{{Short description|Irish television presenter and former model}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox model | name= Pamela Flood | image= | imagesize= | caption= | birth_name= Pamela Ann Mary Flood | birth_place=[[Tallaght, Dublin]], Ireland | birth_date= {{birth date and age|df=y|1971|7|25}} | haircolour=Blonde | eyecolour=Green | ethnicity= | measurements= | height={{height|m=1.78|precision=0}} | website= }}
'''Pamela Ann Mary Flood''' (born 25 July 1971) is an Irish former TV host, former model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned [[Miss Ireland]] 1993.
A former employee of [[RTÉ]], she was at one time a well-recognised face on the broadcaster's television channels, having presented ''[[Off the Rails (TV series)|Off the Rails]]'', ''Marry Me'' and ''[[The Podge and Rodge Show]]''. She also made an appearance in the [[genealogy]] series ''[[Who Do You Think You Are? (Irish TV series)|Who Do You Think You Are?]]'', learning that her grandmother was an illegitimate child and that a deceased distant relative was accused of murdering her husband, but later found not guilty - over 160 years ago. She then went on to feature on ''Celebrity Showhouse'' broadcast on 29 December 2008.
==Career== Flood worked as a continuity officer with national broadcaster RTÉ from 1997 to 2000, and was a presenter of Irish fashion television show ''Off the Rails'' for a number of years before receiving the axe in 2008.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/the-matriarchs-of-montrose-1510015.html|title=The matriarchs of Montrose|date=25 October 2008|accessdate=2 November 2008|last=Daly|first=Susan|work=Irish Independent}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/style/fashion/a-stylish-match-26476581.html|title=A stylish match|date=13 September 2008|accessdate=9 September 2021|work=Irish Independent}}</ref>
Flood moved on to ''Marry Me'', of which there were eight editions,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/tv/marryme/index.html|title=Marry Me|publisher=RTÉ|access-date=2 November 2008|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928000156/https://www.rte.ie/tv/marryme/index.html|archivedate=28 September 2008}}</ref> and has presented two editions of ''The Podge and Rodge Show'',<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/the-bourne-supremacy-26487165.html|title=The Bourne Supremacy|date=25 October 2008|accessdate=2 November 2008|last=Whitington|first=Paul|work=Irish Independent}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/business/budget/analysis-overview/return-of-the-hairshirt-26484772.html|title=Return of the hairshirt|date=15 October 2008|accessdate=9 September 2021|last=O'Brien|first=Jason|work=Irish Independent}}</ref> For her research in the RTÉ series ''Who Do You Think You Are?'' she travelled through 19th-century Dublin, "taking in red light districts, millionaire solicitors, pawnbrokers, contested wills, illegitimate children and murder." She met historian David Nolan, who has written a history of Corballis House, where her granny was sent to stay and subsequently discovered she was born out of wedlock.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/16-blocks-1496279.html|title=16 Blocks|date=11 October 2008|accessdate=2 November 2008|last=Whitington|first=Paul|work=Irish Independent}}</ref> She appeared on the front cover of the ''[[RTÉ Guide]]'' to promote the show,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/woman/celeb-news/rte-should-prepare-to-stretch-the-boundaries-26476698.html|title=RTÉ should prepare to stretch the boundaries|date=14 September 2008|accessdate=9 September 2021|last=O'Kelly|first=Emer|work=Sunday Independent}}</ref> and on ''[[Anonymous (TV series)|Anonymous]]'' as "Doreen Prendergast".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/tv/anonymous/2007_ep04.html|title=Anonymous {{!}} Episode 4|publisher=RTÉ|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080308230931/https://www.rte.ie/tv/anonymous/2007_ep04.html|archivedate=8 March 2008}}</ref>
Flood has since found herself exposed and vulnerable at RTÉ.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/independent-woman/female-tv-presenters-there-is-only-one-queen-bee-2907667.html|title=Female TV Presenters: There is only one Queen Bee|date=16 October 2011|accessdate=16 October 2011|last=Murphy|first=Catherine|work=Sunday Independent}}</ref>
==Personal life== In 2008, Flood announced the recent end of her three-year relationship with Michael Sharp, the manager of Denis Desmond's ''Spirit'' nightclub in Dublin.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rteguide.ie/2008/0322/staroftheday.html |title=Star of the Day |date=22 March 2008 |accessdate=2 November 2008 |work=[[RTÉ Guide]] |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081024125040/http://www.rteguide.ie/2008/0322/staroftheday.html |archivedate=24 October 2008 }}</ref> She then began a new one with restaurateur, Ronan Ryan.
Flood and Ryan appeared in the news in 2019 following a public battle with their mortgage provider over a house in which the couple had been living in [[Clontarf, Dublin|Clontarf]], Dublin. It was reported that the couple had been living in the property valued at €900,000 yet had not made a mortgage payment in over 9 years. Nevertheless, the couple refused to vacate the property.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/why-we-will-not-move-out-exmiss-ireland-pamela-flood-and-restaurateur-ronan-ryan-vow-to-stay-in-900k-home-38308394.html|title=Why we will not move out: Ex-Miss Ireland Pamela Flood and restaurateur Ronan Ryan vow to stay in €900k home|newspaper=[[Irish Independent]]|date=13 July 2019|first1=Amy|last1=Molloy|first2=Ray|last2=Managh|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190713100954/https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/why-we-will-not-move-out-exmiss-ireland-pamela-flood-and-restaurateur-ronan-ryan-vow-to-stay-in-900k-home-38308394.html|archivedate=13 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/around-town/has-pamela-found-true-love-1429645.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120802022714/http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/around-town/has-pamela-found-true-love-1429645.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 August 2012 |title=Has Pamela found true love? |date=8 July 2008 |accessdate=2 November 2008 |last=Editor |first=Showbiz |work=Evening Herald }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.waterford-today.ie/waterford-today-news/680-producers-looking-for-waterford-people-to-propose-in-new-rte-programme-680.html|title=Producers Looking for Waterford People to Propose in new RTÉ Programme|date=7 November 2007|accessdate=2 November 2008|work=Waterford Today|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120420215757/http://www.waterford-today.ie/waterford-today-news/680-producers-looking-for-waterford-people-to-propose-in-new-rte-programme-680.html|archivedate=20 April 2012}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0282566}}
{{Miss World 1993 delegate}} {{Miss Universe 1994 delegates}}
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