Anne Diamond

Radio Host

Anne Diamond was born in Malvern, England, United Kingdom on September 8th, 1954 and is the Radio Host. At the age of 69, Anne Diamond biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

Date of Birth
September 8, 1954
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
Malvern, England, United Kingdom
Age
69 years old
Zodiac Sign
Virgo
Profession
Journalist, Radio Personality, Television Presenter
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Anne Diamond Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Mike Hollingsworth, ​ ​(m. 1989; div. 1999)​
Children
5
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Anne Diamond Career

Diamond began her television career with BBC West in Bristol, before moving over to ATV Today as a reporter and newsreader in 1979. When ATV became Central Television in 1982, she was paired up with Nick Owen, to present the new East Midlands edition of Central News. The launch of the Nottingham-based service was initially delayed for a month, but then extended indefinitely. With no end in sight to the dispute, Diamond left to join ITN before re-joining the BBC becoming a reporter on the nightly programme Nationwide, along with being a presenter on BBC News After Noon.

On Monday 6 June 1983, Diamond joined TV-am. Greg Dyke, the newly appointed programme director, spoke with Nick Owen about replacements for sacked presenters Anna Ford and Angela Rippon. Owen suggested Diamond, and later that evening they met in a pub. Six weeks later Diamond joined the station.

Diamond left TV-am in 1990, to work full-time on TV Weekly, first produced by TVS and later by Topical Television, which she had presented since 1989. The programme looked behind the scenes of various television programmes and interviewed various personalities from in front and behind the camera. Diamond was rejoined with Nick Owen to present the BBC daytime show Good Morning with Anne and Nick, which ran four years against ITV's This Morning from 1992 till 1996.

In 2002, Diamond took part in the second series of Celebrity Big Brother, but became the second person to be evicted.

Since 2003, Diamond has been a regular panelist and stand in presenter on The Wright Stuff and from 2018 on its successor Jeremy Vine.

During 2008, Diamond became involved in co-developing a jewellery range, which she marketed on shopping channel QVC under her own name brand. She joined ITV's lunchtime chat show Loose Women as a regular panelist on 14 October 2016 after impressing bosses when she previously appeared the week before as a guest. She departed the show in August 2018, in line with her new role as the sole stand-in presenter for Jeremy Vine. In 2018, she appeared in Channel 5's Costa Del Celebrity.

Diamond is a regular reviewer of the newspapers for Sky News on Sunday mornings.

In 2022, Anne joined the GB News team to host the weekend breakfast show alongside Stephen Dixon.

In the late 1990s, she presented the breakfast show on the London radio station 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 2001, she spent a week on The Wright Stuff, and was welcomed back in 2003 after Celebrity Big Brother and has been there to the present day. In 2002, she also returned to television, appearing in Celebrity Big Brother. In October 2004, she joined BBC Radio Oxford, presenting the weekday breakfast programme. In 2006, she left BBC Radio Oxford, presenting her last breakfast programme on 17 March 2006, her replacement being Sybil Ruscoe. Much had been made on the breakfast programme of "Diamond's Dieting Buddies", a scheme whereby Diamond and listeners to the station in 2006 who wanted to lose weight would give one another moral support.

Diamond used to present the mid-morning programme on BBC Radio Berkshire and kept a regular blog on the BBC website until 2015.

Diamond has appeared in pantomimes such as Snow White playing the Wicked Queen at Stoke-on-Trent in 2005, alongside Ken Morley and Sooty, having said that she "thoroughly enjoyed the experience".

Source

Nick Owen credits his enduring 40-year friendship with Anne Diamond for helping them through parallel cancer battles: 'I like to feel that we've both helped each other get through it'

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 17, 2024
Many of us with long memories will certainly remember them as the first professional golden pair on breakfast television. It was long before Susanna Reid and Piers Morgan, Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield, or even the recently paired Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley. Owen was the ostensible yin to Diamond's vibrant yang on television-am, with a revolving wardrobe of comfy knitwear and a more relaxed, personable demeanor.

Anne Diamond shares her grief over her baby boy Sebastian's death: "I was angry that he didn't call out for me."

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 13, 2024
Sebastian's son suffered with sudden infant death syndrome in 1991 at the age of four-and-a-half.

After finding he had a'extensive' and 'aggressive' strain of the disease, former TV-am host Nick Owen admits to struggling to tell his children of his prostate cancer diagnosis

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 13, 2024
Nick Owen says he struggled to warn his children of his cancer diagnosis, but admits it was necessary for his immediate family to be'on the case.' In August, the former TV-am host announced that he was fighting 'extensive' and 'aggressive' prostate cancer, and that he has since been successfully treated. He admits that his first move was to warn his four adult children, two of whom were boys, so they would be aware of the illness and warning signs.