Charlie Dimmock
| Charlie Dimmock | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Charlotte Elouise Dimmock 10 August 1966 Southampton, Hampshire, England |
| Education | Wellow Primary School, The Mountbatten School, and Cannington Horticultural college |
| Occupation | Gardening expert and TV presenter. |
| Employer | BBC, ITV, CBS |
| Known for | TV presenting |
| Home town | Romsey, Hampshire, England, UK |
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
| Parent(s) | Terry and Sue Dimmock |
Charlotte Elouise "Charlie" Dimmock (born 10 August 1966) is an English gardening expert and TV presenter. She was one of the team on Ground Force, a BBC gardening makeover programme.
Dimmock is a former pupil of Wellow Primary School and the Mountbatten School in Romsey, Hampshire. Her father was a merchant seaman, and her mother Sue ran her own clothes shop. When she was at school Dimmock wanted to specialise in forensic science.
Dimmock first came to the public's attention in 1997, when she joined the BBC gardening series Ground Force. Dimmock met the producer/director of the series five years previously when she built a pond for the Meridian series, Grass Roots. Dimmock unintentionally became known for appearing braless on shows.
Since then, she has presented such programmes as The Joy of Gardening and Charlie's Garden Army, as well as presenting coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show. In 2004, she appeared in the Channel 4 reality TV show, The Games. She has also appeared on American television, presenting a gardening slot on The Early Show on CBS. In September 2006, she appeared on the BBC's Celebrity MasterChef.
She has also written several gardening books, including the BBC Ground Force books Water Garden Workbook and Container Gardening, as well as Enjoy Your Garden, a book on general gardening published in 2000. Dimmock wrote a weekly gardening column in the Mail on Sunday for many years, until January 2008.
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