, the BBC announced that it had withdrawn an offer to extend her current contract.[15] Later that day ITV plc (owners of GMTV) announced she would again partner Chiles by co-hosting the revamped breakfast show with him, and also hosting other entertainment programmes.[1] On 8 July 2010, the BBC confirmed that she was not returning to The One Show after the programme returned from the World Cup break on 12 July.[16]

In September 2016, it was announced that Lampard would return to the BBC to co-present Christine and Adrian's Friendship Test.[17] She co-presented the three-part series with Adrian Chiles on BBC Northern Ireland in November 2017.[18][19]

She moved to ITV less than three hours after the BBC had withdrawn their £1 million offer for her to remain on the channel. She joined ITV on a four-year contract worth £4 million.

On 6 September 2010, she joined Adrian Chiles to host ITV Breakfast's Daybreak. The programme suffered mixed reviews and poor viewing figures in its first weeks on air,[20] and Lampard herself was the subject of criticism.[21] On 18 November 2011, she and co-presenter Adrian Chiles were replaced by Dan Lobb and Kate Garraway who presented on an interim basis. In September 2012, they were replaced by Aled Jones and Lorraine Kelly.[22]

In February 2011, Lampard presented a game show pilot for ITV called Control, but it was not commissioned for a series.[23] From 2011 until 2015, she co-hosted ITV's Christmas telethon Text Santa. In 2011, 2014 and 2015, she co-hosted the charity appeal with Phillip Schofield and with Paddy McGuinness in 2012 and 2013.[24] She has hosted a number of ITV Specials, including Simply Red: For the Last Time in 2010,[25] Duran Duran: One Night Only in 2011[26] and Michael Flatley: A Night to Remember in 2014.[27] On Boxing Day 2012, she presented That Dog Can Dance.

In 2011, she became Phillip Schofield's co-presenter on Dancing on Ice, replacing Holly Willoughby. She presented three series of the show between 2012 and 2014 when it came to an end after the ninth series on 9 March 2014.[28] For each episode of Dancing on Ice, Lampard was paid £24,163.[29] When she was hosting the show, she was the highest paid female television star, earning around £400 per minute. Dancing on Ice returned in January 2018.[30] Holly Willoughby returned to present with Phillip Schofield, meaning Lampard no longer appears.

On 11 May 2011, she presented The National Movie Awards.[31] In 2013, Lampard presented a six-part series called Off The Beaten Track. On 3 March 2014, it was announced the show had been axed.[32]

She is a frequent stand-in host on This Morning, subbing whenever Phillip Schofield or Holly Willoughby are unable to appear.[33][34]

On 23 December 2014, Lampard co-hosted one-off documentary Roman Britain From the Air with Michael Scott.[35][36] On 27 December 2014, she hosted the one-off magic special Darcy Oake: Edge of Reality[37] and acted as Darcy Oake's assistant in two illusions, first being made to appear on a large motorcycle and then being sawed in half in Oake's Clearly Impossible sawing illusion.

In 2015, Lampard presented the six-part documentary series Wild Ireland which saw her travel across the Wild Atlantic Way in Ireland.[38] In October 2016, she was a guest panellist on an episode of Loose Women.[39] She guest anchored numerous episodes of the show before becoming a permanent anchor.[40]

Since February 2017, Lampard has guest presented numerous episodes of the ITV Breakfast show, Lorraine.,[41][42] and is the regular stand-in for Lorraine Kelly during school breaks.

In October 2016, Lampard co-presented Celebrity Haunted Hotel Live for UKTV's W channel. The show, which she co-hosted alongside Matt Richardson and Jamie East, aired for five consecutive nights from 27–31 October.[43][44]

In 2018, Lampard and Richardson presented Celebrity Haunted Mansion for the W channel. It aired for five consecutive nights from 21–25 February.[45]

In 2008, Lampard took part in the sixth series of Strictly Come Dancing, in which she was partnered with professional dancer Matthew Cutler.[46]

Lampard and Cutler were eliminated on 30 November 2008, leaving the competition in fifth place, after Rachel Stevens and Vincent Simone beat them in the dance-off.[47]

At the beginning of her career, Lampard worked at Belfast Citybeat as a newsreader and presenter, working with Stephen Nolan.[48]

From January to March 2015, Lampard presented a Sunday afternoon programme called Sunday Lunch from 3–4pm on Magic Radio.[49][50]

Lampard was the voice of a radio newsreader in the 1998 Northern Irish film Divorcing Jack,[51] and the voice of Sandra in the 2010 film A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures.[52]

She set up Chrisola Entertainment Limited in 2009 and is the company's director. In 2010 and 2011, Lampard was on the judging panel for the Pride of Britain Awards.[53] She released a 60-minute fitness DVD called Christine Bleakley – The Workout in December 2011.

On 20 March 2010, Lampard made her stand-up comedy debut when she took part in Channel 4's Comedy Gala, a benefit show in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, filmed at the O2 Arena in London.[54]

In August 2014, Lampard was announced as the new brand ambassador for Soft & Gentle anti-perspirant.[55] She became an ambassador for BT Call Protect in January 2017.[56]

In November 2010, Lampard was awarded the title 'Top TV Host' at the 2010 Cosmopolitan Ultimate Women of the Year Awards.[57][58]

Lampard is a Northern Ireland ambassador for The Prince's Trust.[11] In 2010, she did a water skiing challenge, raising £1,321,623 for Sport Relief, making her the first person ever to water-ski across the English Channel.[65] In the same year, her co-host on The One Show, Adrian Chiles grew a beard, which was later shaved off by Lampard for Sport Relief, raising £60,000 in the process.[66] In 2012, Lampard took part in a 5 km run for Cancer Research UK with Heidi Range and Roxanne Pallett.[67]

Lampard is a patron for the Sparks children's charity. In 2015, she hosted the charity's winter ball alongside Jon Culshaw.[68] She also supported the Text Santa appeal and presented their annual telethon from 2011 until 2015.