Angela Rippon

Angela Rippon, OBE (born 12 October 1944, Plymouth, England, UK) is a well-known English television journalist, newsreader and newspresenter. Her father was a Royal Marine, and she didn't see him until 1947 when he returned from World War II. Rippon attended a single-sex grammar school in Plymouth and was a Girl Guide. Upon leaving school at age 17 she joined the photographic office of the Western Morning News and worked for the Sunday Independen... more

Angela Rippon, OBE (born 12 October 1944, Plymouth, England, UK) is a well-known English television journalist, newsreader and newspresenter. Her father was a Royal Marine, and she didn't see him until 1947 when he returned from World War II. Rippon attended a single-sex grammar school in Plymouth and was a Girl Guide. Upon leaving school at age 17 she joined the photographic office of the Western Morning News and worked for the Sunday Independent. She then worked in BBC local radio and for Westward Television as an editor. Her presenting career started at the BBC in Plymouth. She is often erroneously 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), but ITN's Barbara Mandell predated her, having first appeared on the second night of ITV in 1955, and Nan Winton was the first to do so on the BBC, in 1960. However, Rippon was the first female newsreader to hold the job on a regular basis. She... less