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British journalist and broadcaster (born )

For the Canadian writer, see Ann Diamond.

Anne Diamond OBE
Born	Anne Margaret Diamond () 8 September (age&#;70) Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
Occupation(s)	Broadcaster, journalist
Years&#;active	–present
Spouse	Mike Hollingsworth &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#;
Children	5

Anne Margaret DiamondOBE (born 8 September ) is a British journalist, broadcaster, and children's health campaigner.

She presently hosts the weekend breakfast show on GB News with Stephen Dixon as her co-presenter. She hosted Good Morning Britain for TV-am and Good Morning with Anne and Nick for BBC One, with Nick Owen. In , she was made an OBE for her service to children's health and is the first non-medic to hold the Royal College of Paediatrics College Medal.

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In , following the death of her third son Sebastian, Diamond successfully campaigned for research into cot death. The campaign, which she co-founded, is reported to have cut the UK's incidence of cot death from over 2, a year to approximately ^[2][3]

She has also worked for LBC, Radio Oxford, BBC London, BBC Berkshire, and is a regular columnist for the various UK newspapers.^[4] Since , she has made regular appearances on Channel 5's topical discussion show The Wright Stuff and now its successor, Jeremy Vine.^[5]

Early life and career

Diamond was born on 8 September in Birmingham, Warwickshire.^[6] Her parents were of Irish ancestry, although her father was brought up by his mother in Greenock, Scotland after his father went to Canada.^[7] She was brought up in Malvern, Worcestershire, and she attended Worcester Grammar School for Girls.^[8]

Diamond worked at a Butlins holiday camp as a redcoat and chalet-maid.^[9] She then began her career as a journalist on the Bridgwater Mercury and Bournemouth Evening Echo.

Career

Television

Diamond began her television career with BBC West in Bristol, before moving over to ATV Today as a reporter and newsreader in When ATV became Central Television in , she was paired up with Nick Owen, to present the new East Midlands edition of Central News.^[10] The launch of the Nottingham-based service was initially delayed for a month, but then postponed indefinitely.

With no end in sight to the dispute,^[11][12] Diamond left to join ITN before re-joining the BBC, becoming a reporter on the nightly programme Nationwide and a presenter on BBC News After Noon.^[13]

On Monday 6 June , Diamond joined TV-am.^[14]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.^[15]

Diamond left TV-am in ,^[16] to work full-time on TV Weekly, first produced by TVS and later by Topical Television, which she had presented since 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,^[17][18][19] which ran four years against ITV'sThis Morning from till

In , Diamond took part in the second series of Celebrity Big Brother, and was the second person to be evicted.^[20][21]

In Diamond became a regular panellist and stand-in presenter on The Wright Stuff, and from on its successor Jeremy Vine.^{[citation needed]} On occasion Diamond’s role on the show has caused confusion with one caller believing her to be a fish and chip shop owner and subsequently proceeded to attempt to place an order.

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During , Diamond became involved in co-developing a jewellery range, which she marketed on shopping channel QVC under her own name brand.^{[citation needed]} She joined ITV's lunchtime chat show Loose Women as a regular panellist on 14 October after impressing bosses when she previously appeared the week before as a guest.^{[citation needed]} She departed the show in August , in line with her new role as the sole stand-in presenter for Jeremy Vine.

In , she appeared in Channel 5'sCosta Del Celebrity.^{[citation needed]}

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

In , Diamond joined GB News to host the weekend breakfast show with Stephen Dixon.

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Radio

In the late s, she presented the breakfast show on the London radio station LBC, variously with Nicholas Lloyd and Tommy Boyd. After a few months presenting her own lunchtime show in , she left the station.

In , she spent a week on The Wright Stuff, and was welcomed back in after Celebrity Big Brother and has been there to the present day.

In , she also returned to television, appearing in Celebrity Big Brother. In October , she joined BBC Radio Oxford, presenting the weekday breakfast programme.

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In , she left BBC Radio Oxford, presenting her last breakfast programme on 17 March , 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 who wanted to lose weight would give one another moral support.^[22]

Diamond presented the mid-morning programme on BBC Radio Berkshire and kept a regular blog on the BBC website until ^[23]

Pantomime

Diamond has appeared in pantomimes including playing the Wicked Queen in Snow White at Stoke-on-Trent in , alongside Ken Morley and Sooty.

She said that she thoroughly enjoyed the experience.^[24]

Campaigning

Cot death

Diamond became involved in raising awareness of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS, also known as "cot death"), after her son Sebastian died from the syndrome in She fronted "Back to Sleep", a campaign telling parents to ensure that babies slept on their backs.

Since then incidents of SIDS in the United Kingdom fell from more than 2, per year to around , a drop which has been attributed to the campaign.^[5] Diamond was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, the only time it had been awarded to a non-medic.^[5]

Diamond spoke out over the cot death and baby-swap storyline in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders, featuring characters Kat Moon and Ronnie Branning.

"I think it's crass what they've done," she told ITV'sDaybreak breakfast programme, calling the plot "tacky sensationalism". There were many complaints about the episode after it was broadcast on New Year's Eve.

FSID named Diamond as their Anniversary Patron for their 40th anniversary in ^[25]

Video game violence

On 28 March , in an article for the Daily Mail tabloid newspaper, Diamond contributed to an article concerning violence in video games where she is quoted as saying that the game Resident Evil 4 "shouldn't be allowed to be sold, even to adults".^[26]

Leveson Inquiry

Diamond has been featured in numerous stories in the British tabloid press since the mids.

On 28 November , she gave evidence at the Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practice and ethics of the press.^[27] She gave detailed accounts of intrusion by journalists into her life and her dealings with tabloid newspapers.

Honours

Diamond was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the New Year Honours for services to public health and charity.^[28]

She is the first non-medic to be awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

Anne diamond biography Diamond has been featured in numerous stories in the British tabloid press since the mids. In , she also returned to television, appearing in Celebrity Big Brother. There were many complaints about the episode after it was broadcast on New Year's Eve. Diamond is a railway modeller.

Personal life

Diamond began an affair with Mike Hollingsworth in the mids while he was married to his first wife. They married in following the birth of their second child, and went on to have three more children together. Their third child, Sebastian, died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) when he was three months old.

Diamond and Hollingsworth separated in after he had numerous affairs, and divorced in ^[29]

Diamond is a railway modeller.^[30]

In June , Diamond announced that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. As part of her treatment, she underwent a double mastectomy and was having "intensive radiotherapy".^[31]

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