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Smillie met her husband Alex Knight, also a former model, through Fiona's agency and at one point they even considered buying the business, but they decided against it as Smillie realised that looking after a group of young models was not something she wished to take on.
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Robert Smillie, the trade unionist and Labour MP, said that, after Gladstone, Campbell-Bannerman was the greatest man he had ever met.
Smillie and her
Smillie is well known for presenting the award winning BBC series Changing Rooms, which won her a National Television Award for Most Popular Factual Programme in 1998.
Between 2007 and 2010, Smillie was the figurehead campaign model for the Scottish company The Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Alongside her daughter Christie, she was the advertising model for the Ortak jewellery company, fronting the company's new range for Autumn / Winter 2010.
Ancona's impression of Smillie used the catchphrase " I ’ m Smiley Smiley Carol Smillie ", which Smillie adopted and has entered into popular culture when referencing her.
Smillie had a happy idyllic childhood growing up in a three-bedroom bungalow in Glasgow, sharing a room with her two older sisters.
Smillie ’ s earliest memories are of having her nappy changed and, when put in her pram to go to sleep, being frightened by the wallpaper, which she finds amusing considering her later fame with the television programme Changing Rooms.
Smillie realised that it was a huge financial effort by her parents to send her there, but academically she did not shine.
Smillie eventually attained seven O-levels, fabric and fashion being one, which was the direction she felt her career would lead.
Smillie studied at Langside College to get the other two, but only managed to get one, which she has attributed to too much freedom and enjoying herself with her friends.
At 18 years of age, Smillie embarked on her first year at the Glasgow School of Art, studying Art, Design and Fashion, with the vague idea of becoming a fashion designer.
To subsidise her studies Smillie worked in a cocktail bar, and after approaching a local Glasgow model agency, took up part-time modelling.
Smillie believing that this was his way of saying, " I don't think you've got what it takes ", decided to leave the Glasgow School of Art, and embarked on modelling as her new career.
Smillie worked for the agency throughout the eighties becoming one of Fiona Best ’ s favourite models, because of her professional attitude and reliability, something a number of the other agency models lacked.
During the early nineties Smillie sent her cv to all the video and production companies in Scotland, stating that " My name's Carol Smillie.
You know me from Wheel of Fortune but I'd really like to do something else now, so I'm willing to work for nothing to get some stuff on tape " Through her perseverance Smillie managed to pick up the odd presenting job and soon had enough material to create a show-reel to present to TV companies.
During her time on the show, Smillie and the Changing Rooms team won A National TV Award and an INDIE Award and were BAFTA nominated.
In 1998, Smillie was awarded her own mid-morning chat-show on BBC One entitled Smillie's People.
In September 1998 Smillie was presented with the famous Red Book about her life, on the long-running television show This Is Your Life.
Smillie and Alex
Former residents include Alex Ferguson and Carol Smillie.
Smillie and also
In the UK a Labour Party anti-war activist Robert Smillie isuued a statement in June 1919 condeming the continuation blockade in which he also claimed that 100, 000 German civilians had died.
Smillie is also the co-author of Carol Smillie's Working Mum's Handbook.
Smillie mainly appeared on the Wednesday Midweek Draw show, but also made the occasional appearance on the Saturday night show.
His brother, George Henry Smillie was also a painter.
Smillie and model
Carol Patricia Smillie ( born 23 December 1961 ) is a Scottish television personality, model and actress.
Smillie and agency
Smillie left the agency she had been working for whilst at college, and joined the Best Modelling Agency, run by Fiona Best an ex-model.
Smillie and at
Her art tutor was into abstract art, which was an area that didn ’ t really work for Smillie, “ Throwing paint at a wall, wasn ’ t what I expected ”.
Also the properties were situated in various Southern European locations, and at the end of each show Smillie would auction off the property for the price of a £ 1 phone call to a lucky viewer picked at random.
The music video for the song, directed by Peter Smillie, takes place at a Mardi Gras-like carnival.
However, Smillie became convinced that he would be of most service at the front and persuaded McNair to let him sign up when the ILP contingent came over.
However, most attention both at the time and since, has focused on the case of Bob Smillie who died in jail in Valencia, officially of appendicitis, on 13 June.
Smillie, the first foreigner associated with the POUM to become a mortal victim of the Stalinist repression, had been detained at the French border accused of " carrying arms "-a dud hand-bomb was found among the various souvenirs he had with him.
Smillie and one
In 1919, Lloyd George sent for the leaders of the Triple Alliance, one of whom was miner's leader Robert Smillie, a founder member of the Independent Labour Party in 1889 who was to become a Labour Party MP in the first 1924 Labour government.
In June 2009, Ian Smillie of Canadian-based NGO, Partnership Africa Canada ( PAC ), and one of the founder members of the Kimberley Process resigned his position accusing the regulator of failing to regulate and saying he could no longer contribute to the " pretense that failure is success ".
Smillie and they
On arriving in Barcelona, they had two weeks of very basic training, and were joined by Bob Smillie, grandson of the well-known Scottish socialist and miners ' leader of the same name.
Smillie and looking
Smillie was sacked in January 1999 with the team looking destined for the drop.
Smillie and after
In 2003, after leaving Changing Rooms, Smillie departed the BBC for the Channel five show Dream Holiday Homes.
Smillie was eliminated after failing to garner enough public votes, despite achieving her highest scores of the competition and finishing third highest out of the remaining five competitors in the judges vote.
Smillie and was
Carol Patricia Smillie was born in Glasgow, the daughter of George Smillie, an electrical engineer and Isobel Smillie.
As a child, Smillie attended Simshill Primary School, which was very close to where she lived.
Smillie was so successful as a holiday reporter, that stints followed on BBC One for the Holiday programme.
In 1996 Smillie was selected to present The National Lottery Show for the BBC.
Smillie was back working for STV Productions in 2005 as presenter of the short-lived ITV daytime show The People's Court.
He left to manage Aston Villa in February 1998 and youth team boss Neil Smillie was given the job.
This was chaired by Cunninghame Graham, while other attendees included Irish nationalist politician John Ferguson, crofter John Murdoch, land reformer Shaw Maxwell and miners ' leader Robert Smillie.
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