Gloria and Stephen hit it off right away when they met at a London event, and they talked and laughed for hours. They married in Kent in 1998, a year after Gloria’s ex-husband Don Keating died. Stephen was a celebrity hairstylist.
Winifred Mary Gloria Hunniford, OBE is a Northern Irish television and radio presenter who has appeared on BBC and ITV shows such as Rip Off Britain and as a panellist on Loose Women. She has worked as a reporter for This Morning and The One Show. Between the 1960s and the 1980s, she also had a singing career.
Hunniford joined the ITV chat show Loose Women as a regular panellist on September 8, 2014. She previously served on a panel as a guest in 2003. Between October 2014 and August 2016, she appeared as a guest host on the show four times.
Hunniford hosted the first series of BBC One’s Home Away from Home in 2014. The second series was hosted by Gyles Brandreth. She also co-hosted three episodes of Food: Truth or Scare with Chris Bavin in 2016.