Phil Spencer (television personality)
Phil Spencer | |
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| Born | 11 October 1969 |
| Occupation | TV Presenter/Businessman/Journalist |
| Notable credit(s) | Co-Presenter of Channel 4's Location, Location, Location
Co-presenter of Channel 4's Relocation, Relocation Columnist for The Sunday Times Chief executive of Garrington Home Finders |
| Spouse | Fiona Spencer |
| Children | Jake, Ben |
Phil Spencer (born 11 December 1969) is a British television presenter who appears with Kirstie Allsopp in a variety of home-buying programs on Channel 4 including Location, Location, Location and Relocation, Relocation.[1] Spencer also writes for several UK publications, including GQ, The Sunday Times and Lusso Magazine.[2]
Career
Spencer is the chief executive of Garrington Home Finders,[3] a property search agency he established in 1996 to help buyers with property search, negotiation and purchase process. It was his promotion of Garrington and the concept of using a buying agent to find a home that led Spencer to become the co-host of Location, Location, Location and Relocation, Relocation.[citation needed]
Criticism
Location, Location, Location has been fiercely criticised by many for ramping property prices, most recently by the BBC's Panorama (2 June, 2008) which identified the show as one of the property programmes that contributed to a property bubble.[citation needed] After an article in the Sunday Telegraph (13 April, 2008) where Spencer suggested that the falls in property prices at the beginning of 2008 should not be viewed as the cracking of a bubble and that property was still a good long term investment, Spencer was roundly criticised by readers, who called him a "confidence trickster".[4]
Personal life
Spencer grew up in Littlebourne, Kent and now lives in the Tonsleys area of Wandsworth. Spencer and his wife, Fiona, have two sons, Jake and Ben.
Spencer is a celebrity sponsor of the 2008 SOS Children's Villages UK's World Orphan Week.[5] and Broadway, a London homelessness charity.
References
- ^ Phil Spencer's biography on Channel4.com
- ^ Garrington - Garrington Home Finders - Press & Editorial
- ^ About page, Garrington Home Finders
- ^ "It's not just the housing market that's overheated", Sunday Telegraph, April 18, 2008
- ^ 'wear something WOW' for World Orphan Week