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Gay Search
Born
Mary Gay Search

(1945-05-01) 1 May 1945 (age 79)
Occupations
  • Television presenter
  • journalist
TelevisionGardeners' World
Front Gardens
Spouse
Anthony Laryea
(m. 1977)
[1]
Children2

Mary Gay Laryea (née Search; born 1 May 1945)[1][failed verification] 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

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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

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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.[4]

Search is also patron of the British Thyroid Foundation.[6]

Personal life

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Search married Anthony Laryea in 1977, and they have two sons.[4][1]

Bibliography

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  • Front Gardens
  • Gardening from Scratch
  • Gardening without a garden
  • Delia's Kitchen Garden, written with Delia Smith.
  • Perfect Plants for Problem Places

References

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  1. ^ a b c "My first home: Gay Search". 9 June 2001. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
  2. ^ "Mary Gay Search". FreeBMD. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
  3. ^ a b Dowd, Vincent (11 November 2014). "The spies in a suburban bungalow". BBC. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  4. ^ a b c Search, Gay (2003). BBC Gardeners'World Through the Years. London: Carlton Books Limited. p. 152. ISBN 1-84442-416-2.
  5. ^ "Literary agents for novelists, travel writers, scientists, biographers, historians, television presenters, children's writers and literary illustrators – Gay Search". Archived from the original on 10 December 2008. Retrieved 20 May 2009.
  6. ^ "British Thyroid Foundation Patrons". British Thyroid Foundation. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012. Retrieved 20 December 2012.