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In the News (Wed 19 Nov 08)

  
  Anthea Turner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anthea Turner (born May 25, 1960) is a British television personality.
The show was not a major hit, and is chiefly remembered today for an incident in which Turner was badly burned by faulty pyrotechnics.
In 2001, Anthea appeared on Celebrity Big Brother, and was the third contestant to be evicted.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anthea_Turner   (310 words)

  
 RDF Management - Anthea Turner
Anthea’s career has taken her from BBC local radio presenting road traffic reports in her native Stoke to become one of the best known faces of broadcasting in the UK, hosting both top ratings entertainment shows and current affairs programmes.
Anthea presented her last GMTV in December 1996 and early ‘97 saw her presenting a highly successful six part series called Pet Power; this was followed by a major one-off special entitled Change Your Life Forever.
Anthea is currently filming her new series for the BBC entitled Anthea Turners' Perfect Housewife which will be transmitted in early 2006.
www.rdfmanagement.com /clients/anthea_turner.html   (704 words)

  
 Anthea Turner - UKGameshows   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Anthea was first seen on national television on But First This, a continuity programme for children.
Anthea presented the BBC's National Lottery Live show for 18 months, seemingly popularly, but her later return with the Big Ticket was a mistake - that was the format's fault, not hers.
Anthea began her career with a local BBC radio station, reading the traffic reports.
www.ukgameshows.com /index.php/Anthea_Turner   (170 words)

  
 BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | Anthea picture leaves sour taste
Television presenter Anthea Turner says she is "distressed" by claims her wedding photographs were issued as part of a sponsorship deal with a chocolate manufacturer.
Turner and her new husband, businessman Grant Bovey, married last week, and celebrated their nuptials with a party at the weekend.
Anthea Turner, 40, shot to fame in 1992 as a host of children's TV show Blue Peter.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/901802.stm   (525 words)

  
 RDF Media | Reality | Anthea Turner: Perfect Housewife   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Anthea Turner is the perfect housewife and the ultimate domestic goddess and she is setting out to try and re-educate the nations self confessed incompetent homemakers in a new series, Anthea Turner: Perfect Housewife, produced for BBC Three by RDF Media.
Anthea believes there is never an excuse for a chaotically run house.
Whether they choose a cocktail, dinner or children's party, it will be a huge challenge for our housewives who know that unless their homes come straight from the pages of a glossy magazine and their parties are perfection, all their hard work will have been for nothing.
www.rdfmedia.com /reality/PerfectHousewives.asp   (324 words)

  
 BBC - BBC THREE - Anthea Turner: Perfect Housewife   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Anthea Turner has always been one to take pride in her home.
Now she is setting out to try and re-educate the nation's homemakers in the lost art of keeping the perfect pad, in the hope that they too can achieve domestic bliss.
Anthea believes there is never an excuse for a filthy flat, cluttered cottage, untidy apartment or messy mansion.
www.bbc.co.uk /bbcthree/tv/perfect.shtml   (215 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | England | Staffordshire | Charity removes celebrity patron
Anthea Turner was in Dubai during a fundraising dinner
It says it has not heard from Turner in more than five months, and as far as it is concerned, it will not be doing any more business with her.
Turner is currently on holiday but her spokesperson said her TV work takes precedence over her charity work.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/staffordshire/3588912.stm   (369 words)

  
 Media Medium: Anthea Turner
Anthea Turner must have breathed a sigh of relief at surviving
Anthea Turner must have breathed a sign of relief at surviving celebrity Big Brother with her credibility intact and even modestly restored.
Anthea's bright, Tinkerbell persona is tied in with Pluto rising at her birth, and in mythology, when this lord of the underworld ascends, he wears an invisible helmet.
www.companyguide.co.uk /gm260301.htm   (574 words)

  
 icWales - Squeaky-clean Anthea will drive us to despair   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Anthea Turner will be urging us all to be perfect, rather than desperate, housewives in a new TV series.
At the end of the show, not only will the homemakers' homes be scrutinised by Anthea but each must host an event of their choice, such as a cocktail party or a children's bash, where everything must look as though it comes straight off the pages of a glossy magazine.
Anthea, wielding a vacuum cleaner while dressed in a negligee, believes there is never an excuse for a filthy flat, cluttered cottage, untidy apartment or messy mansion.
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 Ananova - Bruno shocked by Anthea's beating claims
Turner has told The Sun newspaper she was "knocked from pillar to post" by her ex-lover, and has given details of three specific assaults.
Turner told the newspaper that on another occasion Brookes threw a TV set at her, dislocating her elbow.
Turner alleged that in another incident, when she was a fledgling broadcaster, she told Brookes she had agreed to present a show on her local radio station, and he grabbed her by the hair, slamming her head against a car dashboard.
www.ananova.com /entertainment/story/sm_94251.html   (336 words)

