Nadia Sawalha is best known as a long-term regular panellist on the ITV daytime talk show Loose Women, being one of the original panellists from its start in 1999 until 2002, before returning to the show in 2013 after a panellist revamp.
32 Facts About Nadia Sawalha
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Nadia Sawalha played the role of Gina in ITV comedy Second Thoughts from 1992 to 1994, and Annie Palmer on the BBC One soap opera EastEnders from 1997 to 1999.
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Nadia Sawalha prefers this to being on television, as they can do what they like.
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Nadia Sawalha's other acting television credits include Casualty, Which Way to the War and ITV police drama, The Bill.
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Nadia Sawalha has appeared in the films Clockwise, Which Way to the War, Slave of Dreams, The Vanishing Man and the BBC Victorian drama Station Jim, Caught in the Act.
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From 1999 to 2002, Nadia Sawalha was a regular panellist on the lunchtime chat show Loose Women.
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Nadia Sawalha returned in October 2013 and has appeared most weeks in the last decade.
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In 2001, Nadia Sawalha presented the short-lived ITV quiz programme It's Not the Answer with Peter Dickinson as the announcer.
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Nadia Sawalha was a co-host on the live documentary City Hospital.
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Nadia Sawalha has previously hosted the BBC One show Living in the Sun, about British expats living in Spain and Wanted Down Under, which shows families who want to make the move Down Under and what it would be like to live and work in those Antipodean nations.
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Nadia Sawalha could be seen on Accidents Can Happen, a daytime BBC One programme produced by Twofour, which follows families as they try to rebuild their homes and their lives following disaster.
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In 2005, Nadia Sawalha presented one series of the BBC One programme Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre which followed learner drivers as they learnt to drive and took their driving tests with varying degrees of success.
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Nadia Sawalha was one of the learner drivers who ended up passing her driving test at the end of the second series.
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In 2008, Nadia Sawalha returned to BBC One, to present the daytime programme, Wanted Down Under.
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Nadia Sawalha presented the 2009 programme Eating in the Sun, produced by her husband Mark Adderley and has Sawalha challenged by celebrity chefs to cook in their favourite holiday restaurants.
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From 15 February until 20 August 2010, Nadia Sawalha presented one series of the reality programme Instant Restaurant for BBC Two.
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In July 2011, Nadia Sawalha guest presented ITV Breakfast programme Lorraine and made a total of 17 appearances on the show, as a relief presenter and as a resident chef.
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In January 2011, Nadia Sawalha starred in the sixth series of ITV's Dancing on Ice with Scottish professional Mark Hanretty, but was voted out in a double elimination in the first week along with Angela Rippon and her partner Sean Rice.
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In 2012, Nadia Sawalha presented the UKTV Home series Kitchen SOS.
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From 7 January 2015, Nadia Sawalha took part in the fifteenth series of Celebrity Big Brother on Channel 5.
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Nadia Sawalha lasted 24 days in the house before being evicted.
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Nadia Sawalha took inspiration from busy households around the world as she searched for new ideas for recipes that would fit into hectic schedules.
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Nadia Sawalha started a YouTube channel with fellow Loose Women panellist Kaye Adams.
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Nadia Sawalha was raised and still lives in Croydon, South London.
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Nadia Sawalha is the daughter of the Jordanian-born British actor Nadim Sawalha and his English wife Roberta Lane.
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Nadia Sawalha is the sister of television actress Julia Sawalha and has appeared on Lily Savage's Blankety Blank with her.
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Nadia Sawalha has suffered from psoriasis and has used homeopathy rather than conventional treatment.
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In 2019, Nadia Sawalha revealed on Loose Women she suffers from tinnitus.
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On 31 May 2017, Nadia Sawalha spoke in an emotional video online about losing her hair at the age of 52.
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Nadia Sawalha said that her curls were fake and she was going through the perimenopause, the start of the menopause.
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Nadia Sawalha said that a doctor told her in September 2016 she had the balding gene.
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On 25 November 2022, Nadia Sawalha announced that she had been diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 58.