Tamara Beckwith
Tamara Beckwith (born 17 April 1970) is a former It girl and celebrity noted for her coverage in glossy celebrity magazines such as OK!. She is a presenter for MTV, VH-1 and regularly appears as a reporter for television shows including This Morning and Watchdog. Tamara has also appeared in The Vagina Monologues. She also designs a range of diamonique jewellery for QVC UK.
She is the daughter of property business tycoon Peter Beckwith and lived in Wimbledon, London as a child. Both she and her sister Clare attended Cheltenham Ladies College. Tamara dropped out in order to have her daughter, Anouska Poppy Pearl - the father was an American Marine. Anouska is now studying acting in Los Angeles.
After coming to notoriety as an It-Girl with friend and fellow socialite Tara Palmer Tomkinson, Tamara developed a minor reality television career as a guest on many television programmes such as Shooting Stars, Brass Eye, Loose Women, Celebrities Under Pressure, The Big Breakfast, Trigger Happy TV, I'm Famous and Frightened! and Dancing on Ice.
Beckwith has dated Sylvester Stallone, Charlie Sheen and was engaged to Sharon Stone's brother, Michael, before marrying construction heir Giorgio Veroni in Venice on August 27, 2007.
She recently appeared on the BBC's reality TV programme Celebrity Scissorhands where Lee Stafford trained celebrities to cut hair, raising money as part of the BBC charity Children in Need.
On 10th April 2008 Tamara participated in a celebrity edition of Channel 4 show Come Dine With Me along with fellow celebrities MC Harvey, Jonathan Ansell and Lynsey de Paul. Tamara finished in third place.
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