1. Denise Robertson made her television debut as the presenter of the Junior Advice Line segment of the BBC's Breakfast Time programme in 1985, though she is best known as the resident agony aunt on the ITV show This Morning from its first broadcast on 3 October 1988 until her death.
Denise Robertson then progressed to the position of medical secretary and later became a counsellor.
Denise Robertson won a BBC competition to write a play and became an agony aunt on Metro Radio in Newcastle.
Denise Robertson featured as a love and relationships pundit on Dave Gorman's Important Astrology Experiment in 2002.
Denise Robertson made regular appearances on Channel 5's Big Brother's Bit on the Side.
Denise Robertson was twice widowed; she married Alexander Inkster "Alex" Denise Robertson.
Denise Robertson then married her childhood friend Bryan Thubron in 1997.
In 1998, Denise Robertson was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of County Durham.
Denise Robertson was given the Freedom of the City of Sunderland in 2006 and appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the Birthday Honours that year for "services to Broadcasting and to Charity".
Denise Robertson died on 31 March 2016, aged 83, at the Royal Marsden Hospital, London after being diagnosed in early 2016 with pancreatic cancer.
Denise Robertson made the diagnosis public in February 2016 on the television show This Morning after being absent from her usual posting as agony aunt.
Denise Robertson's funeral took place on 13 April 2016 at Sunderland Minster, and she was buried in Sunderland Cemetery in Grangetown.