Nana was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in July 1971 (as Nana Akua Amotemaa-Appiah), after her parents came over from Ghana in the 1960s. She relocated to the US with her parents, aged 11, but would later return to the UK and study business and finance at university.
…Shop at Bid was a British television shopping channel based in the UK, that ran daily auction-style and later fixed-price demonstrations. It was the first channel of its kind in the world. The channel first launched as Bid-Up.tv.
The channel’s branding history: Bid-Up.TV (2000 – 2005); Bid TV (2005 – 2011); Bid (2011 – 2014); Shop at Bid (2014).