Anna Gare

Anna Gare is an Australian musician, cook, television personality and author.

Biography Gare was born 10 March 1969 in Subiaco, Western Australia and grew up in Fremantle. She attended the Lance Holt School, where as a student she ran a canteen for students and staff.

Musician Gare started off her career as a musician when she was twelve when she formed an all-female band with her sister Sophie and two friends, Jodie Bell and Lucy Lemann, called the Jam Tarts. The band was managed by their mother, Kate Gare. and toured with Rik Mayall and Jonathan Richman. The Jam Tarts also played as part of a larger band in combination with the Nansing Quartet, a six piece band whose members included Lucky Oceans, Adam Gare, Sam Lemann, Peter "Biff" Vincent, Peter Bell and Neale Austin. In 1986 she featured in an Australian film Pursuit of Happiness, as a 15-year-old who sings in a rock band and opposes American nuclear submarines being harboured in Australian waters.

Whilst Gare was in the Jam Tarts, she supplemented her rock and roll lifestyle with cooking, where she worked in various restaurants around Australia.

Cooking and television In 1991, after a decade in rock and roll, she decided it was time for a change.At 25 I had two children and didn't feel like doing the rock and roll thing any more – even the thought of playing in a smoky pub (as they were in those days) was not on.|Anna Gare which she operated until June 2007.

She went on to present her own cooking segment on the magazine chat show Perth at Five.

In 2007, Gare co-starred with chefs Ben O'Donoghue and Darren Simpson in The Best in Australia on The LifeStyle Channel.

In late 2008, she was approached by the producers of Masterchef Australia and auditioned for the position of mentor, host or judge on the show. However, she pulled out of the audition process, deciding to spend more time with her family, because the show was being filmed in Sydney. She subsequently appeared as an additional judge on the first series of Junior MasterChef Australia, which premiered on 12 September 2010.

In 2013, Gare co-hosted an Australian reality television baking competition, The Great Australian Bake Off, with Shane Jacobson. In 2017, she began presenting a cooking segment in Destination WA, a Nine Network program.

Personal Anna is the daughter of Bob and Kate Gare, and is one of four children. Her father is an architect and her elder brother Tom is an artist. Her eldest brother Adam is a musician and member of The Nansing Quartet, and her sister, Sophie, is married to English comedian and author Ben Elton.

Gare married a fellow Perth musician and had two children. In 2008 she married former Australian and NBA player Luc Longley, who has two daughters from a prior marriage. Since 2015 the couple have lived in a property near the coastal Western Australian town of Denmark. Delicious Every Day published 2016