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Tara Palmer Tomkinson
Tara Palmer-Tomkinson also known as TPT, is a well-known one-time English "it girl", television personality, presenter, commercial model, columnist and sometime concert pianist.
Since 1990, her antics have been well-covered by the British tabloid press, and in the mid to late 1990s, she wrote a weekly column for the Sunday Times and subsequently contributed to The Spectator, The Mail on Sunday, GQ, Eve, Harpers and Queen, Tatler, Instyle and The Observer sporadically.
I'm a Celebrity
Her public profile was widened when she made a memorable appearance on the British television series I'm a Celebrity, Get Me out of Here!, finishing runner up and she has since presented the 'behind the scenes' series on ITV2 for I'm a Celebrity.
Tara has also appeared on the reality shows Spelling Bee and Cold turkey, which followed her attempts to quit smoking with Sophie Anderton, celebrity specials of A Place in the Sun and Blind Date and in episodes of Tabloid tales, With a little help from my friends, Russian Roulette, Celebrities under pressure and Project Catwalk.
Television & Radio Presenter
Palmer-Tompkinson's presenting credits include Animals do the funniest things with Tony Blackburn, Junior Eurovision, The British comedy awards...Party on, What kids really think, Popworld, Top of the pops, SM:TV Live, Company Magazine Bachelor of the year, Dumb Britain, Extreme, a role as a team captain on Bognor or bust which was hosted by Angus Deayton and work for GMTV, Five, LBC radio and the music channel The Hits.
Palmer-Tompkinson is a regular talking head on a vast array of celebrity based documentaries and in 2005, was named Woman of the year by New Woman magazine. She has played herself in the film Mad Cows and an episode of Footballers Wives and also acted in a film version of An Ideal Husband and was for a period, the face of Walkers Crisps replacing Victoria Beckham.
