Anne McKevitt
| Anne McKevitt | |
|---|---|
| Born | Caithness, United Kingdom |
| Residence | Sydney, Australia |
| Known for |
Interior designer Property developer TV host |
| Television |
Home Front This Morning GMTV STV |
| Website | www |
Anne McKevitt (born in 1967, in Caithness, United Kingdom) is an entrepreneur, TV personality, author and philanthropist.
Anne McKevitt was born in 1967 in Caithness, in northern Scotland. She spent her childhood in a poor area, living together with her family in local council housing. She mentioned that she was the first girl in the Highlands refusing to do cookery and sewing lessons in high school, instead doing metal work and technical drawing lessons with a class of boys. She revolted at school against dissecting animals for biology and managed to change the high school policy in this matter. At age 15, Anne left school and went to London, where she started to work as a junior hairstylist.
Anne McKevitt was trained as a hairstylist by John Frieda, creating hair styles for major catwalk shows, pop video shoots, TV commercials, magazine covers and fashion spreads. Within a few years, she became established in the fashion business, considered in the British media of that time as one of the top four hairstylists in the UK.
In 1986, she suffered a serious car accident, which left her unable to walk for 18 months. The event was a turning point in her career, preventing her to return to the fashion world. The recovery was not complete, the effects of some spinal injuries were only ameliorated with alternative treatment provided by Linda and Paul McCartney (two of her former clients).
As part of her recuperation, she spent time revamping her own apartment. When she was asked by other people to help them renovating their houses, this proved to be the inception of a successful business. In 1990, Anne started her first company with finance from her credit card, refurbishing and developing London homes, then a second one for handling interior design of existing properties.
After a year, her property development business had a multimillion-pound turnover, her work resulting also in several design awards, including the Housing Design Award 2000 and Best Home in Scotland.
In 1995, as a result of her success as an interior designer and property developer, Anne was asked to host a new lifestyle TV show. From 1995 until 2000, she appeared for the BBC in 18 series of lifestyle programmes (including Home Front, 1996 - 2000 seasons) that were syndicated in 22 countries. Anne also featured in various other UK TV shows (among them, the ITV programmes and subsidiaries This Morning, GMTV, STV) and later appeared on several US networks. She also appeared as a guest on TV shows in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Sweden, Hong Kong, Japan, South Africa, UK, United States and Zimbabwe.
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