- Amanda Brunker
Amanda Brunker (born 1973 in
Dublin , Ireland) is a formerMiss Ireland winner and currentjournalist /columnist for the Irish "Sunday World " newspaper. [sundayworld.com [http://www.sundayworld.com/showbiz/brunker-meets.php Brunker meets...] ] . After attendingMount Temple Comprehensive School she turned to modelling, entering and winning the Miss Ireland competition in 1991 when she was 17 years old. [irishexaminer.com [http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/1999/08/30/opinion_222.htm Where are they now?] ] She went on to represent her home nation in theMiss World Competition inNigeria that same year without success. [Everything2.com [http://everything2.com/title/Miss%2520World List of former Miss Worlds winners] ]Career
She has continued modelling, acted in the film "
Head Rush " [IMDb. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0339111/ Internet movie database] ] , had a cameo role on the former Irish soap "Glenroe ", been a nightclub hostess and presented her own late night TV show "The Dinner Party" [rte.ie [http://www.rte.ie/arts/2004/0728/thedinnerparty.html Amanda Brunker to front new RTE show] ] .She lives in Dublin with her partner, Philip O'Loughlin, and their two sons. She published her first novel, entitled "Champagne Kisses" [Transworld. [http://www.booksattransworld.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=twmain.txt&eqisbndata=1848270011 Champagne Kisses] ] , on June 25 2008. In late May 2008 she appeared on the Irish chat show,
The Late Late Show to promote the then forthcoming novel. During the interview she confirmed a story that had appeared the previous February in theIrish Independent , and on its linked website, which stated that she and her partner had become engaged to be married during a holiday in New York. [independent.ie [http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/news-gossip/amanda-brunker-1280070.html Former party girl Amanda Brunker gets serious with Julia Molony] ]References
External links
* Amanda's [http://www.sundayworld.com/columnists.asp?colID=24 column] in the
Sunday World .
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