Anthea Turner

ABOUT ANTHEA TURNER

British television and radio personality known for her work with the BBC and for her workout tapes. She hosted a reality series called Anthea Turner: Perfect Housewife, as well as children's and music programs titled, respectively, Blue Peter and Top of the Pops.

She was both born and educated in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, where she also began her broadcast career with BBC Radio Stoke.

She was a contestant on the 2001 season of Celebrity Big Brother and on the 2013 season of Dancing on Ice.

Her first marriage, to disc jockey Peter Powell , ended in 1998. She then married Grant Bovey in 2000.

In 1994 on the BBC, she and Noel Edmonds announced the results of England's first National Lottery.