Anneka Rice Biography
Anneka Rice is a television and radio presenter, broadcaster, journalist, and painter from Wales. In 2020, she participated in Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back and ran for BBC 1’s Sport Relief with her Radio 2 colleagues.
How old is Anneka Rice? – Age
She is 64 years old as of 4 October 2022. She was born in 1958 in Cowbridge, United Kingdom. Her real name is Anne Lucinda Hartley Rice.
Anneka Rice Family – Education
She attended three independent schools: Dunrobin School, St Michael’s, and Croydon High School in Limpsfield, Surrey. Rice changed her name to “Anneka” when she joined the British actors’ union Equity because Annie Rice already existed.
Anneka Rice Wife – Children
Rice married theatre executive Nick Allott in 1988, and they have two sons, Thomas Alexander D, born in 1989 and Joshua James born in 1990. In 1997, she had another child with TV executive Tom Gutteridge.
Anneka Rice Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Anneka Rice Treasure Hunt
She then landed her first high-profile gig as the jumpsuit-clad “skyrunner” on Channel 4’s Treasure Hunt, which was co-hosted by former BBC newsman Kenneth Kendall. When Rice switched from Treasure Hunt to Challenge Anneka, they[who?] threw on a jacket and handed her a paint pot. She appeared on My Teenage Diary for Radio 4 in 2018, and Anneka’s 80s TV Treasure Hunt for Radio 2 in 2020. There have been Treasure Hunt and Challenge Anneka annuals, as well as board games.
Anneka Rice Jumpsuit
During this time, Madame Tussaud’s created a waxwork of her in her famous jumpsuit, which hung from a rope ladder in the entrance hall. When Rice switched from Treasure Hunt to Challenge Anneka, they[who?] threw on a jacket and handed her a paint pot. She also had a Spitting Image of herself made. In the 1980s, she collaborated with the clothing chain DASH to create a line of sport clothes and jumpsuits.
Anneka Rice BBC Radio 2
Rice and Patrick Kielty filled in for Alan Carr and Melanie Sykes on BBC Radio 2 in 2012, which led to her confirmation as Zoe Ball’s successor on the Weekend Breakfast Show, live from 6am, in February 2012. She took over the late night Saturday slot after five years, presenting Pick of Radio 2. She has hosted specials for Friday Night is Music Night, including one honoring Rodgers and Hammerstein. She also took over as host of the Arts Show from Jonathan Ross, and she frequently took it to the Edinburgh Festival. She was the regular host of the Olivier and Evening Standard Awards on Radio 2. Following the death of long-time host Ed Stewart, she has presented Junior Choice on Christmas Day morning since 2017. She participates in Radio 2’s annual Festival in a Day in Hyde Park.
Anneka Rice Channel 5
She returned to work in the 2000s as a regular on The Wright Stuff and as the host of the Channel 5 series Dinner Doctors. Challenge Anneka returned to ITV in 2006 for two specials, the first of which aired on Boxing Day. In Sri Lanka, this was a post-tsunami project. In 2007, the second project was to create an album to benefit the Children’s Hospice Association. In 2016, she appeared on Channel 5’s Secrets of the National Trust.
Anneka Rice Career
Rice worked on The World Today and Twenty-Four Hours while she was a trainee for the BBC World Service. She then moved to BBC children’s television, where she worked as a production assistant on Lucky Numbers and for Monica Sims. She moved to Hong Kong when she was 19 and worked as a news sub-editor for the English-language TV station TVB Pearl. She eventually became the evening newsreader of choice. She also worked as an account executive for the public relations firm Corporate Communications and produced Wheelbase, a weekly drive-time radio show for RTHK. A Children’s Guide to Hong Kong was her first book. She was a fittings model for Gloria Vanderbilt jeans during her lunch hours and dubbed kung fu films into English for Run Run Shaw.
She went back to the UK in 1982 and worked as a reporter for Thames Television on CBTV. She then got her first big job as the jumpsuit “skyrunner” of Channel 4’s Treasure Hunt, which she co-hosted with Kenneth Kendall, a former BBC newsman. The show continues to be one of Channel 4’s highest-rated programs ever, with over 7 million viewers on a regular basis. In 1986, it was up for a BAFTA.
In 1987, Rice hosted the BBC’s Children in Need appeal and tested an early version of her subsequent project, Challenge Anneka[10]. This was Rice’s idea and debuted on BBC1 in 1989. It aired for six seasons. The renovation of a Romanian orphanage in Siret, the furnishing of a camp for Malawian refugees, and more than 60 UK projects—the majority of which are still ongoing—were among the initiatives.
Rice, who owned the rights to Challenge Anneka, continued to work on the format even after it was sold to other European countries, which made their own versions of it. Challenge America with Erin Brockovich: She co-produced an American version with ABC in 2001. Erin Brockovich hosted The Miracle in Manhattan, a post-9/11 initiative to rebuild a soccer field and amphitheater in New York City.
Wish You Were Here…? was a show that Rice presented in the 1980s and 1990s. the ITV She traveled to over 50 countries after taking over as the main presenter on BBC1’s Holiday in 1999. She competed on BBC’s Driving Force, teaming up with rally-cross driver Barry Lee to win races in Chieftain tanks, off-road cars, trucks, and JCB diggers, an otherwise all-male competition. Together with Emlyn Hughes, she co-hosted ITV’s Combat, a show that pitted British regiments against one another. In the 1990s, she hosted Capital Woman, a weekly women’s magazine show on ITV. She hosted Passport, which took contestants to Botswana, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, and Egypt to compete in strenuous local activities to win a glitzy vacation. She also appeared as a guest on numerous other shows and hosted the Children’s Royal Variety Show.
During this time, Madame Tussaud’s created a wax figure of her in her well-known jumpsuit that was suspended from a rope ladder in the entrance hall. Anneka they[who?] moved Rice from Treasure Hunt to Challenge. she put on a jacket and held a paint pot. A Spitting Image puppet was also made out of her.