19 Facts About Saira Khan

Saira Khan was a contestant on the first series of The Apprentice in 2005, in which she finished as the runner-up.

In 2012, Khan competed in the first series of The Great Sport Relief Bake Off.

From 2012 to 2017, Saira Khan co-presented The Martin Lewis Money Show, and in 2015, she presented the ITV series Guess This House.

Saira Khan has competed in the eighteenth series of Celebrity Big Brother in 2016, and in 2019, she competed in the eleventh series of Dancing on Ice.

Saira Khan was born in Long Eaton, Derbyshire to Pakistani immigrants from Mirpur, Azad Kashmir on 15 May 1970.

Saira Khan had a difficult childhood; her father was violent and died when she was 28.

In 2006, Saira Khan presented Temper Your Temper, a programme dealing with anger management.

Saira Khan has presented several documentaries for the BBC including Saira Khan's Pakistan Adventure in 2007 and Adopting Abroad, Saira's Story in 2011, as well as appearing as a guest on a variety of BBC and ITV shows such as Ready Steady Cook and Countdown.

Saira Khan presented the CBBC show Trade Your Way to the USA and previously presented Beat the Boss.

Saira Khan presented an edition of the BBC's Money Programme about entrepreneurial mothers.

In July 2016, Saira Khan entered the Celebrity Big Brother house and took part in the show's eighteenth series.

Saira Khan took part in a celebrity edition of The Chase, aired in July 2017, being knocked out in the first round by Mark Labbett.

In 2019, Saira Khan took part in the eleventh series of Dancing on Ice, and finished in ninth place, alongside her professional partner Mark Hanretty.

Saira Khan has stated that she wanted her place on the panel to go to a gay, transgender, or non-binary person.

Saira Khan competed in the third series of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins.

Saira Khan married her husband, fellow business person Steven Hyde, in December 2004, and had son, Zach, in 2008 through IVF.

In 2011, following a miscarriage and difficulties in trying to conceive a second child, Saira Khan traveled to the Edhi Foundation Orphanage in Karachi, Pakistan, where she adopted her daughter Amara when she was 4 days old.

In February 2021, Saira Khan said of her faith in a Daily Mirror column that "As a 50-year-old educated, independent woman with my own family and life experiences, I now have the courage to say that I'm no longer a practising Muslim".

In January 2013 and 2015, Saira Khan was nominated for the Services to Media award at the British Muslim Awards.