caption birth_place nationality credits birth_date spouse image article_title name occupation
angela rippon in 1983 plymouth , devon , england british '' '' holiday hit squad '' '' amazing greys '' bbc news '' '' rip off britain '' 12 october 1944 christopher dare 1967 1989 div angela -rrb- -lrb- 363351929 -rrb- . jpg rippon -lrb- durdham downs , bristol , 1983 angela rippon
 angela rippon obe journalist , newsreader , presenter
angela rippon

angela mary rippon obe -lrb- born 12 october 1944 -rrb- is an english television journalist , newsreader , writer and presenter .
rippon presented radio and television news programmes in south west england before moving to bbc one 's `` nine o'clock news '' , becoming a regular presenter in 1975 .
she was the first female journalist to present the bbc national television news on a permanent basis .
rippon appeared on a morecambe and wise christmas show in 1976 , presented the first two seasons of `` top gear '' and also presented `` come dancing '' .
she was a presenter on , and co-founder of , breakfast television franchisee tv-am .
in the 1990s , she moved to radio , presenting daily news programmes for lbc newstalk between 1990 and 1994 , and appeared on channel 4 's `` the big breakfast '' as a stand-in newsreader .
rippon has written fourteen books , toured with a production of `` anything goes '' and presented a segment of bbc one 's `` the one show '' .
she was appointed an officer of the order of the british empire in 2004 .
since 2009 , she has co-presented the bbc consumer show `` rip off britain '' with gloria hunniford and julia somerville and since 2013 , she has co-hosted `` holiday hit squad '' on the bbc alongside helen skelton and joe crowley .
since 2014 , she has co-hosted the itv entertainment series `` amazing greys '' alongside paddy mcguinness .
