Interior designer on the Changing Rooms reality show for six years expanded into yoga, modeling and Celebrity shows.
She found the BBC's restrictions on endorsements too constrictive, and left the show in 2000.
She was on the reality shows I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, and the Celebrity edition of Come Dine With Me.
She married Chris Short, a TV executive. The couple had one daughter.
Anna Richardson was another interior designer on BBC's Changing Rooms.
