Sarah Lucinda Beeny was born in 1972 in Reading, Berkshire, to Richard, an architect for Bovis Homes[1][5] and Ann.
The family lived in two converted brick cottages in a nine-acre plot on the edge of the Duke of Wellington's estate at Stratfield Saye in Hampshire,[6] in a style that Beeny describes as "a bit like The Good Life.
"[1] After her mother died aged 39 of breast cancer when Beeny was 10,[1][7] she was educated as a weekly boarder at the all-girls Luckley-Oakfield School in Wokingham.
Although her friends went to university, Beeny did not; she was encouraged to study drama by her English teacher and took a leading role in Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle.
[1][7] She returned to the UK to take a series of jobs, including: working for Save the Children; window-cleaning; door-to-door vacuum cleaner-selling and running her own sandwich-making business.
[7] After meeting the sister-in-law of Sarah Delafield-Cook, a talent hunter at Talkback Thames,[5][9] at a hen party, Beeny was asked to undertake a screen test to front a new television series about property development.
[15] In 2012, Beeny presented Double Your House for Half the Money, a series that showed viewers how they could potentially have the home they have always dreamed about, even if they could not afford to buy it.
The series has included guests such as Jo Wood, Tim Lovejoy, Lynn Bowles and Pearl Lowe.
[25] The series sees Beeny "follow city dwellers as they up sticks and move to the country in pursuit of a slower pace of life".
Billy (keyboards), Charlie (lead vocals), Rafferty (guitar), Laurie (drums) and Graham (bass).
[37] In 2014, Beeny was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in the September 2014 referendum on that issue – which it did.
In March 2017, she said: " Brain tumours remain a forgotten form of cancer, receiving scant attention from potential funders.