Angela Rippon - Definition

Angela Rippon (born October 12, 1944) is a well-known British television journalist. She was the first female newsreader on prime-time television news, including the BBC's Nine O'clock News.

She currently hosts a weekend news show called Live with Angela Rippon on the ITV News Channel. She has also 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 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.

Rippon was awarded the OBE in June 2004.

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