Education
University of Nottingham. University of Brighton.
University of Nottingham. University of Brighton.
She was the runner-up on the first United Kingdom series of reality television show The Apprentice in 2005. Since then Khan has co-presented The Martin Lewis Money Show (2012–present) and in 2015, she presented a new Independent Television daytime show called Guess This House. She is now panellist on Loose Women.
Khan has since become a regular face on British television In 2006, she presented Temper Your Temper, a programme dealing with anger management.
She has presented several documentaries for the British Broadcasting Corporation including "Saira Khan"s Pakistan Adventure" in 2007 and "Adopting Abroad, Saira"s Story" in 2011, as well as appearing as a guest on a variety of British Broadcasting Corporation and Independent Television shows such as Ready Steady Cook and Countdown. She presented the CBBC show Trade Your Way to the United States of America and previously presented Beat the Boss.
She presented an edition of the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Money Programme about entrepreneurial mothers. Khan has also contributed to radio notably to Radio 4"s Woman"s Hour and Radio 2"s The Jeremy Vine Show as well as Radio 4"s Any Questions? In 2006, Khan set up a new campaign called OUR Soccer Association for Youth to campaign for local and national referenda on issues of major public interest.
Khan also runs her own baby-products business called Miamoo.
She has also written a self-help book, P.U.S.H. Foreign Success. Since 2012, she has co-hosted The Martin Lewis Money Show alongside Martin Lewis. In 2015, she began hosting Guess This House, a new daytime game show for Independent Television. The first series aired for 25x60 episodes.
In 2015, she became an occasional panellist on Loose Women, appearing on alternate Mondays.
In 2015, she appeared on Pointless. In 1965 Saira"s parents emigrated from the city of Rawalakot in Pakistan to the United Kingdom.
My issue with religion is the way it"s practised by the majority of people. I don"t like how it can create a divide and lead to hatred - that"s not what religion is about.
Saira went to Brighton Polytechnic and then on to the University of Nottingham, where she gained an Master of Arts in Environmental Planning in 2003.
She became a Town Planner after graduating and worked for a small private consultancy called Michael Parker Associates based in Lewes in East Sussex. Her father died from a heart attack in 1998 while visiting relatives in Kashmir – "I was absolutely devastated. Foreign the first time I felt really alone."
In January 2013 and 2015, Khan was nominated for the Services to Media award at the British Muslim Awards.