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What Not To Wear, Trinny & Susannah Undress..., Trinny & Susannah Undress the Nation

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Trinny Woodall (born Sarah-Jane Woodall 8 February 1964 in Marylebone, London) is an English fashion advisor and designer, television presenter and author. She was raised in a wealthy family and was privately educated. After ten years working in marketing - and battling alcoholism - Woodall met Susannah Constantine in 1994, whom she joined to write a weekly fashion column for The Daily Telegraph. This led to the launch of their own internet fashion-advice business and the release of their first fashion-advice book, both of which ventures ended in failure.

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Trinny Woodall (born Sarah-Jane Woodall 8 February 1964 in Marylebone, London) is a English fashion advisor and designer, television presenter and author. Woodall was raised in a wealthy family, and was privately educated. After ten years battling alcoholism and working in marketing, Woodall met Susannah Constantine in 1994, with whom she joined to write a weekly fashion column for The Daily Telegraph. This led the launch of their own internet fashion-advice business and release of their first fashion-advice book, both of which ended in disaster. They were then both commissioned to the BBC to host What Not to Wear in 2001. The following year Woodall and Constantine released their second book, What Not to Wear, which gained them a British Book Award and sold in excess of 670,000 copies. Woodall proceeded to co-author many fashion advice books with Constantine, with several becoming bestsellers in the United Kingdom and the United States, and having now sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide. After co-hosting What Not to Wear for five series and appearing on The Oprah Winfrey Show as style advisors and makeover experts, Woodall and Constantine moved to ITV to host Trinny & Susannah Undress... in 2006, and Undress the Nation. After becoming the faces of Littlewoods Direct, they released their own Littlewoods clothing range and latest fashion advice book, The Body Shape Bible, in 2007. Woodall is the youngest of six children, three of whom are from her father`s first marriage. Woodall`s father made his fortune as a successful banker in the city, and her brother is Mark Woodall, co-founder of Climate Change Capital which is a merchant banking institution specialising in green energy resources. Woodall`s maternal grandfather was Sir John Duncanson, controller of the British steel industry in the last two years of the war, who went on to become managing director of the British Iron and Steel Federation (BISF) in August 1945 and then managing director of Lithgows in 1949. When Woodall was five years old, she was sent home from school after cutting off another pupil`s plait. A family friend, Ronald Searle, who created the St. Trinian cartoons that inspired the later films, likened her ro a mischievous St. Trinian girl, and the name Trinny stuck from then onwards. Woodall was educated at boarding schools from the age of six, which included Queen`s Gate School in Queen`s Gate, South Kensington, London. She also attended Boston School for Girls. She has described one of the boarding schools as "cruel" and "sadistic". She has connected a fear of being naked with the time she was made to stand totally unclothed in front of the other pupils as a punishment for having a water fight. Woodall also attended boarding schools in France and Germany between the ages of twelve and fifteen. During her school years, she felt overshadowed by her older sister who was the "star of the school", which prompted pupils to use Woodall to get to her sister. Woodall started working in the financial and marketing sectors before becoming deeply involved in fashion, but was never certain about what occupation she wished to pursue. Her uncertainty prompted her to change job every two years. Some of her early jobs included taking coats at a restaurant, working as a secretary for a commodities company, aged eighteen, doing PR and using her contacts to promote her employer`s restaurant, and working for Anoushka Hempel. In her marketing career, she did work for clients including Henry Dent-Brocklehurst, the owner of Sudeley Castle. She was discontented during her time working in marketing, commenting: "I wasn`t doing what I felt I should be doing, but what other people felt I should do. If you live your life like that you are never very happy." Despite working in marketing, Woodall`s love for fashion was not suppressed. She would regularly customize from the high street, and took to making her own fashion accessories, which she sold to Harvey Nichols and Harrods. Early Career Woodall and Susannah Constantine first met at a dinner party hosed by David Viscount Linley, but initially did not get along well. Woodall originally thought of Constantine as a stuck-up English aristocrat, and Constantine in turn perceived Woodall as `Eurotrash`. Woodall commented that they were "like dogs sniffing round each other." Despite their initial difference, they collaboated in 1994 on Ready to Wear, a weekly style guide for the Daily Telegraph which ran for seven years. The style guide highlighted affordable high-street fashion, with the pair using themselves to demonstrate clothing which suited different figures. Woodall took on the role of the stylist and the business mind. Woodall and Constantine later become co-founders of Ready2shop.com, a dot-com fashion advice business which ceased trading due to lack of funds in November 2000. The business dissolved in July 2001 and lost investors a reputed £10 million. Thei

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Susannah Constantine, Elizabeth Hurley

Ready 2 Dress: How to Have Style Without Following the Fashion [2000] (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), What Not to Wear [2002] (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), What Not to Wear: The Rules [2004] (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), What Not to Wear: For the Every Occasion [2004] (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), What You Wear Cannot Change Your Life [2004] (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), What Your Clothes Say About You [2005] (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), Trinny and Susannah: The Survival Guide [2006] (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), Trinny and Susannah Take America: What Your Clothes Say About You [2006] (HarperCollins Publishers), The Body Shape Bible [2007] (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

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