# Kirstie Allsopp
**Kirstie Allsopp** (Kirstie Mary Allsopp) is a British television presenter known for the [Channel 4](https://www.edgepedia.org/channel-4) property program *Location, Location, Location*, which she has co-presented with Phil Spencer since 2000, and for a later strand of craft and homemaking series on the same channel. She holds the courtesy title [The Honourable](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-honourable) as the daughter of a baron.[1](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10333484/Kirstie-Allsopp-I-dont-do-things-I-dont-want-to-succeed-in.html)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Full name and title | Kirstie Mary Allsopp; officially The Honourable Kirstie Allsopp, daughter of the sixth Baron Hindlip[1](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10333484/Kirstie-Allsopp-I-dont-do-things-I-dont-want-to-succeed-in.html) |
| Signature program | *Location, Location, Location* with Phil Spencer, Channel 4, from 2000; 2.5 million-plus viewers by its 19th series in 2013[1](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10333484/Kirstie-Allsopp-I-dont-do-things-I-dont-want-to-succeed-in.html) |
| Route into television | Founded the property search company Kirmir aged 25; a favorable newspaper article about it led to a screen test with Spencer[1](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10333484/Kirstie-Allsopp-I-dont-do-things-I-dont-want-to-succeed-in.html) |
| Craft and homemaking series | *Kirstie's Homemade Home* (2009), *Kirstie's Handmade Britain* (2011), *Kirstie's Vintage Home*, *Kirstie's Handmade Christmas*, and related specials[2](https://www.gordonpoole.com/talent/kirstie-allsopp/) |
| Later co-presenting | *Kirstie & Phil's Love It or List It*, 41 episodes from 2015 to 2025 per IMDb[3](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1282349/) |
| Books and business | Four books by 2013, the cookbook *Kirstie's Real Kitchen*, a Marks & Spencer homeware range, and a production company with Spencer[1](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10333484/Kirstie-Allsopp-I-dont-do-things-I-dont-want-to-succeed-in.html) • [4](https://www.independent.ie/life/food-drink/kirstie-allsopp-theres-nothing-traditional-about-my-life/36128117.html) |
| Public positions | Advice to young buyers to move to cheaper areas and cut spending drew criticism in a December 2021 Guardian opinion piece[5](http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/kirstie-allsopp) |
## Early life and family
Allsopp grew up in the village of Inkpen, Wiltshire, the eldest of four children. Her mother, Fiona, was an interior decorator; her father, Charles, the sixth Baron Hindlip, was chairman of the auction house [Christie's](https://www.edgepedia.org/christies).[1](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10333484/Kirstie-Allsopp-I-dont-do-things-I-dont-want-to-succeed-in.html) In a 2010 Guardian interview she said she went to ten schools "because I was just so happy at home and, consequently, not happy at any school".[6](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/oct/30/kirstie-allsopp-my-family-values)
Her working life began in the family's professional world. From the age of 15 she worked as a Christie's porter every school holiday, and by 17 she was working full-time for an estate agent.[6](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/oct/30/kirstie-allsopp-my-family-values) She skipped university to teach English in India, then worked for *Country Living* magazine and Christie's before setting up her first property search company, Kirmir, at 25.[1](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10333484/Kirstie-Allsopp-I-dont-do-things-I-dont-want-to-succeed-in.html) Her agency profile dates the home search company to 1996 and says it focused on top-end purchases in Central and [West London](https://www.edgepedia.org/west-london), after early career work in interior design at Christie's gave her a passion for property.[2](https://www.gordonpoole.com/talent/kirstie-allsopp/)
## Television career
**The break.** A favorable newspaper article about Kirmir was spotted by a Scottish production company, the same company that screen-tested Allsopp alongside the property expert Phil Spencer, her co-presenter on *Location, Location, Location*.[1](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10333484/Kirstie-Allsopp-I-dont-do-things-I-dont-want-to-succeed-in.html) Her agency account agrees that her property experience led to her being head-hunted to co-present Channel 4's *Location, Location, Location* and *Relocation, Relocation* with Spencer.[2](https://www.gordonpoole.com/talent/kirstie-allsopp/)
**The property franchise.** *Location, Location, Location* has run on Channel 4 from 2000, and *Relocation, Relocation* was a spin-off, in both cases with Spencer.[7](https://repository.lincoln.ac.uk/articles/chapter/From_homebuyer_advisor_to_angel_of_the_hearth_the_development_of_Kirstie_Allsopp_as_the_female_face_of_Channel_4_squeezed_middle_austerity_programming/24358603) By its 19th series in 2013 the show's viewing figures topped 2.5 million.[1](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10333484/Kirstie-Allsopp-I-dont-do-things-I-dont-want-to-succeed-in.html) After the 2008 property slump, when Channel 4 questioned whether the show would survive, it recorded its highest ever viewing figures, ending talk of cancellation.[1](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10333484/Kirstie-Allsopp-I-dont-do-things-I-dont-want-to-succeed-in.html) By the time of a 2018 interview the show had run for 18 years and was in its 23rd series.[4](https://www.independent.ie/life/food-drink/kirstie-allsopp-theres-nothing-traditional-about-my-life/36128117.html) IMDb credits her with nine episodes of *Relocation, Relocation* between 2003 and 2009.