Lowri Turner

Turner was born in 1964 in London, to Welsh parents Mervyn and Shirley Turner. She received her formal education at the Grey Coat Hospital School, and Camden School for Girls.[1]

Turner began her career as a fashion journalist for The Observer in the late 1980s, and in the 1990s she became fashion editor at the London Evening Standard. In the 1990s and 2000s she was a freelance journalist writing for a wide variety of newspaper titles with op-ed copy. In 2006, she was criticized in the Welsh Assembly, where she was accused of homophobia for an article that was published in her Western Mail column entitled However much I love my gay friends, I don't want them running the country.[2][3]

Turner's television career started on GMTV in 1993. She was a regular panellist on the Channel Five series The Wright Stuff.

She was a contributor to Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the TARDIS, a documentary celebration of the 30th anniversary of Doctor Who in 1993, in which she discussed the Edwardian feel to the Doctor's costumes and her fondness for Jon Pertwee's portrayal of the character.

She has made appearances as a celebrity panelist on BBC2's quiz show Going, Going, Gone, and has presented the shows Looking Good, Shopping City, Housecall, Would Like To Meet and DIY SOS.

In 2004, Turner took part in the reality TV show Celebrity Fit Club.[4]

In 2006, she had a cameo as herself in the third episode of the second series of Extras.[5]

Turner now works as a lifestyle advisor in London specialising in diet, having acquired a 'Diploma in Nutritional Therapy' from the Institute for Optimum Nutrition.[6]

Turner has been married twice and has three children, two with her first husband Paul Connew, and one daughter with second husband, Nicol Batra, an Indian physician, from whom she is also divorced.[7]

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