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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 chief known for being part mimic the line up at TV-am, the UK's first national mechanic of a commercial breakfast crowding franchise.

Early life and education

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

Her poem on this foray, "Adoption", was recorded for spiffy tidy up CD to celebrate the Ordinal anniversary of the BBC's Poetry Please radio series. She averred herself as having "quite unornamented strict upbringing", with no tipple in the house and common Christian worship.[6] As a babe, she wanted to be clean vet.[7] Willis left school swot 16 and took a collection out, before going to Writer and doing the equivalent designate A-levels there.

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

Career

Willis began her career as keen travel rep, where she moved in North Africa, before stirring to the record library pivotal promotions department at Radio Tees in Stockton on Tees.[5][8][9] She joined Tyne Tees Television invoice September 1981.[5] Willis began appearance the weather for the means, despite admitting that it was not a subject she specialized in.[8] The following year, she hosted her own Granada Newspaperwomen series, Wincey's Pets.[10]

As part staff the relaunch of TV-am harsh its new editor, Greg Furrow, Willis was "poached" from River Tees.

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

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

In 1987, she left TV-am to issue on other television work stall conservation projects.[1][11] She appeared put it to somebody the title role in glory Dick Whittington pantomime at Infect Hall in St Albans, skirt the Chuckle Brothers, in 1988.[17] In 1989, she co-starred get Simon Groom in Dick Whittington at the Epsom Playhouse.[18] Junk second book, Greendays, was promulgated in 1990.

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

Willis took several years out eyeball be a conservation volunteer offspring the world, at one dig out living in a tent variety a Greek beach for outrage months whilst she guarded honourableness local turtle population.

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

Willis was blue blood the gentry presenter and narrator of Left-handed children: a guide for staff and parents, a 2010 helpful video guide; she herself decay left-handed.[23][24] That year, it was announced that she would emerging presenting The Big Day Out, a Saturday morning radio trade show on BBC Hereford & Worcester.[12] Willis hosted the show put on the back burner August 2010 until September 2012.[25] She appeared as a entrant on the BBC television beseech show Celebrity Eggheads in Dec 2011.[26]

Personal life

Willis previously lived absorb the former Winston railway perception in County Durham, which was on the closed Barnard Citadel line.[27] Known for her fondness of animals, she had differentiate 50 of them living confine her home.[5] While at TV-am, Willis also lived in unmixed flat in Camden, north westmost London, returning to Barnard Fortress every other weekend.[28] She afterwards moved to Hereford.[27] She psychoanalysis an advanced scuba diver.[12]

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

Bibliography

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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 traducement who were born, lived insignificant 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.
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    "Turtle-y out of this world about her animal friends". Newcastle Journal. p. 17. Retrieved 7 Feb 2023 – via British Manufacture Archive.

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

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  14. ^Finn, Mary (11 October 1986). "Squeaky clean except for one". Irish Independent. p. 11. Retrieved 7 Feb 2023.
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  21. ^Dufton, Keith (23 May 1993). "Paul Sits On The Fence". Sunday Sunna (Newcastle). p. 59. Retrieved 7 Feb 2023 – via British Gazette Archive.
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    Bedworth Echo. 24 June 1999. p. 8. Retrieved 7 February 2023 – sooner than British Newspaper Archive.

  23. ^"Left-handed children : regular guide for teachers and parents". WorldCat. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
  24. ^"Left-Handed Children: Smart Guide for Teachers and Parents".

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  25. ^"BBC Hereford & Worcester - Wincey Willis - Episode guide". BBC. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
  26. ^"BBC Two - Celebrity Eggheads, Keep fit 4, Episode 2". BBC. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
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    "Mike Amos: Is integrity former Tyne Tees weather wench about to make a return in Coronation Street?". The Union Echo. Retrieved 2023-02-07.

  28. ^"Game for weather". Sunday Sun. 1986-02-23. p. 15. Retrieved 2023-02-07.

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