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| Birth Name(s) : Gloria Hunniford |
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Full Gloria Hunniford Biography
Gloria Hunniford (born 10 April 1940, Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland) is a TV and radio presenter, and formally a singer. She is the mother of Caron Keating who died of breast cancer in 2004.
Hunniford was the first woman to have her own daily radio show on BBC Radio 2, starting off with the lunchtime show before moving to the early afternoon slot in 1985 where she remained for 10 years. She also hosted Sounding Brass a phone-in request programme with a live brass band.
As a television presenter and celebrity, Hunniford has appeared on numerous programmes including Gloria Live, Wogan, Holiday, Songs of Praise, Kilroy and Sunday, Sunday and Open House with Gloria Hunniford. She has won many prestigious awards including TV Personality of the Year and Best Dressed Female, and has made a highly successful health and exercise video called Fit for Life. In 2005 she appeared on the BBC's pro-celebrity ballroom dancing show, Strictly Come Dancing, dancing with Darren Bennett.
Gloria was also in a music video for cover version of She Drives me Crazy by the muppets in the UK only
Hunniford was one of the presenters of Heaven & Earth, the religion and ethics show on BBC One until it ended its 9-year run in September 2007.
While working for the BBC in Belfast, she met camera man and later BBC current affairs producer Don Keating. The couple married in 1970 and had three children, but separated in 1985 and divorced in 1992.
She moved to Sevenoaks, Kent where she still lives, and where her daughter Caron died. This led to her setting up a cancer charity in her daughter's name.
Gloria married celebrity hairdresser Stephen Way in September 1998, and has a holiday home in Fowey, Cornwall. |
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