  
 Action Medical Research - Anthea Turner lends her support to Paddington Bear
Much-loved TV presenter - Anthea Turner - has pledged her support to Paddington’s Suitcase Challenge - an appeal by Action Research’s mascot to raise £1million to fund research into children’s illnesses.
Anthea was keen to show her support of Action Research - one of the UK’s leading medical research charities - particularly of the vital work they fund into areas such as premature birth, meningitis and asthma.
Anthea said: “Action Research is one of the UK’s best kept secrets but their funding has played an integral part in helping develop Britain’s first polio vaccine and the rubella vaccine.
www.action.org.uk /news_media/press_releases/139   (220 words)

  
 Anorak: Anthea Comes Clean - Tabloid, Broadsheet, Showbiz and Sports Reviews.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
ANTHEA Turner wanted to know how the two women in her house managed to “achieve” anything in life with such messy laundry cupboards.
Anthea, who “believes” linen should be white - in much the same way the medical profession believe Valium to be a wonder drug - is an achiever.
Anthea asked her charges why they thought she did this.
www.anorak.co.uk /news.cfm?id=169175   (351 words)

  
 BBC - I Love Blue Peter - Anthea Turner presenter biography
Anthea's first job in the media was as a record librarian at Signal Radio in Stoke.
Then came the infamous 'Flake-gate' scandal, when it was alleged that Anthea and her new partner Grant Bovey had accepted payment to be shown eating a chocolate bar during their wedding.
Recently, Anthea has concentrated on an alternative career as a charity fundraiser and events co-ordinator, raising lots of money for such organisations as the Chase Children's Hospice.
www.bbc.co.uk /cult/classic/bluepeter/presenters/turner.shtml   (299 words)

  
 Celebrity Big Brother - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Celebrity Big Brother is a British TV reality show shown on Channel Four in which a number of celebrity contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize being donated to the winner's nominated charity at the end of the run.
The series is remembered for comedian Jack Dee's escape from the house - he evaded security for an hour before returning ("I got all the way to Stratford") - and Vanessa Feltz angrily scrawling words on the dining table, apparently feeling the pressure of constant surveillance.
It was also reported in the tabloid paper, The Sun, that Anthea Turner cooked Magic Mushrooms in the kitchen, but that is denied by her.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Celebrity_Big_Brother   (1444 words)

  
 Telegraph | News
Once regarded as the golden girl of television, the presenter's prospects had been in free fall in recent years after she made a series of failed shows and was lambasted for promoting a chocolate bar at her wedding.
Turner, 42, last appeared on terrestrial television three years ago as host of the National Lottery before slipping into obscurity as a presenter on Taste CFN, an obscure and now defunct digital television food channel.
Granada, which makes the show, said Turner had been approached because she could empathise with the couples, having herself undergone IVF treatment in an unsuccessful attempt to have a child with her husband, Grant Bovey.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/09/03/nanth03.xml   (421 words)

  
 Mirror.co.uk - News - EXCLUSIVE: ANTHEA RETURNER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
ANTHEA Turner (let) is making another TV comeback - as a self-styled domestic goddess in a major new BBC series.
Anthea, 45, even admits that she often carries a damp cloth around with her - just in case she should notice a smudge or smear on a light switch.
After their three-day intensive training course from Anthea they will return to their own homes to host an event on which they will be judged.
www.mirror.co.uk /news/tm_objectid=16241403&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=anthea-returner--name_page.html   (504 words)

  
 BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | Turner next to leave Big Brother
Anthea Turner is the third celebrity to be evicted from the Big Brother house.
Turner said her fellow housemates had offered to pay her to go back on Friday and tidy the place up.
Turner thought the incident was hilarious, but Dee did not see the funny side.
newsrss.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/1221275.stm   (627 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Former GMTV star, Anthea Turner, has said she feels she would be too old to adopt.
Anthea, and second husband Grant Bovey, have unsuccessfully attempted IVF treatment five times.
Once in the top five highest women on TV Anthea has seen many of her programs axed including the lottery Big Ticket, Your Kids Are In Charge.
www.adoption-net.co.uk /news/2002/mar/020315anthea.htm   (141 words)

  
 ANTHEA TURNER AXED BY MANAGER
Anthea's former manager Jonathan Shalit said it had been difficult to find work for the star.
Anthea Turner's career seems to have hit a trouble spot — the 42-year-old celebrity, who was once the second-highest paid woman on TV, has been unceremoniously dumped by high-profile manager Jonathan Shalit.
A source says that the now-unemployed star, who was both the Royal Variety Showbusiness Personality Of The Year and BBC Personality Of The Year in 1996, has not been able to come to grips with her slipping popularity.
www.hellomagazine.com /celebrities/2003/01/23/antheaturner   (287 words)

  
 Travel Channel | Presenter | Anthea Turner
Anthea Turner began her broadcasting career in BBC local radio presenting road traffic reports and later worked for Signal Radio in Stoke as promotions manager and outside broadcast producer.
On 19 November 1994 Anthea became the first presenter of BBC 1’s National Lottery Live programme, which quickly became BBC television’s highest rated entertainment programme.
Anthea currently is involved in property development in the UK.
www.travelchannel.co.uk /ontv/presenters/presenters_aturner.htm   (592 words)

