Angela May Rippon CBE is an English television journalist, newsreader, writer and presenter. Rippon presented radio and television news programmes in South West England before moving to BBC One’s Nine O’Clock News, becoming a regular presenter in 1975.
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She was the first female journalist permanently to present the BBC national television news and the second female news presenter on British television after Barbara Mandell on Independent Television News (ITN) in 1955.
Rippon has written fourteen books, toured with a production of Anything Goes and presented a segment of BBC One’s The One Show.
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Since 2009, she has co-presented the BBC consumer show Rip Off Britain with Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville and since 2013, she has co-hosted Holiday Hit Squad on the BBC alongside Helen Skelton and Joe Crowley. She also regularly voices the BBC One game show The Wall.
Angela Rippon Children: Does Angela Rippon Have Kids?
Angela has lived a fulfilling life as a happy singleton for some 27 years. Her marriage to her childhood sweetheart ended in divorce in 1989 and she never remarried. Although she does not have children of her own, she has godchildren who are a big part of her life.
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