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Ruth Langsford
Ruth Wendy Holmes (née; Langsford; born 17 March 1960) is an English television presenter. She has presented various television shows, including '' This Morning'' (1999–present) in which she is the longest serving presenter, '' Gift Wrapped'' (2014), ''How the Other Half Lives'' (2015–present), and ''Ruth Langsford’s Fashion Edit'' (2017–present). Since 1999, Langsford has been a regular panellist on the ITV talk show ''Loose Women'', becoming a presenter in 2013. In 2017, she took part in the fifteenth series of ''Strictly Come Dancing'', in which she finished in ninth place. Early life Ruth Langsford was born in Singapore, to Dennis and Joan Langsford. She lived in five countries before the age of ten, including West Germany and four countries in North Africa. Langsford attended Saltash School in Cornwall from 1977 to 1978. Career Television Langsford began her career as a continuity announcer and newscaster with ITV regional station Television South West (TSW) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south, the South China Sea to the east, and the Straits of Johor to the north. The country's territory is composed of one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet; the combined area of these has increased by 25% since the country's independence as a result of extensive land reclamation projects. It has the third highest population density in the world. With a multicultural population and recognising the need to respect cultural identities of the major ethnic groups within the nation, Singapore has four official languages: English, Malay, Mandarin, and Tamil. English is the lingua franca and numerous public services are available only in Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newscaster
A news presenter – also known as a newsreader, newscaster (short for "news broadcaster"), anchorman or anchorwoman, news anchor or simply an anchor – is a person who presents news during a news program on TV, radio or the Internet. They may also be a working journalist, assisting in the collection of news material and may, in addition, provide commentary during the program. News presenters most often work from a television studio or radio studio, but may also present the news from remote locations in the field related to a particular major news event. History The role of the news presenter developed over time. Classically, the presenter would read the news from news "copy" which they may or may not have helped write with a news writer. This was often taken almost directly from wire services and then rewritten. Prior to the television era, radio-news broadcasts often mixed news with opinion and each presenter strove for a distinctive style. These presenters were re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Born To Shine
''Born to Shine'' is an ITV entertainment programme which featured celebrities who learn a new skill taught to them by talented teenagers, live on Sunday evenings. The show was presented by Natasha Kaplinsky and won by Jason Manford. Format Teenagers teach celebrities a new talent to perform on the ''Born to Shine'' stage. Every week three celebrities perform, in an attempt to make it through to the final. Denise van Outen and Jason Gardiner give their opinions to the celebrities before the lines open for the public to vote for their favourite. All of the money raised goes to Save the Children, of which Kaplinsky is an ambassador. Episodes International versions The TV format was exported in Italy with the title ''Altrimenti ci arrabbiamo'' when it was aired on Rai 1 and hosted by Milly Carlucci Camilla Patrizia "Milly" Carlucci (born 1 October 1954) is an Italian television presenter, actress and singer. Carlucci played the role of Urania in the 1985 film ''The Adventure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kitchen Burnout
''Kitchen Burnout'' is a British cookery reality show airing on ITV, and was created by ITV Studios, which features prospective chefs competing with each other for a final prize. The series aired in April 2010, presented by Marco Pierre White Marco Pierre White (born 11 December 1961) is a British chef, restaurateur, and television personality. He has been dubbed "the first celebrity chef" and the ''enfant terrible'' of the UK restaurant scene. In January 1995, aged 33, White became .... The programme did not return for a second series due to poor ratings. Celebrities The celebrities taking part are: : Automatic Qualification : Saved By Marco : Eliminated References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Kitchen Burnout 2010 British television series debuts 2010 British television series endings British reality television series Food reality television series ITV (TV network) original programming Television series by ITV Studios ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GMTV With Lorraine
The following details are for the programmes that GMTV (Good Morning Television) broadcast on ITV. GMTV is the former breakfast television franchise for the UK's ITV network. It began broadcasting on Friday 1 January 1993 and finished on Friday 3 September 2010, being replaced by ITV Breakfast. ''GMTV'' 1993–2000 ''GMTV'' is the original brand for GMTV's weekday breakfast magazine programme from 6:00 am. It included national and international news stories, regional news, weather, interviews, cookery and health features, human-interest and showbiz stories, and competitions. In spring 1993, shortly after the channel's launch, a separate news-focused programme was introduced between 6:00am and 7:00 am, which in early 1994 became ''The Reuters News Hour''. The main 6:00–9:00 am programme remained named ''GMTV'' but, as part of the show's new look for the millennium, this main programme later became ''GMTV Today''. On 3 January 2000, ''GMTV'' relaunched and change ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Travel Shop
