Lisa-Marie Long

Lisa-Marie Long is a British television presenter and actress best known for hosting poker formats for Sky Poker and Matchroom Sport for BskyB, Channel 5 and Sky Sports. She is also a regular poker player and played in the celebrity heat of the Partypoker.net women's world series. As an actress Lisa-Marie has appeared in numerous commercials and television shows and more recently as 'Ellie' in new British feature film The Hike.

Biography

She is 5'6" tall, born 26 July in Portsmouth, Hampshire, and is Eurasian being of both Thai (father) and UK (mother) descent. She studied English, print journalism and media law. After three years living and working in Australia she now lives in London.

Career

Her television career started at Bid TV in 2002 where her witty comebacks and bubbly personality caught the eye of bosses at Overseas Property TV where she was soon co-anchoring a weekly show when the channel took the air on 1 September 2006.

Lisa-Marie hosted showbiz news for industry endorsed channel Eat Cinema and fronted game shows The Great Big British Quiz in 2005 and The Big Deal in 2009 as well as Sky Vegas between 2005 and 2007.

Over the last five years she has hosted golf and poker programmes for Sky Sports including the Mackenzie Sir Bobby Robson celebrity golf classic in July 2008, the PGA Tour and the Partypoker.net World Series of Poker with commentator Jesse May.

She is now on the channel and tables of Sky Poker replacing Kara Scott and Michelle Orpe.

As the voice of Sky Showbiz News online in 2009 she narrated a Perez Hilton style audio blog and is also the face of Aviva online.

Personal life

Lisa-Marie is a trained chocolatier, a shiatsu and reiki practitioner and has done eight solo sky dives.

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