Angus Purden

Angus Purden
Born	Angus Purden 1973 (age 43–44) Lanarkshire, Scotland
Residence	Glasgow, Scotland
Nationality	British
Occupation	Television presenter
Height	About 6 ft (1.8 m)

Angus Purden (believed to be born in 1974) is a Scottish television presenter. A teenage Mr. Scotland and model, he wrote for a local evening newspaper and is now best known for presenting do-it-yourself and Scottish lottery shows. One of the regular presenters for the BBC series Cash in the Attic since 2002, he also appeared in programmes such as Channel 4's Room For Improvement (2004) and Derek Acorah's Ghost Towns (2005–2006) for Living TV, and he was a street prize presenter and public face of People's Postcode Lottery. In April 2010, Angus became the main host of STV gameshow Postcode Challenge.

The youngest in his family with two sisters and a brother, Purden is believed to have been born in 1974. He was raised in Lanarkshire, Scotland. As a teenager, he won the title of Mr. Scotland in a Daily Record competition in 1992. The win opened the door to working as a catwalk model in Paris and Milan, including a three-year modelling stint for Giorgio Armani in Milan. According to Purden, "I was surrounded by beautiful people so I remember laughing my head off that they thought I looked exotic. I was just a wee boy from a housing estate in Lanarkshire but I had thick, long curly hair and they liked me. The designer Romeo Gigli used me as his muse, and designed an entire collection on me. It was an amazing time."

Purden wrote, a column for the Glasgow Evening Times before his break on television was on STV as a prize presenter for the quiz show Wheel of Fortune presented by John Leslie. Subsequently, he was a reporter for GMTV and Five News.

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