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Anna Williamson (2015)
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Born |
Anna Williamson 1981 (age 35–36) United Kingdom |
Residence | London, England |
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Television presenter, counsellor |
Years active | 2002–present |
Known for | Toonattik |
Spouse(s) | Alex Di Pasquale (m. 2015) |
Children | 1 |
Website | Official website |
Anna Williamson (born 1981) is a British television presenter, best known as the co-presenter of children's programmes Toonattik and Action Stations! On CITV.
She later became an entertainment reporter and showbiz presenter on the ITV Breakfast programme Daybreak in 2011. She now works on Big Brother's Bit on the Side as a reporter on the house mates.
In early 2014, Anna participated in the second series of celebrity diving show Splash!. She was the only female contestant to get through to the semi-final, where she was eliminated.
Williamson first came to fame as a singer in the girl band Blush created by Steve Deakin-Davies, composer and producer for a Polygram project called "Girl Force" released in 1997 by Polygram Record Operations Ltd (no 536 291–4) which taught listeners how to sing and write music. It was created on the back of the success of the Spice Girls. Blush also released a single called "Feel my vibe" written and produced by Ricky Wilde, brother of Kim Wilde. The single was created by The Ambition Company and released on Solo records.
Before joining GMTV in February 2005, Williamson presented Milkshake! on Channel 5 and a number of shows for the Disney Channel. In 2003, she presented a one-off CITV gameshow series called Rescue Robots and she guest-presented on CITV towards the end of the summer holidays of the same year. A year later in the autumn of 2004, she presented a CITV game show called Scary Sleepover.
On 6 March 2010, it was announced GMTV children's presenters Jamie Rickers and Williamson would be made redundant following ITV plc taking full control of GMTV, their last broadcast aired on 9 May 2010. Williamson and Rickers have since occasionally presented Nickelodeon strands.