Tina Hobley

Tina and her brother grew up in the shop which their parents Harry Snr and Kathy ran. Her parents came from County Clare in Ireland.

She was a shy child and her mother sent her to speech and drama classes from the age of five. She adored her particularly strict teacher and stayed for fifteen years.

Tina trained the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art from 1990 and 1993.
She married graphic designer, Steve Wallington in 1998, in a ceremony at Ennis Cathedral in Ireland. They had a daughter Isabella in April 2000, but the couple are now divorced.

Tina is set to marry again this winter (2006). Her huband-to-be PR Director Oliver (Oli) Wheeler proposed at their Cotswold mansion in April 2006.