children birth_date spouse article_title name occupation
jemma victoria cooke 13 march 1973 dave cooke tina heath
 tina heath television presenter and actress
tina heath

tina heath is a british actress and former television presenter .
in 1973 , she played the title role in the popular children 's television serial `` lizzie dripping '' after first playing the character in an episode of `` jackanory playhouse '' in 1972 ; her character was supposed to be 12 years old , but in fact heath was already 20 at the time .
she also played , in that same year 's bbc miniseries production of `` jane eyre '' -lrb- 1973 -rrb- , the character of helen burns , the fourteen-year-old boarding-school girl who is cruelly birched by miss scatcherd and who befriends the ten-year-old jane when jane is a newcomer to lowood institute .
on 5 april 1979 she joined the children 's series , `` blue peter '' , and left on 23 june 1980 to have her baby , jemma victoria cooke .
she was the first incumbent `` blue peter '' presenter to become pregnant .
during her 14-month stint , she had an ultrasound scan live on television and climbed to the top of westminster abbey , while heavily pregnant .
in 1981 , she returned to `` blue peter '' , to model corsets alongside her successor , sarah greene .
in 2001 , she appeared in the special `` blue peter '' pantomime `` rock n ' roll christmas '' , where she played the role of ` miss dripping ' .