[3](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1282349/)
**Craft and homemaking.** From 2009 she fronted a parallel strand of programs. Channel 4's press site describes *Kirstie's Handmade Britain*, in which she travels the UK visiting county fairs and submitting entries to craft competitions; because the competitions are anonymous, entrants do not know who she is. The broadcaster styles her "Queen of the Homemade Home".[8](https://www.channel4.com/press/news/kirstie-allsopp-interview) Her agency lists *Kirstie's All-Star Stitch Up*, *Kirstie's Homemade Home*, *Kirstie's Vintage Home*, and Christmas specials among her Channel 4 output.[2](https://www.gordonpoole.com/talent/kirstie-allsopp/) IMDb adds *Kirstie's Handmade Christmas* and *Kirstie's Celebrity Craft Masters* (11 episodes, 2019).[3](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1282349/)
**Continued partnership.** IMDb credits *Kirstie & Phil's Love It or List It* with 41 episodes from 2015 to 2025, indicating presenting work continuing past late 2023.[3](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1282349/) The durability of the partnership was illustrated when Spencer returned to filming *Location, Location, Location* with Allsopp less than a month after both his parents died in a car accident.[9](https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/kirstie-allsopp/)
## Writing and business ventures
By 2013 Allsopp had written four books and fronted a homeware range for [Marks & Spencer](https://www.edgepedia.org/marks-and-spencer), and headed her own production company.[1](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10333484/Kirstie-Allsopp-I-dont-do-things-I-dont-want-to-succeed-in.html) She later added cookery with her debut cookbook, *Kirstie's Real Kitchen*, and established a TV production company with Spencer.[4](https://www.independent.ie/life/food-drink/kirstie-allsopp-theres-nothing-traditional-about-my-life/36128117.html)
## Public positions and advocacy
Allsopp's comments on housing affordability have drawn press criticism. A December 2021 Guardian opinion piece attacked her advice that young buyers should move to cheaper areas and cancel Netflix to save for a home, under the headline "No, Kirstie Allsopp, cancelling Netflix won't buy a house – in any location".[5](http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/kirstie-allsopp) A February 2022 Guardian feature asked whether property shows such as *Location, Location, Location* and *Grand Designs* fuel the UK housing crisis, amid what it called an "unprecedented crisis in home ownership".[5](http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/kirstie-allsopp)
## Reception and place in British television
Critical reception of Allsopp is divided: some feel her style is condescending, while others rate her highly.[1](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10333484/Kirstie-Allsopp-I-dont-do-things-I-dont-want-to-succeed-in.html) Academic scholarship has taken her craft programs as a case study in Channel 4's response to austerity. A [University of Lincoln](https://www.edgepedia.org/university-of-lincoln) repository chapter analyses her presenter persona in *Kirstie's Handmade Britain* (2011) and *Kirstie's Homemade Home* (2009, series 1), arguing that her mode of address in these programs builds on, but also reshapes, her earlier performances of "respectable glamour" and middle-class cultural capital in the property-buying shows.[7](https://repository.lincoln.ac.uk/articles/chapter/From_homebuyer_advisor_to_angel_of_the_hearth_the_development_of_Kirstie_Allsopp_as_the_female_face_of_Channel_4_squeezed_middle_austerity_programming/24358603) The same chapter situates her within a Channel 4 strand of "state-of-the-nation" austerity programming that opened space for female authority on British television, alongside presenters such as Mary Portas, with her small-business revivals in *Mary, Queen of the High Street* (2013), and Mrs Moneypenny, whose matronly persona delivered household financial advice on *Superscrimpers*.[7](https://repository.lincoln.ac.uk/articles/chapter/From_homebuyer_advisor_to_angel_of_the_hearth_the_development_of_Kirstie_Allsopp_as_the_female_face_of_Channel_4_squeezed_middle_austerity_programming/24358603)
## References
1. [Kirstie Allsopp: 'I don't do things I don't want to succeed in', The Telegraph (2013)](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10333484/Kirstie-Allsopp-I-dont-do-things-I-dont-want-to-succeed-in.html)
2. [Kirstie Allsopp – Property and Crafts Presenter, Gordon Poole Agency](https://www.gordonpoole.com/talent/kirstie-allsopp/)
3. [Kirstie Allsopp, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1282349/)
4. [Kirstie Allsopp: 'There's nothing traditional about my life', Irish Independent (2018)](https://www.independent.ie/life/food-drink/kirstie-allsopp-theres-nothing-traditional-about-my-life/36128117.html)
5. [Kirstie Allsopp topic page, The Guardian](http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/kirstie-allsopp)
6. [Kirstie Allsopp: My Family Values, The Guardian (2010)](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/oct/30/kirstie-allsopp-my-family-values)
7. [From homebuyer advisor to angel of the hearth, University of Lincoln repository](https://repository.lincoln.ac.uk/articles/chapter/From_homebuyer_advisor_to_angel_of_the_hearth_the_development_of_Kirstie_Allsopp_as_the_female_face_of_Channel_4_squeezed_middle_austerity_programming/24358603)
8. [Kirstie Allsopp Interview, Channel 4 Press](https://www.channel4.com/press/news/kirstie-allsopp-interview)
9. [Phil Spencer returns to filming Location, Location, Location, RTÉ Entertainment](https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/kirstie-allsopp/)
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