However, due to her pregnancy, she did not return to the show in the summer of 2007 and was replaced by Christine Bleakley. In the summer of 2006, Sawalha began co-presenting The One Show with Adrian Chiles. In the same year and on the same network, Sawalha also co-presented with Jeremy Milnes for one series of the programme Keeping Up with the Joneses. Sawalha was one of the learner drivers who ended up passing her driving test at the end of the second series. In 2005, Sawalha presented one series of the BBC One programme Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre which followed learner drivers as they learnt to drive and took their driving tests with varying degrees of success. She could also be seen on Accidents Can Happen, a daytime BBC One programme produced by Twofour, which follows families as they try to rebuild their homes and their lives following disaster. Sawalha has previously hosted the BBC One show Living in the Sun, about British expats living in Spain and Wanted Down Under, which shows families who want to make the move Down Under ( Australia, occasionally New Zealand) and what it would be like to live and work in those Antipodean nations. She was also a co-host on the live documentary City Hospital. In 2001, Sawalha presented the short-lived ITV quiz programme It's Not the Answer with Peter Dickinson as the announcer.įor the BBC, Sawalha has fronted four series of Passport to the Sun, one series each of Total, TV Mail, Heir Hunters, Perfect Partner and Family Exchange. She returned in October 2013 and has appeared most weeks in the last decade. Sawalha has also appeared in the films Clockwise (1986), Which Way to the War (1994), Slave of Dreams (1995), The Vanishing Man (1996) and the BBC Victorian drama Station Jim (2001), Caught in the Act (1997).įrom 1999 to 2002, Sawalha was a regular panellist on the lunchtime chat show Loose Women. Her other acting television credits include Casualty, Which Way to the War and ITV police drama, The Bill. From 1997 to 1999, she starred in EastEnders as businesswoman Annie Palmer. Career Īfter training at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, Sawalha began her career in theatre. She prefers this to being on television, as they can do what they like. She has also had minor roles in The Bill, Casualty, Benidorm and 99-1 and presented a number of television programmes in the early 2000s, whilst taking a break from Loose Women.Īfter winning the 2007 series of Celebrity MasterChef, Sawalha has been cooking with her sister Dina on YouTube since January 2023. ![]() ![]() She played the role of Gina in ITV comedy Second Thoughts from 1992 to 1994, and Annie Palmer on the BBC One soap opera EastEnders from 1997 to 1999. She is best known as a long-term regular panellist on the ITV daytime talk show Loose Women, being one of the original panellists from its start in 1999 until 2002, before returning to the show in 2013 after a panellist revamp. Nadia Sawalha ( / s ə ˈ w ə l x ə/ born 18 November 1964) is an English actress, television personality, writer, TV Cook and Vlogger.
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