Sue Baker (12 June 1947 – 14 November 2022) was a British journalist and television presenter.
Baker was one of the original presenters of the first iteration of BBC's ''
Top Gear
Top Gear may refer to:
* "Top gear", the highest gear available in a vehicle's manual transmission
Television
* ''Top Gear'' (1977 TV series), a British motoring magazine programme
* ''Top Gear'' (2002 TV series), a relaunched version of the or ...
'', presenting on the program from 1980 to 1991.
She was the motoring editor for the Observer from 1992 to 1995.
Baker was the vice-president and a former chair of The Guild of Motoring Writers
and was awarded the Pemberton Trophy in 2014.
She died on 14 November 2022 due to complications of
motor neurone disease
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease, is a neurodegenerative disease that results in the progressive loss of motor neurons that control voluntary muscles. ALS is the most comm ...
(MND).
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She was 75.
References
2022 deaths
Deaths from motor neuron disease
British television presenters
1947 births
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