Lorraine Pascale was born on 17 November 1972 and is a British television cook and USA Food Network host and former top model, best known for selling almost one million books in the UK alone.
22 Facts About Lorraine Pascale
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Lorraine Pascale had her own cooking show on the BBC for several seasons.
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Lorraine Pascale is the United Kingdom Government Fostering and Adoption Ambassador and an emotional wellness advocate.
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Lorraine Pascale is the mother of Charlie's Angels star Ella Balinska.
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Lorraine Pascale was adopted at 18 months old and brought up in Witney, Oxfordshire, by a white couple, Roger and Audrey Woodward, who already had a son, Jason.
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Lorraine Pascale's adoptive father was a multilingual Spanish academic who had taught at Oxford, and her mother was a nurse.
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When her parents divorced when she was three years old, Lorraine Pascale remained with her mother, who subsequently became ill and could no longer care for her.
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Lorraine Pascale won a full scholarship given by the Buttle Trust and was educated at a boarding school in Devon.
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Lorraine Pascale got married in her early twenties and gave birth to her daughter, actress Ella Balinska, "a year or two later".
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At age 16, Lorraine Pascale was spotted as potential model by the agent who had found Naomi Campbell, during her career as a model, she walked with supermodels like Naomi Campbell, Karen Mulder and Kate Moss for Chanel, Versace and many fashion designers.
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Lorraine Pascale appeared in the 1998 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, and featured as one of the 'Bond Girls' in Robbie Williams' "Millennium" video.
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Lorraine Pascale recognised the need to ensure her future after modelling and embarked on a series of career "try-outs", including hypnotherapy and car mechanics.
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Lorraine Pascale took a diploma cookery course at Leith's School of Food and Wine in 2005 and found that cookery fitted her "like a pair of old jeans".
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Lorraine Pascale has opened her own cupcake shop in Covent Garden.
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Lorraine Pascale studied Culinary Arts at Thames Valley University and in March 2012 graduated with a first class degree.
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In 2015, Lorraine Pascale said she practises Transcendental Meditation to relax after work.
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In January 2011, Lorraine Pascale presented a television bakery programme, Baking Made Easy, on BBC television and published a bakery book based upon this series.
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In early 2014, Lorraine Pascale co-presented and judged the UK version of My Kitchen Rules with Jason Atherton on Sky Living.
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Lorraine Pascale was a judge on Food Network's Holiday Baking Championship and Spring Baking Championship from 2014 to 2020, as well as a mentor on Worst Bakers in America.
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Lorraine Pascale was a judge on two episodes of the first season of Bakers vs Fakers, and became the host for Season 2 before the show's abrupt cancellation in 2017.
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Lorraine Pascale has not returned to the US to appear on any Food Network shows since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Lorraine Pascale is the patron of TACT, the UK's largest fostering and adoption charity, and an ambassador of both the charities Rays of Sunshine and The Prince's Trust.