Gay Search
Born
Mary Gay Search

(1945-05-01) 1 May 1945
Hammersmith, London, England
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] 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

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

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

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

Bibliography

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

References

  1. 1 2 3 "My first home: Gay Search". 9 June 2001. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
  2. ↑ "Mary Gay Search". FreeBMD. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
  3. 1 2 Dowd, Vincent (11 November 2014). "The spies in a suburban bungalow". BBC. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 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.
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