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Anne Margaret Diamond (born 8 September 1954) is a British journalist and broadcaster. She presently hosts the weekend breakfast show on
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with Stephen Dixon as her co-presenter. She hosted '' Good Morning Britain'' for
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and ''
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'' for
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, both with Nick Owen as her co-presenter. She has also worked previously for '' Loose Women'',
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, and is a regular columnist for the '' Daily Mail''. Since 2003, she has made regular appearances on Channel 5's topical discussion show ''
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Retrieved 18 June 2010 In 1991, following the death of her third son Sebastian, Diamond successfully campaigned for research into cot death. The campaign, which she co-founded, is reported to have cut the incidence of cot death in the UK from 2,000 a year to around 300.


Early life and career

Diamond's parents were of Irish ancestry, although her father was brought up in
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. She was brought up in Malvern, Worcestershire, and she attended Worcester Grammar School for Girls. Diamond worked at a
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holiday camp as a redcoat and chalet-maid. She then began her career as a journalist on the '' Bridgwater Mercury'' and '' Bournemouth Evening Echo.''


Career


Television

Diamond began her television career with BBC West in
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, before moving over to '' ATV Today'' as a reporter and newsreader in 1979. When ATV became Central Television in 1982, she was paired up with Nick Owen, to present the new East Midlands edition of '' Central News''. The launch of the Nottingham-based service was initially delayed for a month, but then extended indefinitely. With no end in sight to the dispute, Diamond left to join ITN before re-joining the
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becoming a reporter on the nightly programme ''Nationwide'', along with being a presenter on BBC '' News After Noon''. On Monday 6 June 1983, Diamond joined
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.
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, the newly appointed programme director, spoke with Nick Owen about replacements for sacked presenters
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and
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. Owen suggested Diamond, and later that evening they met in a pub. Six weeks later Diamond joined the station. Diamond left TV-am in 1990, to work full-time on ''TV Weekly'', first produced by TVS and later by Topical Television, which she had presented since 1989. The programme looked behind the scenes of various television programmes and interviewed various personalities from in front and behind the camera. Diamond was rejoined with Nick Owen to present the BBC daytime show ''
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'', which ran four years against ITV's '' This Morning'' from 1992 till 1996. In 2002, Diamond took part in the second series of ''
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'', but became the second person to be evicted. Since 2003, Diamond has been a regular panelist and stand in presenter on ''
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'' and from 2018 on its successor '' Jeremy Vine''. During 2008, Diamond became involved in co-developing a
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range, which she marketed on shopping channel QVC under her own name brand. She joined ITV's lunchtime chat show '' Loose Women'' as a regular panelist on 14 October 2016 after impressing bosses when she previously appeared the week before as a guest. She departed the show in August 2018, in line with her new role as the sole stand-in presenter for
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. In 2018, she appeared in Channel 5's ''Costa Del Celebrity''. Diamond is a regular reviewer of the newspapers for Sky News on Sunday mornings. In 2022, Anne joined the
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team to host the weekend breakfast show alongside Stephen Dixon.


Radio

In the late 1990s, she presented the breakfast show on the London radio station LBC, variously with Sir Nicholas Lloyd and
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. After a few months presenting her own lunchtime show in 1999, she left the station. She now presents 'Breakfast with Stephen & Anne' on GB News TV Fridays to Sundays, with Step
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'' and has been there to the present day. In 2002, she also returned to television, appearing in ''Celebrity Big Brother''. In October 2004, she joined BBC Radio Oxford, presenting the weekday breakfast programme. In 2006, she left BBC Radio Oxford, presenting her last breakfast programme on 17 March 2006, her replacement being Sybil Ruscoe. Much had been made on the breakfast programme of "Diamond's Dieting Buddies", a scheme whereby Diamond and listeners to the station in 2006 who wanted to lose weight would give one another moral support. Diamond used to present the mid-morning programme on
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and kept a regular
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on the BBC website until 2015.


Pantomime

Diamond has appeared in pantomimes such as ''Snow White'' playing the Wicked Queen at Stoke-on-Trent in 2005, alongside Ken Morley and Sooty, having said that she "thoroughly enjoyed the experience".


Campaigning


Cot death

Diamond became involved in raising awareness of
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(SIDS) – also known as "cot death" – after her son, Sebastian, died from the syndrome in 1991. She fronted "Back to Sleep", a campaign telling parents to ensure that babies slept on their backs. Since then, there has been a significant fall in incidents of SIDS in the United Kingdom, from more than 2,000 per year to around 300, which has been attributed to the campaign. Diamond was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, the only time it has ever been awarded to a non-medic. Diamond spoke out over the cot death and baby-swap storyline in the
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soap opera '' EastEnders'', featuring characters
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and Ronnie Branning. "I think it's crass what they've done," she told ITV's '' Daybreak'' breakfast programme, branding the plot "tacky sensationalism". The episode gathered numerous complaints following its New Year's Eve airing. FSID named Anne Diamond as their Anniversary
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for their 40th anniversary in 2011.


Video game violence

On 28 March 2008, in an article for the '' Daily Mail'' tabloid newspaper, Anne Diamond contributed to an article concerning violence in video games where she is quoted as saying that the game
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"shouldn't be allowed to be sold, even to adults".


Leveson Inquiry

Diamond has been featured in numerous stories in the British
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since the mid-1980s. On 28 November 2011, she gave evidence at the Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practice and ethics of the press. She gave detailed accounts of intrusion by journalists into her life and her dealings with tabloid newspapers.


Personal life

Diamond began an affair with Mike Hollingsworth in the mid-1980s while he was married to his first wife. They married in 1989 following the birth of their second child, and went on to have three more children together. Their third child, Sebastian, died of
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(SIDS) when he was three months old. Diamond and Hollingsworth separated in 1998 after he had numerous affairs, and divorced in 1999. Diamond is a model railroader.


References


External links


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