Career
After training at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, Sawalha began her career in theatre. In 1997 she started her role in EastEnders, as businesswoman Annie Palmer. She remained in the role until 1999. Her other acting television credits include Casualty, Which Way to the War and ITV police drama, The Bill. She has also appeared in the films Clockwise, Top Tips, Sleeping with the Fishes and the BBC Victorian drama Station Jim.
Sawalha has become a regular personality on daytime TV, after presenting the live programmes Loose Women and Live Talk 1999-2002. For the BBC, she has fronted four series of Passport to the Sun, the Total series, TV Mail, Heir Hunters, Perfect Partner and Family Exchange. She is also a co-host on the live documentary City Hospital. She has previously hosted the morning BBC One show Living in the Sun, about British ex-pats living in Spain, made by Ricochet, and Wanted Down Under, which shows families who want to make the move Down Under (Australia, occasionally New Zealand) what it would be like to live and work in those Antipodean nations. She can also be seen on Accidents Can Happen, a daytime BBC One programme produced by Twofour, which follows families as they try to rebuild their homes and their lives following disaster.
She presented the BBC One programme Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre in 2005, following learner drivers as they learnt to drive & took their driving tests with varying degrees of success. Sawalha was one of the learner drivers, who ended up passing her driving test at the end of the second series. Sawalha co-presented The One Show with Adrian Chiles. This 'Nationwide' style show launched on BBC One in the summer of 2006 and features a mix of interviews, factual features and topical stories. On 14 March 2007, it was confirmed on Digital Say Broadcast and The Sun that Nadia would not return to co-present The One Show when it returned in the summer of 2007, because she was pregnant.
In 2008, she returned to BBC One, to once again present its daytime programme, Wanted Down Under. Sawalha stars in the BBC One programme Eating In The Sun, which is produced by husband Mark Adderley. This follows on from her win in the Celebrity MasterChef series and has her challenged by celebrity chefs to cook in their favourite holiday restaurants. In July 2011 she guest presented the ITV Breakfast programme Lorraine and has since made regular appearances. In April 2012 she begun co-presenting Saturday Cookbook for ITV Breakfast.
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