Upon leaving school at age 17, Rippon joined the photographic office of the Western Morning News and worked for the Sunday Independent. She then worked in BBC local radio and for Westward Television as an editor.
Her presenting career started at the BBC in Plymouth. She is often erroneously stated to have been the first female newsreader on prime-time television news, on BBC2 in 1974 (later presenting the BBC's Nine O'Clock News), but ITN's Barbara Mandell predated her, having first appeared on the second night of ITV in 1955, and Nan Winton was the first to do so on the BBC, in 1960. However, Rippon was the first female newsreader to hold the job on a regular basis. She famously guest-starred in the 1976 Morecambe and Wise Christmas show, first appearing behind a newsdesk and then emerging to do a high-kicking dance routine. Her appearance was so popular she made a cameo appearance in the following year's show, in which she was revealed to be one of the members of a chorus line made up of female newsreaders. Rippon later presented the long-running show Come Dancing. In 1977, she hosted the Eurovision Song Contest at The Wembley Conference Centre in the UK.
She was the first presenter of BBC television's Top Gear, appearing on the motoring programme from 1977 to 1979. She appeared briefly on TV-am following its launch in 1983. After a much publicised exit from TV-am (with most of its other founder presenters), Rippon worked as an Arts and Entertainments Editor for Channel 7 television in Boston, Massachusetts for a brief period. Rippon helped to present the BBC's coverage of the wedding between Lady Diana Spencer and Prince Charles on 29 July 1981and was part of the BBC's presenting team of the 1979 general election results. In the mid-1980s, she hosted the TV quiz show, Masterteam on BBC One, then went on to host the ITV revival of the popular panel game What's My Line? from 1989 to 1990.
In 1991, she presented for television the United Kingdom Ballroom Championships at the Bournemouth International Centre. From 1990 to 1994, she presented a daily radio news programme on LBC Newstalk, Angela Rippon's Morning Report, and, later, Angela Rippon's Drivetime. She was also a regular stand-in newsreader on Channel 4's The Big Breakfast when regular newsreaders were on holiday or otherwise unavailable.In 2005, she co-hosted a new series of Sun, Sea and Bargain Spotting for BBC2. In April 2006, she toured the country as part of the cast of the musical Anything Goes. In 2007, in its eleventh series, she became a presenter on Cash in the Attic. The daytime television programme broadcast on BBC One meets members of the general public in their homes searching for valuables and antiques to be sold at auction.
In 2010, she appeared on the ITV show Dancing on Ice as a judge for one night only, covering for Robin Cousins. However, she appeared again on the show as one of the 16 participants in the sixth season which aired 9 January 2011, with her professional partner, Canadian ice skater, Sean Rice.In March 2011, she appeared with Lenny Henry, Samantha Womack and Reggie Yates in the BBC fundraising documentary for Comic Relief called Famous, Rich and in the Slums, where the four celebrities were sent to Kibera in Kenya, Africa's largest slum. In 2011 she joined the One Show having a 5 minute slot presenting Rippon's Britain.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Rippon
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| While hosting the contest in 1977. |
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