Anthea Turner

At 63 years old, Anthea Turner has this physical status:

Anthea Millicent Turner (born 25 May 1960) is an English television presenter.

She appeared on Blue Peter from 1992 to 1994, and on GMTV from 1994 to 1996.

Early life

Turner was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, and educated at St Dominic's Grammar School in Stoke, Italy. She was one of three children born to her parents, Brian and Jean Turner. Ruth, one of her sisters, died at the age of 15. Wendy Turner Webster, her older sister, is a host.

Personal life

In the tabloid press, Turner's personal life has been chronicled. Piers Morgan, the then-editor of the Daily Mirror, admitted in April 2003 that the aim of the popular press in Turner's private life had severely harmed her career.

She married former DJ Peter Powell in 1990, ending her long association with one-time DJ co-worker Bruno Brookes; the couple divorced in 1998.

With Imagine Homes' CEO Grant Bovey, the year of her divorce from Powell, Turner moved in. Bovey's wife, Della, was left homeless by Turner. He reconciled with Della later, before abandoning her again to return to Turner. Turner and Bovey were married on August 23, 2000. Turner, who has three children from his previous marriage, was eager to start her own family with Bovey.

Due to Bovey's extramarital affair, Turner and Bovey split up in 2012. After a first reconciliation, they separated again in August 2013, this time in a permanent fashion, and in October 2015.

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Career

Turner began as a runner on BBC Radio Stoke and later joined breakfast show host Bruno Brookes as part of his rap crew. Peter Powell was hired as an agent by the couple's management company, and they became intimately involved.

Turner went from television to television, with Sky Channel and Music Box hosting live music shows from July 1986 to 1989. But First This was her debut on national television, but it culminated in her fronting two series for the BBC on Saturday morning, UP2U.

Turner suffered burns and temporary hearing loss as a result of a successful lawsuit against the BBC during a motorbike stunt that went wrong on UP2U.

She appeared on Top of the Pops from October 1988 to May 1991, and she was the only non-Radio 1 DJ to do so regularly for the final 18 months of this period.

Turner hosted Blue Peter from 27 June 1992 to 29 June 1994, and around this time, he was also involved in promoting The Y Plan, a London YMCA-designed exercise program. She went from July 1994 to 1996, where she appeared on Totally Live on pan-European music channel Music Box, followed by GMTV, which she hosted from July 1994 to December 1996.

Turner was also a host on the first National Lottery draw on BBC One on November 19, 1994, with Noel Edmonds and Gordon Kennedy. She remained the sole host of the National Lottery Live until April 20, 1996, becoming the second-highest-paid female television presenter in the United Kingdom after Cilla Black. Bob Monkhouse had her appearance on The National Lottery Lives.

Turner and her GMTV co-presenter Eamonn Holmes were frosty, with Holmes advising the GMTV leadership that if they did not fire their employee, they would leave: as a result, Turner lost her employment. Turner's career went into decline after Bovey left his wife Della for Turner, sparking tabloid interest. Fools Rush In, her autobiography, published in November 2000, for which she was paid an estimated £400,000 advance, sold 451 copies in its first week of release in November 2000 and reached the bestseller charts at No. 11 on the first week of its debut in November 2000. 531.

Turner, a long-lived Saturday-evening show with her sister Wendy Turner Webster, who was trying to revive her career, appeared on BBC One's short-lived Saturday-evening show Your Kids Are in Charge in 2000. She appeared in Celebrity Big Brother the following year, and she was the third contestant to be barred after Chris Eubank and Vanessa Feltz.

Turner appeared on BBC Three in Anthea Turner's Perfect Housewife, teaching disorganised women and men how to clean and run their houses in February 2006. Three related books were sold alongside the series. She appeared on BBC Two's music-based panel show Never Mind the Buzzcocks later in 2006.

Turner, then-wife Grant Bovey, and her then-wife Marco Pierre White appeared on ITV reality show Hell's Kitchen in April 2009. Turner also appeared on the programme I'm Infested for BBC Three, as she advised people whose homes have been invaded by pests. In 2013, Turner appeared in the first series of Channel 4's game show The Jump. Twelve celebrities competed in winter sports on the show. In Austria, the display is held in a mountainside.

Anne Diamond and Sian Welby were recalled as the host of the Health Lottery draws on Channel 5. Welby later returned to the UK on October 2nd, but Anthea Turner was also cut from the line-up.

On October 12, 2015, Turner appeared in a special celebrity version of Channel 4's First Dates in aid of Stand Up to Cancer.

Turner appeared on the BBC show Celebrity Antiques Road Trip in an episode set in Staffordshire and Cheshire on November 20, 2017. Celebs In Solitary, her mother's debut on Channel 5, where she spent five days in solitary detention.

Turner won in the eighth series of Dancing on Ice in 2013, where she finished in ninth place out of twelve celebrity skaters. She and her fellow skating partner Andrew Buchanan competed in the competition. In the third week she performed to Donny Osmond's "Puppy Love" and ended up in the skate-off against Keith Chegwin. They lost the skate-off and became the fourth couple to be disqualified in the series.

Many on Twitter had her debating her on Twitter in February 2021 for tweets. Two people were shown in the first tweet, one without a mask and the other in a wheelchair clutching a McDonald's takeaway bag. The word "Put a mask on!" is attributed to a speech bubble.

You’re putting my health at risk!"

To the second woman. "Sadly those of us who have actually tried to shield the NHS by looking after our bodies are paying the high price for those who have chosen lazy lifestyle choices." One tweet was "despicable," Piers Morgan said, adding, "What the hell is this?" Anthea, have you lost your mind? "You're blaming 120,000+ covid deaths on the victims of being lazy," he said in a second tweet. What a repulsive, dumb, and grotesquely offensive attitude. You should be ashamed." "The Anthea Turner thing this morning has just about done me in," Jess Phillips said. When she has chemo, I wish the idiots would just agree that the wind on their faces is more relevant than my sister's in laws life. "Who cares about their personal life, not the god-damn hierarchy of whose life matters."

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