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Carol Jean Vorderman (born 24 December 1960) is a Welsh [1] broadcaster, media personality, and writer. Her media career began when she joined the Channel 4 game show Countdown, appearing with Richard Whiteley from 1982 until his death in 2005, and subsequently with Des Lynam and Des O'Connor, before leaving in 2008.
Dent's book about dialects, How to Talk Like a Local (ISBN 1905211791), was published in March 2010. Her first novel, Guilty by Definition , was published in August 2024. [ 22 ]
Riley was born in Rochford. [4] [5] Her mother is Jewish, and she has stated that her "family came over in the pogroms" from Tsarist Russia. [6]Riley was raised in the Thorpe Bay area of Southend-on-Sea and was educated at the independent Thorpe Hall School, and Southend High School for Girls, [7] a grammar school, where she passed four A-Levels at grade A, after which she obtained a second ...
The programme was presented by Richard Whiteley for 23 years until his death on 26 June 2005. It was then presented by Des Lynam from October 2005 until December 2006, Des O'Connor from January 2007 until December 2008, Jeff Stelling from January 2009 until December 2011 and Nick Hewer from January 2012 until his retirement in June 2021, with Colin Murray standing in for Nick Hewer during part ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Television presenter & former Countdown co-host Day 1 Day 18 8th: ... ITV News & Loose Women presenter Day 1 Day 14 11th:
Rosie Luisa Jones (born 24 June 1990) [1] is a British comedian, writer and actress. After starting her career as a writer on panel shows, she went on to appear as a guest on The Last Leg, 8 Out of 10 Cats, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, QI and Hypothetical.
Anne Josephine Robinson (born 26 September 1944) [1] is a journalist and television presenter, best known as the host of BBC game show The Weakest Link from 2000 to 2012, and again in 2017 for a one-off celebrity special for Children in Need. [2]
Before her comedy career, Pascoe was a tour guide in London. [8]Pascoe has appeared in many television programmes and panel shows, including Stand Up for the Week, The Thick of It, Mock the Week, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, Campus, Being Human, Twenty Twelve, QI, Have I Got News For You, Would I Lie to You, Hypothetical, and W1A as well as all-female sketch show Girl ...