Patricia Ann Coldwell was a British television and radio presenter and journalist.
11 Facts About Pattie Coldwell
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Pattie Coldwell was born on 14 May 1952 in Clitheroe, Lancashire, the daughter of Eunice and Gordon Ellison Pattie Coldwell, a policeman.
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Pattie Coldwell started her career in local television on Granada TV as a reporter and presenter in the 1970s.
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Pattie Coldwell progressed to nationally networked programmes, such as Nationwide, Open Air, and, on BBC Radio 4, You and Yours.
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Pattie Coldwell presented several DIY series, such as On The House, for the BBC, and Doing It Up, for Meridian, which she presented with her husband.
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Pattie Coldwell was an occasional guest panellist, in the late 1980s, on Through the Keyhole.
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In 1997, Pattie Coldwell hosted the interview show Espresso, on Channel 5, and in 2001, she joined Loose Women, on ITV.
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Pattie Coldwell married presenter Tony Kerner in 1991 in Camden, London.
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Pattie Coldwell's death resulted from a brain tumour at the age of 50; she had had breast cancer previously, being first diagnosed in 1997 and then in 1998.
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Pattie Coldwell died on 17 October 2002 in hospital in Newbury, Berkshire.
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Pattie Coldwell continued to work until her death, and in her final months wrote about how she lived with terminal cancer in her Daily Express column.