Career
Celia Holman Lee started out as a model at the age of 15 while still at school after being approached while working as a shop assistant. She has been described by the Daily Mirror as having been "Ireland"s most successful model" and by the Daily Mail as having been Ireland"s "most sought after face in the seventies and eighties". She founded her own modelling agency, Celia Holman-Lee Model Agency, at the age of 22 and has run it for over 30 years, making it the longest running modelling agency in Ireland.
Celia Holman Lee made her first television appearance on The Late Late Show.
She makes regular appearances on TV3, as well as regularly doing the fashion slot on Ireland Department of Administration and Management. In 2007 she topped a list for Social and Personal as the most invited person to parties, taking over from the then Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern. She has two children, Cecile, who works in the office at the modelling agency, and Ivan, and became a grandmother in 2008.
