Christine Lampard

Christine Louise Lampard (née Bleakley, born 2 February 1979) is a Northern Irish broadcaster.

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+ and coverage of Children in Need.

She presented the BBC Northern Ireland cookery show, Spill the Beans in 2005.

She has presented various television programmes with Adrian Chiles, such as The One Show (2007–2010) and Daybreak (2010–2011), while with Phillip Schofield she has presented Dancing on Ice (2012–2014) and This Morning (2013–2016, 2023–present).

Outside Northern Ireland, Lampard co-hosted BBC Two's Let Me Entertain You with Brian Conley 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.

In October 2009, Lampard co-presented Britain's Classroom Heroes alongside Jeremy Vine on BBC Two.

In 2009, she occasionally presented The National Lottery Draws on BBC One.

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.

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.

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.

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fired her long-term manager and signed with Chiles' management company, on 20 June 2010, the BBC announced that it had withdrawn an offer to extend her current contract.

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.

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.

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, and Lampard herself was the subject of criticism.

She has hosted a number of ITV Specials, including Simply Red: For the Last Time in 2010, Duran Duran: One Night Only in 2011 and Michael Flatley: A Night to Remember in 2014.

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 February 2011, Lampard presented a game show pilot for ITV called Control, but it was not commissioned for a series.

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.

In September 2012, they were replaced by Aled Jones and Lorraine Kelly.

Lampard has also presented factual series for ITV including Off The Beaten Track (2013) and Wild Ireland (2015).

Since 2016 she has been a presenter of the ITV lunchtime chat show Loose Women.

Christine Bleakley was born in Daisy Hill Hospital, Newry, and grew up in Newtownards.

She has a younger sister, Nicola.

She started her television career as a runner and then trained to become a floor manager while studying for her A-Levels at Bloomfield Collegiate School in Ballyhackamore, Belfast.

She continued to work at BBC NI while studying for a politics degree at Queen's University, Belfast.

However, she did not complete her degree course, and instead moved into television work full-time.

She worked on the long-running BBC Northern Ireland comedy Give My Head Peace.

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.

In September 2016, it was announced that Lampard would return to the BBC to co-present Christine and Adrian's Friendship Test.

She co-presented the three-part series with Adrian Chiles on BBC Northern Ireland in November 2017.

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.