Gail Porter

6.6	Listal rating

Stats

Age: 42, born 23 March 1971

Born and residing in: United Kingdom

Height: 5' 4"

Ethnicity: White / Caucasian

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: HUSBAND is Dave Hipgrave

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Yes, in Fact She IS Cute! (73 items)
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Published 1 year, 6 months ago

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Published 4 years, 2 months ago

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About: In 2005 Porter started suffering from alopecia areata, causing her to lose much of her hair. She refused to wear a hat or wig, deciding instead to maintain a public profile and raise awareness of the condition. She became Ambassador for the Little Princess Trust, a charity which provides wigs to children with hairloss. On an appearance on the Richard & Judy show on 15 February 2006 she showed that her hair, eyebrows and eyelashes were beginning to grow back. On 12 April 2006 Porter said &quo In 2005 Porter started suffering from alopecia areata, causing her to lose much of her hair. She refused to wear a hat or wig, deciding instead to maintain a public profile and raise awareness of the condition. She became Ambassador for the Little Princess Trust, a charity which provides wigs to children with hairloss. On an appearance on the Richard & Judy show on 15 February 2006 she showed that her hair, eyebrows and eyelashes were beginning to grow back. On 12 April 2006 Porter said "It is possible that I'm going to get my hair back." As of May 2010, hair had grown back on over 75% of her scalp, and she was beginning to colour and style her hair. By the end of the year, her hair had started falling out again.
Porter's experience with alopecia areata was the subject of the BBC ONE Life series documentary Gail Porter Laid Bare on 31 May 2006.
Her autobiography, Laid Bare: My Story Of Love, Fame And Survival, was published in September 2007.

Porter married Toploader guitarist Dan Hipgrave in August 2001 and gave birth to their daughter Honey on 3 September 2002.[citation needed] She revealed in February 2005 they had separated eight months earlier.
She dated guitarist Jonny Davies from late 2009.
Porter says she is suffering from Bipolar disorder and Insomnia.
On the 8th of September 2011 Porter gave a Radio interview to Radio 5 live's Phil Williams (a first for Porter) in which she stated that she had been detained (under the Mental_Health_Act_1983) for 17 days of treatment against her will. Porter also stated that one of the signatures on the documents to have her sectioned was that of her (at the time) boyfriend after sending a text to him stating that she was feeling suicidal, even though she says she had no intention of acting on it she admits to "being very frail, so who knows". She claims to have felt no benefit to the stay at all. Porter has praise for the staff at the facility but does say that the resources and facilities are under funded and was only seen by 3 Doctors for a very short amount of time in the 17 days ... (more)

Alopecia (1), Cute (1), Sexy (1), European (1), British (1), Scottish (1)

TV

1. Top of the Pops (1964)

Rating:

6.3

76 Watched

2. Loose Women (1999)

Rating:

3.8

45 Watched

3. Breakfast (2000)

Rating:

6.9

23 Watched

4. Live & Kicking (1993)

Rating:

5.5

19 Watched

5. The Gadget Show (2004)

Rating:

6.4

18 Watched

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Movies

1. Ali G, Aiii (2000)

Rating:

6.8

32 Watched

2. Sir Billi the Vet (2006)

Rating:

2 want to see

3. Tabloid (2004)

Rating:

1 Watched

4. Maxim Uncovered! Vol. 2 (2004)

Rating:

1 Watched

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" Picture of Gail Porter Hosted children's show Fully Booked, but achieved fame when her nude image was beamed onto the House of Commons at night, as a publicity stunt, resulting in a 100ft image of her. Gail also hit the headlines again when she sadly lost her hair, but its great to see her on the Gadget Show now! "