Angela Rippon Net Worth, Income, Salary, Earnings, Biography

Angela Mary Rippon OBE (born 12 October 1944) is an English television journalist, newsreader, writer, and presenter who has worked in the industry since the early 1960s. Rippon worked as a news presenter on radio and television in the South West of England before joining the BBC’s Nine O’Clock News in 1975, where he became a regular broadcaster the following year. She was the first female journalist to be hired on a regular basis by the BBC to deliver the national television news. 

Rippon made his television debut in 1976 on the Morecambe and Wise Christmas Special. He went on to host the first two seasons of Top Gear and to host the reality show Come Dancing. She was a presenter on TV-am, a morning television channel, and was also a co-founder of the station. In the 1990s, she transitioned to radio, where she hosted daily news programmes for LBC Newstalk from 1990 and 1994. She also featured on Channel 4’s The Big Breakfast as a substitute presenter during the same period. Rippon has authored fourteen novels, toured with a production of Anything Goes, and appeared on a part of BBC One’s The One Show, among other accomplishments. 

In 2004, she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, which is the highest honour bestowed upon a British citizen. With Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville, she has co-presented the BBC consumer programme Rip Off Britain since 2009. Since 2013, she has co-hosted the BBC show Holiday Hit Squad with Helen Skelton and Joe Crowley, which has aired since 2013. Since 2014, she has co-hosted the ITV entertainment series Amazing Greys with Paddy McGuinness, which has aired since its premiere in 2014.

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