Ideal Home Show & Eat & Drink Festival 31 May - 3 June 2018

Justin Levett - Divisional Director and Giles Perry - Show Director - Media 10

Rosemary endeared herself to the nation when she took part in 'I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here' where she proved she could cook just about anything, anywhere. She is best known for appearing on many TV cookery programmes including; ‘Ladette to Lady', ‘Rosemary Shrager's School for Cooks', ‘This Morning', ‘The Alan Titchmarsh Show'. Her latest programmes include The Real Marigold Hotel as well as The Real Marigold on Tour. Rosemary's The Chopping Block, filmed at her cookery school in Tunbridge Wells also aired in Spring 2016. A second series will air from March 2017.

Tony will be appearing at the show on Thursday 31st May. Leith-born chef, Tony Singh, is a leading personality in the Scottish restaurant industry. As chef director of a string of award-wining restaurants in Edinburgh – including Tony’s Table, Roti and more recently Oloroso – Tony has pushed the boundaries of culinary innovation for over 16 years. Always open to new ideas, his approach to food is to ‘keep it real and fun’. After formal training at Telford College, his distinctive style soon developed, leading to positions with The Royal Yacht Britannia, The Balmoral Hotel, The Royal Scotsman Train and Skibo Castle.Today, Tony is known for his contemporary Scottish cooking, which combines his love of local produce with influences from his Sikh upbringing – both his Mum and Dad were great cooks! His menus feature all the very best seasonal ingredients, sourced right off his doorstep, with a spicy Indian/Asian twist. Awards for his culinary talents include: Drambuie Chefs Association Best New Restaurant of the

Ma Robert's The Taste of Tanzania

Bon Accord Soft Drinks

Evergreen Sheds and Decking

Hydropool

The Garage Door Company

Papillion Designs & Landscaping

Stylish Gates, Fences & Daisy House

The Bathroom Company. Bathrooms- wet rooms- disability adaptations- wet walls- gas boilers- electric boilers- central heating systems

A Kessler kitchen comes with the best furniture hardware in the market, along with an 18mm ridged built carcass in the colour of your choice. Our passion for design helps us stand out against our competitors and our state of the art manufacturing facility in Central Scotland allow us to produce the best, hardwearing, fully assembled kitchens in the market. With direct from the factory prices we insure our customers get the kitchen of their dreams without paying inflated retail prices and without compromising on quality.

An exclusive collection of made to measure and bespoke quality, wood furniture, sofas and kitchens & an Interior Design Service.

The Edinburgh Table Company - Rustic Farmhouse Tables Handmade in Scotland

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Amanda will be appearing at the show on Sunday 3rd June. Amanda Lamb is one of the UK's most recognised lifestyle and property presenters. Her latest series, Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb is in it's third series on More4. Amanda also recently presented Beat My Build for Channel 4 and is probably best known as the presenter of the phenomenally successful A Place in the Sun which she presented for 5 years and as the face of Scottish Widows, a relationship that lasted for 10 years. Other TV accolades include You Deserve This House for Channel 4, My Flatpack Home and What the Neighbours Did for UKTV Home, Market Kitchen for UKTV, Family Supercooks for UKTV Food and she is also a regular on The Wright Stuff on Five. Amanda has a range of luggage and travel bags and accessories with QVC and writes regularly for A Place in the Sun Magazine as well as often speaking at live events including the Ideal Home Show and A Place in the Sun Live. Amanda has two young daughters and as a family loves nothing more than s

David will be appearing at the show on Saturday 2nd June. David Domoney is a Chartered Horticulturalist whose expertise has won him 30 Royal Horticultural Society Medals for garden design and plant exhibits at national garden shows in the UK. He designed the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Garden at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show to celebrate the Commission’s Centenary. David Domoney presents gardening on national television to 4 million viewers and he writes for national newspaper the Sunday Mirror. He also writes for two big magazine titles: House Beautiful magazine, one of the UKs leading home and lifestyle titles, and Grow Your Own magazine, the biggest specialist in garden home produce. These combined publications give him an audience of 3 million readers. David is Gardening Ambassador for THRIVE, a national charity that enables positive change in the lives of disabled and disadvantaged people through the use of gardening and social horticultural therapy. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute

John will be appearing at the show on Friday 1st June and Saturday 2nd June. John Amabile is best known as one of the the UK’s leading designers and best known as a popular TV Design communicator. His TV shows include, 60 Minute makeover and Better Homes, as well as regular appearances on daily TV magazine programming and in UK press. His design company has also had a 2017 makeover, renamed John Amabile Design Ltd. He now solely designs his expertise with his team in creating tailor made design solutions for commercial projects, hotels, leisure, show homes and private homes. As well as his charity ambassadorship and design solutions for health, welfare and respite homes and facilities, John is also combing his ‘121’ talents with his new ’Room in a box’ service integrating internet and media technology for cost effective online design solutions launching Summer 2017! He loves Design and loves to help others create their dream rooms! Last year’s Ideal Home Show saw John in his role again as Interiors Amba

TV Chef Rosemary Shrager will be taking to the stage to make a delicious Peking duck dish. As well as being a well-established cook, Rosemary is always entertaining! And we are sizzling with excitement, as Tony Singh will also be joining us! He will be using his talents to give amazing tips and ideas on how to use up your leftovers and throw less food away - which will save you money at the same time. Learn from a ‘Master Chef The Professionals’ former quarter finalist Mark Heirs to get some different Spring dinner ideas. He will be serving up a venison dish and a bramble chocolate brownie with peanut butter cream - delicious! And that’s not all - Michelin starred chefs and drinks experts will all be introducing us to new culinary horizons at the show!

Phil will be appearing at the show on Thursday 31st May. Phil Spencer was born in 1969 in Canterbury, Kent. Brought up on a family farm, he’s a country boy and spent his entire childhood messing around outdoors on the farm with his three siblings, learning about nature and conservation and playing lots of cricket. Phil was educated at Uppingham School in Rutland. He left school after A-levels in 1988 with dreams of either joining the army or playing professional cricket. After a year teaching sport in a school on Australia’s Gold Coast he joined the British Army on a 3 month Potential Officers course and played junior county cricket for Kent. His passion for property emerged when, after a stint working for an estate agent in Canterbury, he decided to head to University and sat a 4 year degree course in General Practice Surveying at London’s Southbank University. Having gained his Surveying degree, in 1996 Phil founded the company Garrington Home Finders (www.garrington.co.uk), and was one of the very first