Anne Margaret Diamond was born on 8 September 1954 and is a British journalist, broadcaster, and children's health campaigner.
29 Facts About Anne Diamond
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Anne Diamond hosted Good Morning Britain for TV-am and Good Morning with Anne and Nick for BBC One, with Nick Owen.
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In 1991, following the death of her third son Sebastian, Diamond successfully campaigned for research into cot death.
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Anne Diamond has worked for LBC, Radio Oxford, BBC London, BBC Berkshire, and is a regular columnist for the various UK newspapers.
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Anne Diamond was born on 8 September 1954 in Birmingham, Warwickshire.
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Anne Diamond's parents were of Irish ancestry, although her father was brought up by his mother in Greenock, Scotland after his father went to Canada.
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Anne Diamond worked at a Butlins holiday camp as a redcoat and chalet-maid.
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Anne Diamond then began her career as a journalist on the Bridgwater Mercury and Bournemouth Evening Echo.
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Anne Diamond began her television career with BBC West in Bristol, before moving over to ATV Today as a reporter and newsreader in 1979.
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Anne Diamond left TV-am in 1990, to work full-time on TV Weekly, first produced by TVS and later by Topical Television, which she had presented since 1989.
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In 2002, Anne Diamond took part in the second series of Celebrity Big Brother, and was the second person to be evicted.
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In 2003 Anne Diamond became a regular panellist and stand-in presenter on The Wright Stuff, and from 2018 on its successor Jeremy Vine.
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Anne Diamond joined ITV's lunchtime chat show Loose Women as a regular panellist on 14 October 2016 after impressing bosses when she previously appeared the week before as a guest.
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Anne Diamond departed the show in August 2018, in line with her new role as the sole stand-in presenter for Jeremy Vine.
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Anne Diamond was a regular reviewer of the newspapers for Sky News on Sunday mornings.
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In 2022, Anne Diamond joined GB News to host the weekend breakfast show with Stephen Dixon.
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Anne Diamond presented the mid-morning programme on BBC Radio Berkshire and kept a regular blog on the BBC website until 2015.
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Anne Diamond has appeared in pantomimes including playing the Wicked Queen in Snow White at Stoke-on-Trent in 2005, alongside Ken Morley and Sooty.
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Anne Diamond became involved in raising awareness of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, after her son Sebastian died from the syndrome in 1991.
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Anne Diamond fronted "Back to Sleep", a campaign telling parents to ensure that babies slept on their backs.
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Anne Diamond was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, the only time it had been awarded to a non-medic.
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Anne Diamond spoke out over the cot death and baby-swap storyline in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders, featuring characters Kat Moon and Ronnie Branning.
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On 28 March 2008, in an article for the Daily Mail tabloid newspaper, Anne Diamond contributed to an article concerning violence in video games where she is quoted as saying that the game Resident Evil 4 "shouldn't be allowed to be sold, even to adults".
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Anne Diamond has been featured in numerous stories in the British tabloid press since the mid-1980s.
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Anne Diamond gave detailed accounts of intrusion by journalists into her life and her dealings with tabloid newspapers.
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Anne Diamond was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to public health and charity.
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Anne Diamond is the first non-medic to be awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
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Anne Diamond began an affair with Mike Hollingsworth in the mid-1980s while he was married to his first wife.
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In June 2023, Anne Diamond announced that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer.