Name	Andrea Roche
Height
Naionality	Irish
Date of Birth
Place of Birth	Ireland
Famous for	Modeling

Andrea Roche is Ireland's best known model agent she represents all of Ireland's best known models, socialite and occasional television personality and a former model. She took part in the RTÉ One reality sports television series Celebrity Bainisteoir in 2009 and features on a weekly basis on the TV3 show Ireland AM. Despite retiring from full-time modelling in 2008, she is still regarded as "the most famous of the Irish Models" and has herself been credited with discovering models such as Roz Purcell,Clara McSweeney, Sarah Morrissey, Pippa O'Connor and Miss World 2003 Rosanna Davison.

Roche began her career as a model, "constantly in the papers, doing a lot of commercial work. As Miss Ireland, Andrea competed in the 1998 Miss Universe pageant (top 10 semi-finalists). Roche also has a post as beauty editor with VIP and is the fashion editor of South East Wedding magazine and appears weekly on TV3's Ireland AM as their fashion expert. Roche reduced her modelling to dedicate more time to the Miss Universe Ireland pageant. Roche met Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones at the MTV Europe Music Awards 1999 in Dublin. She has also knows Bono quite well and has witnessed U2's concerts on several occasions.

Roche took part in the second series of the RTE One reality sports television series Celebrity Bainisteoir in 2009. She was described as being "among the less likely contestants" to take part, even confessing in the first episode that she had very little knowledge of the Gaelic Athletic Association–"I barely know the format of a game". However, to learn more, she read Kean to Succeed, A Trip Into the World of GAA by Gerald Kean, the celebrity solicitor who participated in the first series. She expressed her dislike of wearing "mucky wellies" and having to do without cosmetics during training and got through it by shouting "Go on lads!" repeatedly. Roche managed Rockwell Rovers GAA from County Tipperary. Her team played in the second quarter-final of the series against St Michael's GAA of County Roscommon, who were managed by John Waters. Roche and Waters were seen training with GAA All Stars winners Tony McManus and Declan Browne.