Gay Search Explained
| Gay Search |
| Birth Name: | Mary Gay Search |
| Birth Date: | 1945 5, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Hammersmith, London, England |
| Television: | Gardeners' World
Front Gardens |
| Spouse: | [1] |
| Children: | 2 |
Mary Gay Laryea ( Search; born 1 May 1945)[1] is an English television presenter and journalist. She worked on the BBC television series Gardeners' World with Geoff Hamilton, and on the series Front Gardens.
Early life
Mary Gay Search was born on 1 May 1945 in Hammersmith, London to Ruth (née Tapsell) and Wilfred Search.[2] [3] As a teenager, Search was a bystander in the capture of the Portland spy ring; her parents' house was used to surveil Peter and Helen Kroger, two members of the ring.[3]
Career
Search started her horticultural career writing the garden column for Woman magazine, with help from Alan Titchmarsh, who prevented her from writing "daft" things.[4] She devised and hosted gardening shows for BBC2 from 1988.[5] She worked as gardening editor for Sainsbury magazine for 13 years as well as the Radio Times.
Search is also patron of the British Thyroid Foundation.[6]
Personal life
Search married Anthony Laryea in 1977, and they have two sons.[1]
Bibliography
- Front Gardens
- Gardening from Scratch
- Gardening without a garden
- Delia's Kitchen Garden, written with Delia Smith.
- Perfect Plants for Problem Places
Notes and References
- Web site: My first home: Gay Search . 9 July 2023 . 9 June 2001.
- Web site: Mary Gay Search . FreeBMD . 9 July 2023.
- Web site: The spies in a suburban bungalow. BBC. Vincent. Dowd. 11 November 2014. 12 November 2014.
- Book: Search, Gay. BBC Gardeners'World Through the Years. Carlton Books Limited. 2003. 1-84442-416-2. London. 152.
- Web site: Literary agents for novelists, travel writers, scientists, biographers, historians, television presenters, children's writers and literary illustrators - Gay Search . 2009-05-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081210101601/http://www.greeneheaton.co.uk/pages/authors/author.asp?AuthorID=8 . 2008-12-10 . dead .
- Web site: British Thyroid Foundation Patrons. British Thyroid Foundation. 20 December 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121105180917/http://www.btf-thyroid.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=42&Itemid=87. 5 November 2012. dead.
