John Amabile
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John Amabile is a Scottish
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
interior design
Interior design
Interior design describes a group of various yet related projects that involve turning an interior space into an effective setting for the range of human activities are to take place there. An interior designer is someone who conducts such projects...
, who has worked on TV makeover shows.
Born in 1964, Amabile grew up in the Ralston
Ralston
Ralston is a small, suburban settlement in Renfrewshire, Scotland, bordering onto the eastern edge of the town of Paisley...
district of Paisley
Paisley
Paisley is the largest town in the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland and serves as the administrative centre for the Renfrewshire council area...
, Renfrewshire
Renfrewshire
Renfrewshire is one of 32 council areas used for local government in Scotland. Located in the west central Lowlands, it is one of three council areas contained within the boundaries of the historic county of Renfrewshire, the others being Inverclyde to the west and East Renfrewshire to the east...
. After gaining a degree in Interior Design he moved to London
London
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, England
England
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, worked in set design for television and progressed onto appearing in many ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
design shows, as occasional chat show guest. He appeared on the ITV show Better Homes with Carol Vorderman
Carol Vorderman
Carol Jean Vorderman MBE is a British media personality, best known for co-hosting the popular game show Countdown for 26 years from 1982 to 2008. In September 2011 she became a co-anchor of the ITV1 panel show Loose Women....
several times and offered design advice on the morning show, GMTV
GMTV
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. He now appears in the ITV afternoon show, 60 Minute Makeover
60 Minute Makeover
60 Minute Makeover is a British popular daytime home interior design television programme broadcast on ITV in the United Kingdom.-Overview:...
. In 2002 the The Scotsman
The Scotsman
The Scotsman is a British newspaper, published in Edinburgh.As of August 2011 it had an audited circulation of 38,423, down from about 100,000 in the 1980s....
voted him the 10th most eligible bachelor in Scotland.
John's voice can also be heard on the UK rapper Sway DaSafo's 2010 Delivery Mixtape on the track The Watcher (Freestyle)In a home shopping style segment where he is selling automatic weaponry.
Amabile joined STV's tea-time lifestyle show The Hour as their interior design expert. John also guest presented the programme for a week alongside main host Michelle McManus
Michelle McManus
Michelle McManus is a Scottish singer-songwriter, actress, radio DJ and television presenter, who rose to fame after winning the second series of the UK talent show Pop Idol....
.