It wasn't long ago that Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix was known for her famous father, but the diver has become a star in her own right over the past 12 months.
Fred Sirieix, the much-loved maitre d' from Channel 4's First Dates , was in attendance when Andrea claimed double gold at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham earlier this year. Having repeated that feat at the European Championships in August and medalled at the World Championships in July, Spendolini-Sirieix is fast becoming a household name without any aid from her TV personality parent.
“It’s quite funny, I had an interaction with someone the other day," Spendolini-Sirieix, 18, recounted to the PA news agency. "I was with my mum, and (a man) just stopped and just pointed at me and went, ‘Well done! Well done’.
