Angela Rippon
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Angela Rippon (born October 12, 1944) is a well-known British television journalist. She is often erronously stated to have been the first female newsreader on prime-time television news, on BBC2 in 1974 (later presenting the BBC's Nine O'clock News). However, Barbara Mandell predates her, having first appeared on the second night of ITV in 1955.
She currently hosts a weekend news show called Live with Angela Rippon on the ITV News Channel. She famously guest-starred in a Morecambe and Wise Christmas show (first appearing behind a newsdesk and then emerging to do a high-kicking dance routine), and later presented Come Dancing.
In 1977, she hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in the UK. She was the first presenter of BBC Television's Top Gear motoring show. She appeared briefly on TV-am following its launch in 1983. After a much publicised exit from TV-am (with most of its other founder presenters) Rippon worked as an arts correspondent for a television station in Boston, MA for a spell.