Andy Kane (born 25 October 1965 in South London), nicknamed " Handy Andy", is an English television personality best known for his work on the BBC's DIY programme Changing Rooms.
Background
Kane found fame on
Changing Rooms, which ran on
BBC Television from 1996–2004 and was hosted by
Carol Smillie and later Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen, in which he appears as a talkative cockney builder who helps out with home improvement jobs the contestants could not handle. He later made three appearances on the U.S. version of the programme,
Trading Spaces. He has presented three programmes for
UKTV Style –
Room Rivals,
Garden Rivals and
Streetcombers – the first two of which were broadcast in the United States on the
BBC America cable network. He has also appeared in the LIVINGtv reality show
I'm Famous and Frightened!, the
Sky One show
Cirque de Celebrité, as well as making a guest appearance on a sketch on
The Adam and Joe Show.
He presented the 2006 home makeover programme Increase Your House Price by Ten Grand, which was broadcast on BBC America. In 2008 he presented BBC Schools Geography programmes.
See also
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Ty Pennington, equivalent on Trading Spaces, the US derivative of Changing Rooms
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