Lorraine Pascale Biography
Lorraine Pascale is a former top model, British television chef, and the host of the USA Food Network. She is best known for selling nearly one million books in the United Kingdom alone. She has shows on TV in over 70 countries. She had her own cooking show on the BBC for a few seasons.
Lorraine Pascale Age
Pascale is 49 years old as of November 2021. She was born on 17 November 1972 in London, United Kingdom.
Lorraine Pascale Height
Pascale stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches(1.78 m) tall.
Lorraine Pascale Parents – Family
Pascale was born to Caribbean parents in Hackney. She was adopted when she was 18 months old, and she was raised in Witney, Oxfordshire, by a white couple named Roger and Audrey Woodward, who already had a son named Jason. Her adoptive father was a multilingual Spanish academic who had taught at Oxford, and her mother was a nurse. She is aware of the identities of her biological parents, as well as the names of their four other children, but she does not wish to reconnect with them.
Lorraine Pascale Ex-Husband – Daughter
After marrying in her early twenties, Pascale gave birth to her daughter, actress Ella Balinska. Since then, the couple has divorced and separated. On June 26, 2021, she married businessman Dennis O’Brien at Chelsea Old Town Hall in London.
Lorraine Pascale Food Network – Career
Lorraine, in addition to being a mentor on Worst Bakers in America, is a judge on the Food Network’s Holiday Baking Championship and Spring Baking Championship. She served as a judge on two episodes of Bakers vs. Fakers’ first season before taking over as host for the second season. Pascale took over as host of the BBC television show Baking Made Easy in January 2011, and she later published a book based on the show. Home Cooking Made Easy, a second series with an accompanying book, aired later in the year in September and October. A Last-Minute Christmas special aired on BBC Two on December 22, 2011. In 2012, a third book was published, and a BBC Two television program called Fast,, Fresh & Easy Food was based on it and aired in August and September of that same year.
Along with Jason Atherton, Pascale co-hosted and judged the UK edition of My Kitchen Rules on Sky Living in the early months of 2014. It was announced in April of that year that Pascale would host a brand-new, six-part television series on BBC Two later in the year titled Lorraine Pascale: How to be a Better Cook. She and the Hairy Bikers co-hosted a BBC Two episode of The Nation’s Favorite Food in March 2015. Along with serving as a mentor on Worst Bakers in America, Lorraine also serves as a judge on the Food Network’s Holiday Baking Championship and Spring Baking Championship. In the first season of Bakers vs. Fakers, she served as a judge on two episodes before taking over as host for the second season.
Pascale was discovered as a potential model at the age of 16 by the same agent who discovered Naomi Campbell. She gained notoriety as the first black British model to appear on the American Elle cover and is based in New York. She was featured as one of the “Bond Girls” in Robbie Williams’ “Millennium” video and in the 1998 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. Pascale decided to try out several different careers, including hypnotherapy and auto repair, in order to secure her future after modeling. In 2005, she enrolled in a diploma cooking program at Leith’s School of Food and Wine and discovered that cooking was “like a pair of old jeans” for her.
After receiving her diploma, Pascale performed a number of “stages” in a few London restaurants, but she quickly realized that the restaurant’s hours would not work for her. She then became known as a specialized cakemaker and landed a job at Selfridges. Chef Marco Pierre White introduced her to Selfridges, and she supplied the London store with over 1000 Christmas cakes between 2008 and 2010. Pascale started her own cupcake business in Covent Garden. In March 2012, she graduated with honors from Thames Valley University (now University of West London), where she also studied culinary arts. Pascale claimed in 2015 that she unwinds with Transcendental Meditation after work.
Lorraine Pascale’s Net Worth
Pascale has an estimated net worth of $ 30 million.
Lorraine Pascale Cookbooks
- Baking Made Easy
- ”Home Cooking Made Easy
- ”Lorraine Pascale’s Fast, Fresh and Easy Food
- A Lighter Way To Bake
- How to Be a Better Cook
- Eating Well Made Easy
- Bake
- The Girlies’ Guide to Football