  
 Corks 103fm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Fallen star Anthea Turner is to team up with Sophie, Countess of Wessex, at a charity ball, it emerged today.
Anthea and husband Grant Bovey are throwing open their Surrey home to Edward`s wife and a host of celebrities.
Anthea said: ``We are thrilled that the Countess of Wessex will be present at what should be a wonderful, fun evening with the serious purpose of raising much-needed money for a magnificent charity.``
www.103fm.ie /newsroom/indepth.asp?id=5066&pt=e   (178 words)

  
 Big Bro 2 - Celebrity Big Brother
Anthea Turner's husband (yes thats HER husband) has admitted phoning the Celebrity Big Brother voteline repeatedly to try to stop her from being evicted.
Anthea Turner has chosen bathroom cleaner as one of her items to take into the Big Brother house.
Anthea Turner, Vanessa Feltz and Keith Duffy will take their places in the house for a charity version of Big Brother.
www.btinternet.com /~virtuous/bigbro2/celebrity_big_brother.htm   (903 words)

  
 Turner Round the World - UKGameshows
Anthea Turner goes somewhere, people phone up and guess where she is and then answer a question.
The show would have been improved immeasurably if, say, Ms Turner told us where she was at the start of the show so we wouldn't have to bother with the next 25 minutes.
Anthea Turner holding the tickets for the prize holiday
www.ukgameshows.com /index.php/Turner_Round_the_World   (151 words)

  
 Anthea Turner in split with husband
THE television presenter Anthea Turner announced yesterday that she had separated from her husband, Peter Powell, and was now involved in a new relationship with a wealthy, married entrepreneur.
In a statement issued by the couple's solicitor, Miss Turner said the pressures of work and celebrity had contributed to the breakdown of her eight-year marriage to Mr Powell, the former Radio 1 disc jockey who became her agent and is credited with much of her rise to household-name prominence.
Miss Turner is a former Blue Peter girl who became one of the highest-paid women on television.
www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/01/03/nant03.html   (622 words)

  
 ANTHEA TO BE EVICTEE NUMBNER 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Anthea Turner has been the third member of the celebrity Big Brother house to be evicted.
During her time in Big Brother, the public may have changed their views on the clean-cut Anthea Turner that we are all used to seeing on our television screens, as her boisterous side has been exposed.
Now Anthea has been evicted from the house the competition is becoming more intense as the celebrity members are now down to three.
www.whitby-uk.com /apollo/html/Features/evictee.htm   (138 words)

  
 http://come.to/abpgmovies - ABPG Movies, Traingirl, Bud Dwyer Suicide, Anthea Turner, Pissing Monkey, Skater.mov...
This clip shows a tv-reporter reporter called Anthea Turner sitting on the edge of a truck platform which is covered.
Anthea was to compere the coverage of the Royal Tournament, and a piece-to-camera had been arranged where she would do a competition link, and at the end there would be a spectacular explosion and a motorcycle would drive out of the back of the lorry parked behind her.
The director told Anthea to sit on the tailgate of the lorry to do the piece, and of course when the rider fired off the thunderflash, the blast from it and the nitrated cloth set Anthea's hair and mike alight.
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 Anthea Turner
Anthea Turner in her role as a Blue Peter presenter visiting a school
Anthea Turner visiting children of junior school age whilst working for the Blue Peter Show
Anthea Turner surrounded by a collection of teddy bears
www.sentinellibrary.co.uk /anthea_turner.html   (179 words)

  
 UKTV Style : Message boards : Programmes and Celebrities : Please tell me Anthea Turner is NOT coming to UKStyle!
I saw an ad briefly on UKStyle with Anthea Turner smiling in her whiter than white teeth.
Anthea Turner is a family cracker – as far as I could remember… Maybe a suitable program for her to present is an animal program?
Not keen on Anthea, but you never know she might be ok on UK STYLE.
www.uktvstyle.co.uk /index.cfm/uktvstyle/messageBoard.thread/threadID/2843   (910 words)

  
 UP2U   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Yes, this was the show that gave Anthea 'Stomach' Turner her big break, but judge not too harshly: somehow, the programme wasn't as bad as it sounds at this remove.
Even Anthea Turner was nowhere near as annoying then (though, like Sophie Aldred, her natural environment is Children's Telly, and whoever let her out into the grown up world needs slapping).
After UP2U, Turner swiftly moved on to Blue Peter - apparently to fulfil her lifelong ambition - Jenni Powell presented a wildlife programme for Children's BBC, and Tony Dortie...
www.paulmorris.co.uk /satkids/up2u.htm   (200 words)

  
 Saturn Business: Bookkeeping, Accounting, Brooklin, Toronto, GTA, Anthea Turner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Anthea is a member of the Canadian Bookkeepers Association.
She started working in the Accounting field in 1980 and came to Canada from the U.K. in 1987.
One referral led to another and in 2001 Anthea decided to operate Saturn Business Services on a full time basis.
www.saturnbusiness.ca   (127 words)

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