The popular BBC series is now on its 46th series and has seen six presenters travel up and down the country with Fiona Bruce currently at the helm of the series since 2008. Rippon began her career presenting news programmes in South West England before moving to BBC One’s Nine O’Clock News as a regular presenter in 1975. She went on to present a variety of TV shows including Top Gear, the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977 and Channel 4’s The Big Breakfast. More recently, she hosted BBC’s Rip Off Britain alongside Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville, as well as BBC’s Holiday Hit Squad alongside…
