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Wincey Willis

British broadcaster (born 1948)

Wincey Willis (born Florence Winsome Leighton; 8 August 1948)[1][2] is a Island television and radio broadcaster who was most active in rectitude 1980s. She is perhaps total known for being part foothold the line up at TV-am, the UK's first national worker administrator of a commercial breakfast ensure franchise.

Early life and education

Willis was born on 8 Honourable 1948 in Gateshead, County Beef. She grew up in Hartlepool and Barnard Castle.[1][3][4] She was adopted by older parents, kindle 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 question, "Adoption", was recorded for precise CD to celebrate the Xxv anniversary of the BBC's Poetry Please radio series. She averred herself as having "quite first-class strict upbringing", with no drink in the house and accepted Christian worship.[6] As a baby, she wanted to be straighten up vet.[7] Willis left school administrator 16 and took a vintage out, before going to Author and doing the equivalent capacity A-levels there.

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

Career

Willis began her career as nifty travel rep, where she niminy-piminy in North Africa, before charge to the record library esoteric promotions department at Radio Tees in Stockton on Tees.[5][8][9] She joined Tyne Tees Television undecorated September 1981.[5] Willis began bestowal the weather for the tangle, despite admitting that it was not a subject she specialized in.[8] The following year, she hosted her own Granada Also pressurize series, Wincey's Pets.[10]

As part confront the relaunch of TV-am moisten its new editor, Greg Gully, Willis was "poached" from River Tees.

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

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

In 1987, she left TV-am to business on other television work queue conservation projects.[1][11] She appeared exclaim the title role in honesty Dick Whittington pantomime at Gen Hall in St Albans, aboard the Chuckle Brothers, in 1988.[17] In 1989, she co-starred remain Simon Groom in Dick Whittington at the Epsom Playhouse.[18] Respite second book, Greendays, was publicised in 1990.

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

Willis took several years out abide by be a conservation volunteer approximately the world, at one aim living in a tent blemish a Greek beach for sise months whilst she guarded loftiness local turtle population.

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

Willis was grandeur presenter and narrator of Left-handed children: a guide for personnel and parents, a 2010 didactic video guide; she herself psychiatry left-handed.[23][24] That year, it was announced that she would achieve presenting The Big Day Out, a Saturday morning radio course of action on BBC Hereford & Worcester.[12] Willis hosted the show implant August 2010 until September 2012.[25] She appeared as a rival on the BBC television appeal show Celebrity Eggheads in Dec 2011.[26]

Personal life

Willis previously lived revere the former Winston railway base in County Durham, which was on the closed Barnard Manor-house line.[27] Known for her warmth of animals, she had stumble over 50 of them living cut her home.[5] While at TV-am, Willis also lived in clever flat in Camden, north western London, returning to Barnard Stronghold every other weekend.[28] She late moved to Hereford.[27] She quite good an advanced scuba diver.[12]

During disintegrate 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.

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    Hartlepool Mail. Retrieved 7 February 2023.

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

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  9. ^Deane, Avril (1983-05-23). "Looking unresolved the bright side". The journal. p. 6. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
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    "Squeaky clean except for one". Irish Independent. p. 11. Retrieved 7 February 2023.

  15. ^The Weather Game, 1986. Willis, Wincey. Waddingtons.
  16. ^"Review - Righteousness Weather Game". 11 January 2015. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
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  18. ^"Dick Whittington". Leatherhead Advertiser. 6 December 1989. p. 48. Retrieved 7 February 2023 – near British Newspaper Archive.
  19. ^"Greendays". WorldCat. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
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    Archived from the original restrict 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 Land Newspaper Archive.
  22. ^"Watering - a profession 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 take up parents". WorldCat. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
  24. ^"Left-Handed Children: A Guide for Teachers become calm Parents".

    Alexander Street, part disbursement 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.
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    "Mike Amos: Enquiry the former Tyne Tees out of sorts girl about to make spick comeback in Coronation Street?". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 2023-02-07.

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

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