Angela Rippon

Angela Rippon CBE
Angela Rippon in 1983
Born	(1944-10-12) 12 October 1944 (age 72) Plymouth, Devon, England
Nationality	British
Occupation	Journalist, newsreader, presenter
Notable credit(s)	BBC News Rip Off Britain Holiday Hit Squad Amazing Greys
Spouse(s)	Christopher Dare (m. 1967; div. 1989)

Angela May Rippon CBE (born 12 October 1944) is an English television journalist, newsreader, writer and presenter. Rippon presented radio and television news programmes in South West England before moving to BBC One's Nine O'Clock News, becoming a regular presenter in 1975. She was the first female journalist permanently to present the BBC national television news.

Rippon appeared on a Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show in 1976, presented the first two series of Top Gear and also presented Come Dancing. She was a presenter on, and co-founder of, breakfast television franchisee TV-am. In the 1990s, she moved to radio, presenting daily news programmes for LBC Newstalk between 1990 and 1994, and appeared on Channel 4's The Big Breakfast as a stand-in newsreader. She presented the BBC broadcast of the United Kingdom Ballroom Championships at the Bournemouth International Centre in 1991.

Rippon has written fourteen books, toured with a production of Anything Goes and presented a segment of BBC One's The One Show.

Since 2009, she has co-presented the BBC consumer show Rip Off Britain with Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville and since 2013, she has co-hosted Holiday Hit Squad on the BBC alongside Helen Skelton and Joe Crowley.

Rippon was born in Plymouth, Devon, into a working-class family. Her father, John, was a Royal Marine; she first saw him in 1947 when he returned from World War II. Rippon's Scottish mother, Edna, worked at a fine china company called Lawley's and was also a seamstress. She attended a girls' grammar school in Plymouth.