Gay Search | |
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Born | Mary Gay Search 1 May 1945 Hammersmith, London, England |
Occupations |
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Television | Gardeners' World Front Gardens |
Spouse |
Anthony Laryea (m. 1977) |
Children | 2 |
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.
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]
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]
Search married Anthony Laryea in 1977, and they have two sons.[4][1]