Angela Rippon
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Angela Rippon, OBE (born October 12, 1944) is a well-known British television journalist. 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). However, Barbara Mandell predates her, having first appeared on the second night of ITV in 1955. However, she was the first female newsreader to hold the job on a regular basis.
She recently hosted a weekend news show called Live with Angela Rippon on the ITV News Channel. She famously guest-starred in a Morecambe and Wise Christmas show (first appearing behind a newsdesk and then emerging to do a high-kicking dance routine), and later presented Come Dancing.
In 1977, she hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in the UK. She was the first presenter of BBC Television's Top Gear motoring show. 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 correspondent for a television station in Boston, MA for a spell.
During the early 1980s, she wrote a series of four children's books. They told the adventures of a girl/young woman named Victoria Plum living in a forest, and her adventures with her forest-friends.
Equestrianism is another of her interests and she authored a book on Princess Anne´s first husband : Mark Phillips: the man and his horses.
Rippon is divorced.
In the mid-1980s she hosted the TV quiz show, Masterteam on BBC One.
Rippon was awarded the OBE in June 2004. In 2005 she co-hosted a new series of Sun, Sea and Bargain Spotting for BBC2 daytime.
She is currently (April 2006) touring the country as part of the cast of the musical 'Anything Goes'.
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Victoria Plum is a British children's literature character from the 1980s, created by well-known newsreader, Angela Rippon.
Victoria is a tree fairy, although she does not have wings. She has brown, curly hair and wears a hat made of an upturned white flower; a range of dresses decorated with white petals; and a pair of pointed slippers.
She lives in the Great Wood with other fairy characters (such as Marsha, Ben and Sugar Plum) and talking woodland creatures.
The stories promoted kindness towards, and understanding of, animals, the natural world and country life.
First written in 1981, the series of books and annuals were popular with young girls and spawned related merchandise, such as dolls and bags. Many of these items and even the books themselves are now collectible.
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