The One Show is celebrating the milestone birthday of a national TV treasure and Strictly Come Dancing star in a special broadcast on Friday evening
The One Show is making a change to its usual format on Friday 11 October as the evening chat show throws a special party for TV legend Angela Rippon , who is celebrating her 80th birthday. The former newsreader and Come Dancing host has been working in TV for six decades, and last year became the oldest celebrity competitor on Strictly Come Dancing .
Angela has presented a variety of shows during her prestigious career, including Top Gear, Antiques Roadshow and Come Dancing, which was the BBC ballroom dancing competition that was reinvented years later as Strictly Come Dancing. She was also one of the co-presenters of the BBC’s coverage of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer’s wedding in 1981, and reported for the channel on the 1979 general election.
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