Anne Diamond Biography
Anne Diamond is an English journalist, broadcaster, and advocate for children’s health. She currently co-hosts the weekend breakfast show on GB News with Stephen Dixon. She co-hosted Good Morning Britain on TV-am and Good Morning with Anne and Nick on BBC One. She received an OBE in 2023 for her contributions to children’s health and is the first non-medic to hold the Royal College of Paediatrics College Medal.
How old is Anne Diamond? – Age
She is 68 years old as of 8 September 2022. She was born in 1954 in Malvern, United Kingdom. Her real name is Anne Margaret Diamond.
Anne Diamond Family
Diamond’s parents were both of Irish descent, though her father was raised in Scotland. She grew up in Malvern, Worcestershire, and went to Worcester Grammar School for Girls.
Is Anne Diamond married? – Husband – Children
Diamond began an affair with Mike Hollingsworth while still married to his first wife in the mid-1980s. Following the birth of their second child, they married in 1989 and went on to have three more children together. Sebastian, their third child, died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) when he was three months old. Diamond and Hollingsworth divorced in 1999 after separating in 1998 due to his numerous affairs.
Anne Diamond Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Anne Diamond Weight Loss
It’s never been easy for her to keep her weight under control. When she was hit by a series of personal tragedies, she ballooned from a size eight to a size twenty. Anne lost four stone after years of bingeing and launched The Diamond Plan exercise video in 1999.
Anne was back up to a size 18 three years later when she appeared on Celebrity Big Brother. Anne lost weight again in 2004 and released an eating plan called A New You, as well as an exercise DVD. But the pounds began to creep back on. Anne, who weighed 15st, appeared on ITV’s Celebrity Fit Club in 2006. She and several other celebrities were given a series of physical challenges to help them lose weight. The results weren’t coming fast enough for Anne, so she revealed she had previously had weight loss surgery.
Anne, frustrated and determined to lose more weight, decided to have a gastric band fitted in the United Kingdom. This was more successful, and Anne described herself as “brilliant” as a result. and she revealed it during an appearance on Loose Women in 2017. Anne then explained how she grazes on food “all blinking day,” but had no idea how her relationship with food would change after the surgery.
Anne Diamond Radio
She hosted the breakfast show on London radio station LBC in the late 1990s, alternately with Nicholas Lloyd and Tommy Boyd. She left the station after only a few months of hosting her own lunchtime show in 1999.
She spent a week on The Wright Stuff in 2001, and was welcomed back in 2003 after Celebrity Big Brother, where she has remained to this day. She also returned to television in 2002, appearing on Celebrity Big Brother. She began presenting the weekday breakfast show on BBC Radio Oxford in October 2004. She left BBC Radio Oxford in 2006, presenting her final breakfast show on March 17, 2006, and was replaced by Sybil Ruscoe.
Much had been made on the breakfast show of “Diamond’s Dieting Buddies,” a scheme in which Diamond and listeners to the station in 2006 who wanted to lose weight would provide moral support to one another. Diamond hosted the mid-morning show on BBC Radio Berkshire and maintained a regular blog on the BBC website until 2015.
Anne Diamond Back to Sleep
She was the face of the “Back to Sleep” campaign, which encouraged parents to make sure their children slept on their backs. Since then, there has been a significant reduction in SIDS incidents in the UK, from over 2,000 per year to around 300, which has been attributed to the campaign. Diamond was the first non-medical person to receive the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health’s Gold Medal.
Anne Diamond Controversy
Diamond was quoted as saying that the game Resident Evil 4 “shouldn’t be allowed to be sold, even to adults” in an article for the Daily Mail tabloid newspaper on March 28, 2008.
Anne Diamond Career
Diamond began her career in television in Bristol with BBC West before moving to ATV Today in 1979 to work as a reporter and newsreader there. She was paired with Nick Owen to present the new East Midlands edition of Central News when ATV became Central Television in 1982. The Nottingham-based service’s launch was initially postponed for a month before being extended indefinitely. Seemingly forever to the question, Precious stone left to join ITN before re-joining the BBC turning into a correspondent on the daily program Cross country, alongside being a moderator on BBC News Evening.
Diamond joined TV-am on June 6, 1983. Nick Owen spoke with Greg Dyke, the new programme director, about finding new presenters to replace Anna Ford and Angela Rippon. Diamond was Owen’s idea, and the two of them met in a pub later that evening. Diamond joined the station six weeks later.
Diamond left TV-am in 1990 to work full-time on TV Weekly, which she had presented since 1989 and was initially produced by TVS and later by Topical Television. The show conducted interviews with people both in front of and behind the camera and looked at what goes on behind the scenes of various television programs. Diamond and Nick Owen were reunited to host the BBC daytime show Good Morning with Anne and Nick, which competed with ITV’s This Morning for four years from 1992 to 1996.
Diamond participated in the second season of Celebrity Big Brother in 2002, but he was eliminated as the second contestant. Diamond has been a regular panelist and stand-in presenter on The Wright Stuff since 2003, as well as on Jeremy Vine, its successor since 2018.
Diamond became involved in the co-development of a jewelry line in 2008, which she marketed under her own name brand on QVC. She became a regular panelist on ITV’s lunchtime talk show Loose Women on October 14, 2016, after impressing bosses when she appeared as a guest the week before. In accordance with her new position as the sole stand-in presenter for Jeremy Vine, she left the show in August 2018. She made an appearance on Channel 5’s Costa Del Celebrity in 2018.
Diamond regularly reviews newspapers on Sunday mornings for Sky News. Diamond joined the GB News team in 2022 to co-host Stephen Dixon’s weekend breakfast show.