Linda Barker
| Linda Barker | |
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Barker in 2010
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| Born |
26 October 1961 Shelf, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK |
| Nationality | English |
| Known for | Interior design and television presenter |
| Spouse(s) | Chris Short |
Linda Barker (born 26 October 1961) is an English interior designer and television presenter.
Born in Shelf, on the outskirts of Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Barker was educated at Bradford Girls' Grammar School before studying Fine Arts at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design in Farnham (now the University for the Creative Arts). She then did odd jobs in various areas including fashion, before settling into a career as an interior designer. An accomplished painter, she did up her flat in Battersea and was the subject of a House Beautiful magazine spread on interiors.
She began her work in television as a set designer, where she met her husband. It was at this time she was one of the group of people (including Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen) approached by the BBC in 1994 to work on a television show called Changing Rooms as one of the designers which started 2 years later. During this time Barker also started co-presenting House Invaders in 1999, and co-presented a three-part special called Planet Christmas in 2001. After six years of Changing Rooms, restricted by the BBC's position on commercial endorsement and disappointed to be overlooked as a replacement presenter to Carol Smillie, she agreed to leave Changing Rooms.
Barker launched her more commercially focused career by appearing in the second series of the ITV reality show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, on which she finished in third place on the final day.
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