TV Travel Shop was a British television channel that sold holidays. It launched in April 1998, primarily on satellite and cable, broadcasting between 6am and 5pm, sharing space with Challenge. In 1999, the channel began broadcasting 24 hours a day. In 2000, the channel launched on ONdigital, using capacity from ONrequest 2 (later ITV Select 2), and broadcast 6am-12pm weekdays, and 6am-10am weekends, free to air on channel 44. Its hours were extended in January 2002 to be broadcast from 6am-6pm daily. However, after the demise of ITV Digital, TV Travel Shop made a deal with the multiplex operator, SDN, to carry the channel 24 hours a day using the newly freed up capacity. It moved to channel 17 at the launch of Freeview. However, by December 2003, Top Up TV were looking to buy slots for their new subscription platform, and acquired the slot and LCN occupied by TV Travel Shop. The channel went off air on 16 April 2004, and its stream was replaced in April 2004 by a Top Up TV su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillip Schofield
Phillip Bryan Schofield (born 1 April 1962) is an English television presenter who works for ITV. He is currently the co-presenter of ITV's '' This Morning'' (2002–present) and ''Dancing on Ice'' (2006–2014, 2018–present) alongside Holly Willoughby. Schofield gained national attention working for the BBC, first as a continuity presenter for Children's BBC on weekdays from 1985 to 1987. His other television work includes ''Going Live!'' (1987–1993), ''All Star Mr & Mrs'' (2008–2016), '' The Cube'' (2009–2015, 2020–present), ''Text Santa'' (2011–2015), and ''5 Gold Rings'' (2017–2020). Early life Schofield was born on 1 April 1962 in Oldham, Lancashire. He grew up in Newquay, Cornwall, where he attended Trenance Infant School and Newquay Tretherras School. When he was 15, his first foray into media was a Sunday show on Hospital Radio Plymouth. After many years of writing letters to the BBC, at 17, Schofield took up the position of bookings clerk and tea boy fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaye Adams
Kaye Adams (born 28 December 1962) is a Scottish television presenter and journalist. She was an anchor on ITV topical discussion show ''Loose Women'' from 1999 to 2006 and again from 2013 and was a regular panellist on Channel 5's daily morning show ''The Wright Stuff'' from 2007 until 2012. She hosts the morning show on BBC Radio Scotland weekdays from 9am to 12 noon. Early life Adams attended Abbotsgrange Middle school in Grangemouth and Grangemouth High before moving to the fee-paying St George's School, Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh, from which she graduated with an MA Honours in Economics and Politics. Media career Adams started her media career as a graduate trainee at Central Television, concentrating on political and news journalism – her first coup was a one-hour interview with Margaret Thatcher. For the next few years, Adams remained focused on hard news when in early 1988 moved to Scottish Television's nightly news programme, ''Scotland Today''. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Bleakley
Christine Louise Lampard (''née'' Bleakley, born 2 February 1979) is a Northern Irish broadcaster. She has presented various television programmes with Adrian Chiles, such as ''The One Show'' (2007–2010) and '' Daybreak'' (2010–11), while with Phillip Schofield she has presented ''Dancing on Ice'' (2012–14) and '' This Morning'' (2013–16). Lampard has also presented factual series for ITV including '' Off The Beaten Track'' (2013) and '' Wild Ireland'' (2015). Since 2016 she has been a presenter of the ITV lunchtime chat show ''Loose Women''. Early life Christine Bleakley was born in Daisy Hill Hospital, Newry, and grew up in Newtownards. She has a younger sister, Nicola. She started her television career as a runner and then trained to become a floor manager while studying for her A-Levels at Bloomfield Collegiate School in Ballyhackamore, Belfast. She continued to work at BBC NI while studying for a politics degree at Queen's University, Belfast. However, she did not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlene White
Charlene Denise White (born 22 June 1980) is a British television broadcaster, journalist and presenter, best known for presenting ''ITV News'' programmes. She has been an anchor on ''Loose Women'' since 2021ITV News selects Nina Hossain as lead presenter of Lunchtime News Amy Wilson, Response Source, 30 May 2019 and appeared on the ITV reality show '' I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!'' in November 2022. Early life White was born in |
Jane Moore
Jane Moore (born 17 May 1962) is an English journalist, author and television presenter, best known as a columnist for '' The Sun'' newspaper and as a panellist and anchor on the ITV lunchtime chat show ''Loose Women'' between 1999 and 2002, returning as a regular panellist on 15 October 2013. Since 2018, Moore has been regularly relief anchoring the show. On 7th December 2022, Moore revealed she and her husband are separating while on-air on ''Loose Women''. Early life Moore was born in Oxford. Her father was a professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford, and her mother was a teacher. She went to primary school in Oxford, then went to the Worcester Grammar School for Girls on Spetchley Road in Worcester, when her parents divorced. Since the divorce, she has not heard from her father. At school, Moore always wanted to be a journalist, but was told by her teachers that 'it was no job for a lady'. She studied journalism at the South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Educat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Stirling (broadcaster)
Ian Stirling (28 October 1940 – 30 June 2005) was a British actor and television presenter, best known for his work with Westward Television and Television South West, TSW. Stirling, a stage actor originally from Fife, joined the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 1974. He also appeared on television in many acting roles, including parts in ''A Family at War'', ''Budgie (TV series), Budgie'', Pathfinders (TV series, one episode) and ''Crown Court (TV series), Crown Court''. Stirling freelanced at Westward Television, Westward before becoming a full-time staff announcer in 1975. Alongside announcing duties, he read regional news bulletins and presented the hugely popular children's birthdays spot alongside station mascot rabbit puppet Gus Honeybun. He continued as an announcer and presenter with Westward's successor, Television South West, TSW, when the station began its sole franchise period on 1 January 1982. He later took over from colleague Roger Shaw as the stati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
