Age (at start of series): 29

Home: Notting Hill

Occupation: Owns Tina Sparkle - designing and selling cashmere pashminas

Interesting facts: Tina moved to Notting Hill from her parents’ house in the country to begin a new chapter in her life. She’s on the search for her soulmate after splitting from her boyfriend. Her degree and interest in indigenous religions led Tina to work in documentary film and she spent a year in New Mexico, where she filmed and lived amongst the Navajo Indians. Tina was in India making a documentary when she had the idea of starting a business to make bespoke shawls. Sienna Miller, Nicole Richie, Jennifer Aniston and Katie Holmes are all fans of her shawls, which are stocked in the US, Sweden, Singapore and France, as well as on Ledbury Road. Tina can often be spotted driving around Notting Hill in a distinctive set of wheels, a black cab.