Annabel Giles

Annabel Claire Giles (20 May 1959 – 20 November 2023) was a British television and radio presenter. She also worked as a qualified counsellor, psychotherapist, model, actress, writer and novelist.

Early life Giles was born on 20 May 1959 in Griffithstown, near Pontypool, Monmouthshire, Wales, as the eldest of three sisters.

Career Between 1977 and 1982, Giles trained and worked as a secretary, mostly employed in advertising agencies, which is where she was "discovered". She came to prominence as co-presenter of ITV's Posh Frocks and New Trousers with Sarah Greene. She was a regular panellist on Through the Keyhole

In 1995, Giles wrote and performed a one-woman show at the Edinburgh Festival called Looking for Mr. Giles, and a second show the following year, Anyone Can Be A TV Presenter.

Giles' first novel, Birthday Girls, reached number six in the top ten on the best-seller lists in 2001. Giles was the first celebrity to leave the jungle, on 1 December.

From 2014, Giles regularly guested on the Channel 5 chat show The Wright Stuff hosted by Matthew Wright. In summer 2018 she appeared on ITV2's My Shirley Valentine Summer and was the resident agony aunt on the Eleri Siôn show for BBC Radio Wales. Giles was a patron of a charity for parents of children with special needs, Amaze Brighton. Their daughter, Molly Lorenne, was born in March 1987. Giles had a son who was born with XYY syndrome and Asperger syndrome; in 2011, having written a blog outlining the difficulties in educating a child with these issues, she received help from an anonymous benefactor towards his education.

Giles had ADHD.