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Jill "Jilly" Priscilla Goolden (born 28 September 1949 in Surrey) is an English wine critic, journalist and television personality. ==Career== For 18 years Goolden co-presented the popular BBC2 ''Food and Drink'' television series in Britain, with Chris Kelly, Michael Barry and her good friend Oz Clarke (another oenophile). She is known for her outrageously abstract descriptions of wine tasting appreciation often referring to certain wines as reminiscent of pear drops, liquorice and even rubber. Goolden has presented two television series on antiques for BBC1, ''The Great Antiques Hunt'' and ''Going, Going, Gone'', and she has travelled extensively as a regular presenter on BBC1’s ''Holiday'' programme. During 2003, she was presenter on BBC1’s ''Holiday - You Call the Shots''. In 2004, the ''Radio Times'' included Goolden in a list of the top 40 most eccentric TV presenters of all time. In 2005, she appeared in a new Channel 4 series ''Extreme Celebrity Detox''. She has also starred in a mini-drama written and directed by Pauline Quirke and has performed in ''The Vagina Monologues'' at the Royal Albert Hall. In November, 2005, Goolden also appeared in ITV1's fifth series of ''I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!''. During her time in the jungle Goolden, along with fellow celebrity Carol Thatcher, was voted to do a bushtucker trial. This involved eating various insects and some local delicacies. During her Bushtucker trial in ''I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!'', Goolden tried to eat a kangaroo's penis as part of the task but failed to do so. In 2006 Goolden appeared on the television series ''Celebrity MasterChef''. Jilly has written books on wine and food and palmistry. Her books have also appeared in the ''Sunday Times'' best-seller list. She has co-written books which include five volumes of ''Food and Drink'', ''Entertaining with Food and Drink'' and ''The Big Food and Wine Drink Book''. As well as books on food and drink, Goolden co-authored ''Your Hand - An Illustrated Guide To Palmistry'' (ISBN 0-434-98141-9) in the early 1980s. In 2008, Jilly took part in a special of ''Wife Swap'' in the UK, swapping with Cynthia O'Neal, the wife of Alexander O'Neal. She has been a judge on the ITV programme ''Britain's Best Dish'' for both series since 2007. Jilly is also a Vice President of the charity, the Advance Centre for the Scotson Technique 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jilly Goolden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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