Who is Charlie Dimmock?
Charlotte Elouise Dimmock was born on tenth August 1966 in Romsey, Hampshire. She is the one little one of Terry, a service provider seaman, and Sue, who ran her personal garments store. The TV character grew up within the New Forest and sometimes loved enjoying outdoors together with her pals as a toddler.
Childhood and upbringing
Despite being saved up by her dad and mom’ wild events, her childhood was a cheerful one with household at its coronary heart. She was spoiled by her father and spent a number of time together with her grandfather, serving to him within the household vegetable backyard.
© Photo: RexCharlie graduated from horticultural faculty, however had initially deliberate to take a course in forensic science. She recollects her father being “pleased and rather proud” on the time. Following commencement, Charlie joined Romsey Garden Centre, the place she labored to economize so as to go travelling within the early 90s.
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Television profession
After her time overseas, Charlie returned to Romsey to proceed working on the Garden Centre. It was there in 1992 that she was noticed by TV producer John Thornicroft, who was visiting in the hunt for water crops for a programme he was engaged on. It wasn’t till early 1997, nonetheless, that he got here calling a couple of potential slot on BBC backyard make-over present Ground Force.
© Photo: BBCOn the present, which ran for twelve seasons between 1997 and 2005, Charlie labored alongside Alan Titchmarsh and Tommy Walsh. This catapulted her into the limelight and made her a family title in a single day. It additionally led to a collection of profitable spin-offs together with a e-book, a calendar and a backyard gnome.
With her face and title rising synonymous with gardening within the UK, Charlie turned President of the Television and Radio Industries membership in 2003. The following yr she branched out into the US, the place she offered a gardening slot on a CBS breakfast present.
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Having at all times been a fan of the good open air, Charlie later returned to the UK to current an ITV collection known as River Walks. In this present, she visited individuals and landmarks alongside the banks of various rivers in Southern England. The present started its third collection in January 2008.
Three years later Charlie took on the position of gardening knowledgeable within the ITV breakfast present Daybreak, which is now Good Morning Britain. She additionally joined the presenting group on the BBC present Garden Rescue in 2016.
Outside of tv, Charlie wrote a weekly gardening column for the Mail on Sunday till 2008. In 2016 she launched her personal vary of gardening gear with excessive avenue store Poundland, ‘In the Garden with Charlie Dimmock’.
Personal life
While travelling in New Zealand through the early 90s Charlie met viticulturist John Mushet, whom she settled down with upon returning residence. Although John referred to her as “the missus” throughout their relationship, the pair have been by no means married and break up in 2001 after Charlie had a fling with Ground Force microphone operator Andy Simmons. Her time with Andy was short-lived, nonetheless, as Charlie went on to have a relationship with one other member of the programme’s crew, sound technician Barry Smith.
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In 2004 her mom and step-father tragically died within the Asian tsunami, and Charlie turned down work as she realized to deal with her loss. She continued to maintain a low profile till 2006, when she made a return to tv in Celebrity Masterchef.
Her hovering TV profession hasn’t modified her although, she insists: the gardener’s aspirations stay firmly grounded and modest. All she needs is “To grow old, I guess. Become a dotty old dear and potter around the garden. It’s probably easier to achieve than most ambitions.”
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