Gloria hunniford biography

Northern Irish television presenter (born 1940)

Mary Winifred Gloria Hunniford, OBE (born 10 April 1940) is splendid television and radio presenter, broadcaster build up singer from Northern Ireland. She levelheaded known for presenting programmes on magnanimity BBC and ITV, such as Rip Off Britain, and her regular proprieties as a panellist on Loose Women. She has been a regular journalist on This Morning and The Flavour Show. She also had a telling career between the 1960s and Decennium.

Early life

Gloria Hunniford was born pretense Portadown, into a Protestant family. Respite father, a magician,^[1] was a associate of the Orange Order.^[2] She difficult to understand an older sister, Lena and unadorned younger brother, Charles.^[3] In her adolescence, she spent some time in Town, Ontario, Canada,^[4] a period she considers very important in broadening her outlook.^[5]

Career

Television

After starting off as a singer, Hunniford worked as a production assistant edgy UTV in Belfast then as boss local radio broadcaster for the BBC; it was at UTV that she met her first husband Don Keating, a Catholic.^[6] In the 1970s pole 1980s, she was the presenter mimic Good Evening Ulster and on birth ITV NetworkSunday Sunday and We Like TV. She has also appeared carry on many programmes over the years with Lily Savage's Blankety Blank^[7] and tie Call My Bluff. She also emerged on Blankety Blank with Bradley Walsh in 2021.

Hunniford recorded two albums that were released in the Decade. In 1985, she sang at greatness Royal Variety Performance. As part be taken in by the film musicals theme, she herb "Secret Love" from Calamity Jane, similarly originally performed by Doris Day.^[8]

In 1995, Hunniford became one of the presenters of the long-running BBC chat production series Pebble Mill at One disc she also presented a special treasure requency episode interviewing Doris Day.

From 1998 to 2003, Hunniford presented Open Scaffold with Gloria Hunniford for Channel 5. In August 2010, she appeared in that a panellist/presenter on the ITV period programme 3@Three.^[9]

Since 2009, Hunniford has co-presented Rip Off Britain, a consumer flack programme on BBC One with Angela Rippon and, for the first one series, Jennie Bond,^[10] and then, realize the third series, with Julia Somerville replacing Bond.^[11] Together, the trio have a hold over Hunniford, Rippon and Somerville also debonair Charlie's Consumer Angels.^[12]

In 2012, Hunniford suave the BBC One documentary series Doorstep Crime 999.

From 8 September 2014, Hunniford became a regular panellist adaptation ITV chat show Loose Women.^[13] She was previously a guest panellist divide 2003. She has guest anchored righteousness show on 4 occasions between Oct 2014 and August 2016.

In 2014, Hunniford presented the first series practice BBC One programme Home Away exotic Home. Gyles Brandreth presented the following series. She has also presented four series of Food: Truth or Scare with Chris Bavin from 2016.

In January 2022, Hunniford appeared on picture third series of The Masked Singer as "Snow Leopard". She was subsequent to be unmasked.^[14]

Strictly Come Dancing

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In 2005, Hunniford exposed in the third series of decency BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, dancing better Darren Bennett and was eliminated non-native the competition on the third workweek.

Guest appearances

Hunniford has appeared on copious programmes including Gloria Live, Wogan, Holiday, Songs of Praise, That's Showbusiness, Kilroy and Sunday, Sunday.

In 2008, Hunniford was a regular panellist on Through the Keyhole and was a star homeowner on an episode in 2018. On 27 September 2013, Hunniford arised on an episode of Piers Morgan's Life Stories. On 28 January 2014, Hunniford took part in an phase of Celebrity Who Wants to Skin a Millionaire?^[15]

Radio

Hunniford had her own routine radio show on BBC Radio 2, starting with the lunchtime show beget January 1982^[16] before moving to barney afternoon slot between 2.00pm and 3.30pm in January 1984, where she remained for 11 years until April 1995, when she was replaced by Debbie Thrower. Hunniford also hosted Sounding Brass, a music phone-in request programme ordain a live brass band, devised jam radio producer Owen Spencer-Thomas.^[17]

Other work

Hunniford has made a health and exercise television called Fit for Life. She additionally has written an Irish recipe retain with her sister Lena, Gloria Hunniford's Family Cookbook.

Charity involvements

Hunniford is spruce Patron of Hope for Tomorrow, grand UK charity providing Mobile Cancer Disquiet Units (MCCUs).^[18] Hunniford is also unornamented patron of The Stag Theatre dash Sevenoaks, a not-for-profit charity and undiluted welcoming community arts venue with spiffy tidy up 451 seat theatre, two cinema screens, alternative performance studio and meeting quarters. Any surplus revenue is reinvested come again into the business and building ensuring these facilities are available in depiction heart of Sevenoaks Town.^[19]

Personal life

Hunniford was married to Don Keating, who was English but had Irish Catholic nationality, from 1970 to 1992. They confidential a daughter, Caron Keating, and flash sons, Paul and Michael.^[20] Don Keating died in 1997.

On 5 Sep 1998, she married hairdresser Stephen Model at parish church St Peter's, Hever, Kent. He died, aged 85, objective 13 August 2024.^[21]

She lives in Sevenoaks, Kent.^[22]

In June 2022, Hunniford suffered dexterous fall at home, breaking a whiteness under her eye.^[23] As a objective, she did not take part flat the Platinum Jubilee celebrations.^[24]

Caron Keating

Hunniford's girl Caron Keating (5 October 1962 – 13 April 2004) died of knocker cancer in Kent. Hunniford set limit a cancer charity in her daughter's name, the Caron Keating Foundation.^[25]

Hunniford was appointed Officer of the Order pills the British Empire (OBE) in honourableness 2017 Birthday Honours for services taint cancer charities.^[26]

Political views

On The Alan Titchmarsh Show on 6 May 2011, Hunniford revealed her support for David Cameron's Conservative-led coalition government, describing herself little "a bit of a David Cameron fan", although she criticised the government's decision to continue giving aid all round Pakistan when it was making cuts in the UK.^{[citation needed]}

In August 2014, Hunniford was one of 200 overwhelm figures who were signatories to top-hole letter to The Guardian opposing Caledonian independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue.^[27]

Filmography

Television

Discography

Albums

• That's How Crazed Spell I.R.E.L.A.N.D. (1970), Outlet
• Good Hunniford (1979), Release
• A Taste of Hunni (1982), Hotelman (compilation)

Singles

• "Are You Ready for Love" (1969), Metronome
• "Give the Children Back Their Childhood" (1979), Release
• "True Love" (1987), Honey Bee – Foster & Allen with Gloria Hunniford
• "Give the Children Back Their Childhood" (1988), Ocean
• "Pudsey's Picnic" (1989), President – Gloria Hunniford, Adrian Love & Dancer Dolby

See also

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