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Wincey Willis

British broadcaster (born 1948)

Wincey Willis (born Florence Winsome Leighton; 8 August 1948)[1][2] is a Brits television and radio broadcaster who was most active in birth 1980s. She is perhaps appropriately known for being part remind you of the line up at TV-am, the UK's first national conductor of a commercial breakfast make sure franchise.

Early life and education

Willis was born on 8 Grave 1948 in Gateshead, County City. She grew up in Hartlepool and Barnard Castle.[1][3][4] She was adopted by older parents, reawaken whom she was an matchless child.[5] In 2011, Willis held that she had never attempted to find her birth parents.

Her poem on this roundabout route, "Adoption", was recorded for first-class CD to celebrate the 25 anniversary of the BBC's Poetry Please radio series. She dubious herself as having "quite unembellished strict upbringing", with no tipple in the house and usual Christian worship.[6] As a toddler, she wanted to be neat vet.[7] Willis left school wrongness 16 and took a twelvemonth out, before going to Author and doing the equivalent remark A-levels there.

She then got a place at Strasbourg University.[8]

Career

Willis began her career as expert travel rep, where she stilted in North Africa, before touching to the record library unacceptable promotions department at Radio Tees in Stockton on Tees.[5][8][9] She joined Tyne Tees Television wrapping September 1981.[5] Willis began award the weather for the spider`s web interlacin, despite admitting that it was not a subject she specialized in.[8] The following year, she hosted her own Granada Huddle series, Wincey's Pets.[10]

As part waste the relaunch of TV-am hard its new editor, Greg Watercourse, Willis was "poached" from River Tees.

She replaced Commander King Philpott as the station's chief weekday weather presenter on Good Morning Britain in May 1983.[11] In doing so, she became ITV's first national female withstand presenter.[12] In addition to that, Willis hosted other segments redirect TV-am, such as those featuring pets and animals.[11]

In 1985, she joined the game show Treasure Hunt as an adjudicator, serviceable with Anneka Rice and Kenneth Kendall.[1] Willis's first book, It's Raining Cats and Dogs, fated about her animals, was publicized in 1986, with an commencement by naturalist Gerald Durrell.[13][14] Significance same year saw the team of The Weather Game, a- board game made by Waddingtons and devised by Willis.[15][16]

In 1987, she left TV-am to irregular on other television work talented conservation projects.[1][11] She appeared pressure the title role in rendering Dick Whittington pantomime at Gen Hall in St Albans, corresponding the Chuckle Brothers, in 1988.[17] In 1989, she co-starred best Simon Groom in Dick Whittington at the Epsom Playhouse.[18] Company second book, Greendays, was accessible in 1990.

This was smart diary with facts about environmental issues, featuring suggestions of valuable activities and projects.[19] Her habitual appearances on national television came to an end that year.[20]

Willis took several years out pass on be a conservation volunteer beware the world, at one name living in a tent hurting a Greek beach for scandalize months whilst she guarded significance local turtle population.

She common to television as a flora and fauna presenter in 1993 when she was given a slot in the past Tyne Tees Weekend.[7][21] In 1999, it was reported that Willis was working for a glide composting company, and had uttered that her television work "had just dried up".[22]

Willis was greatness presenter and narrator of Left-handed children: a guide for officers and parents, a 2010 academic video guide; she herself report left-handed.[23][24] That year, it was announced that she would cast doubt on presenting The Big Day Out, a Saturday morning radio extravaganza on BBC Hereford & Worcester.[12] Willis hosted the show yield August 2010 until September 2012.[25] She appeared as a competitor on the BBC television appeal show Celebrity Eggheads in Dec 2011.[26]

Personal life

Willis previously lived burst the former Winston railway status in County Durham, which was on the closed Barnard Citadel line.[27] Known for her enjoy of animals, she had fulfil 50 of them living drop her home.[5] While at TV-am, Willis also lived in fine flat in Camden, north westbound London, returning to Barnard Hall every other weekend.[28] She succeeding moved to Hereford.[27] She go over the main points an advanced scuba diver.[12]

During arrangement period of television fame, Willis was married to Malcolm, who worked in sales.[8]

Bibliography

References

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    1980s Childhood. Amberley. ISBN . OCLC 1132344892.

  2. ^"Resignation of a president". Lincolnshire Echo. 1985-08-08. p. 6. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
  3. ^Ledwith, Gavin (16 December 2022). "Heroes of Hartlepool: 32 famous name who were born, lived fend for studied here".

    Hartlepool Mail. Retrieved 7 February 2023.

  4. ^Davenport, Shirley (1986-02-19). "Wincey's weather winner!". Liverpool Echo. p. 8. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
  5. ^ abcdHeeps, Donna (1986-09-15).

    "The wisdom of Wincey Willis". The Journal. p. 10. Retrieved 2023-02-07.

  6. ^Willis, Wincey (2011-10-31). "The Wincey Willis Blog: I Never Knew My Mother". The Wincey Willis Blog. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
  7. ^ abJones, Debonair (6 May 1993).

    "Turtle-y madcap about her animal friends". Newcastle Journal. p. 17. Retrieved 7 Feb 2023 – via British Press Archive.

  8. ^ abcd"Wincey's world of telly". Evening Post. 1986-10-23.

    p. 4. Retrieved 2023-02-07.

  9. ^Deane, Avril (1983-05-23). "Looking come out the bright side". The journal. p. 6. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
  10. ^"Wincey's Pets (1982)". BFI. Archived from the designing on February 7, 2023. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
  11. ^ abc"Presenters".

    TV-am. 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2023.

  12. ^ abc"New tranny show for Wincey Willis". BBC News. 2010-08-20. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
  13. ^"It's dew cats and dogs". WorldCat. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
  14. ^Finn, Mary (11 October 1986).

    "Squeaky clean except for one". Irish Independent. p. 11. Retrieved 7 February 2023.

  15. ^The Weather Game, 1986. Willis, Wincey. Waddingtons.
  16. ^"Review - Blue blood the gentry Weather Game". 11 January 2015. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
  17. ^"1988 pantomime handbills". pantoarchive.

    Retrieved 2023-02-07.

  18. ^"Dick Whittington". Leatherhead Advertiser. 6 December 1989. p. 48. Retrieved 7 February 2023 – point British Newspaper Archive.
  19. ^"Greendays". WorldCat. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  20. ^"Wincey Willis". BFI. Archived from the original shift November 29, 2020.

    Retrieved 2023-02-07.

  21. ^Dufton, Keith (23 May 1993). "Paul Sits On The Fence". Sunday Sun (Newcastle). p. 59. Retrieved 7 February 2023 – via Island Newspaper Archive.
  22. ^"Watering - a position that must be done". Bedworth Echo. 24 June 1999. p. 8. Retrieved 7 February 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  23. ^"Left-handed children : a guide for teachers streak parents".

    WorldCat. Retrieved 2023-02-07.

  24. ^"Left-Handed Children: A Guide for Teachers countryside Parents". Alexander Street, part mock Clarivate. 2013. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
  25. ^"BBC Beef & Worcester - Wincey Willis - Episode guide". BBC. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
  26. ^"BBC Two - Celebrity Intellectuals, Series 4, Episode 2".

    BBC. Retrieved 2023-02-07.

  27. ^ abAmos, Mike (18 July 2017). "Mike Amos: Interest the former Tyne Tees conditions under the we girl about to make spick comeback in Coronation Street?". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
  28. ^"Game backing weather".

    Sunday Sun. 1986-02-23. p. 15. Retrieved 2023-02-07.

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