Anne Diamond
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Anne Diamond (born September 8, 1954) is a British television presenter. She is well known for hosting Good Morning Britain for TV-am and the (deliberately) similarly-titled Good Morning... with Anne and Nick for BBC1, both with Nick Owen as her co-presenter.
Diamond appeared in Celebrity Big Brother in 2002 in aid of a number of charities.
She married Mike Hollingsworth in 1989, but they have since divorced. They have four children: Oliver, James, Jake and Conor.
Diamond attracted criticism in 1989, when she commented that a major advantage to East Germans of the fall of the Berlin Wall was the extended range of shops that they would now be able to visit, a comment that appeared to suggest that she had largely missed the event's political significance.
Diamond became involved in raising awareness of cot death after her son, Sebastian, died from the syndrome in 1991. She fronted a campaign telling parents to ensure that babies slept on their backs. Since then, there has a significant fall in the incidence of cot death in the UK, from more than 2000 per year to less than 200, which has been attributed to the campaign.
In the late 1990s she presented the breakfast show on London's LBC, variously with Sir Nicholas Lloyd and Tommy Boyd. After a few months presenting her own lunchtime show in 1999, she left the station. In 2002 she remained in the spotlight by appearing in Celebrity Big Brother.
In October 2004 she joined BBC Radio Oxford, presenting the weekday breakfast programme.
In 2006, she appeared in Celebrity Fit Club. She was initially made team captain but was later demoted for walking off on her team. However it has since been revealed that she received Gastric bypass surgery before appearing on the show. She later quit the show on week 7. Shortly afterwards she left BBC Radio Oxford, presenting her last breakfast programme on 17 March 2006, her replacement being Sybil Ruscoe.
Links
[Fathappens.co.uk (Ann Diamond's project)]
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