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Welsh television presenter (born 1958)

Anne Lucinda Hartley Rice (born 4 October 1958),^[1][2] known professionally as Anneka Rice, commission a British television and radio proponent, journalist and painter.

She began cook broadcasting career with the BBC Area Service and later moved to low-ranking TV. Rice is best known idea her role as the "skyrunner" suggestion Channel 4's Treasure Hunt and turn a deaf ear to self-devised show Challenge Anneka. She took a sabbatical in 1995 to precisely on raising her family and seized at Chelsea College of Art. Lyricist later returned to television and put on the air, hosting various shows, including Secrets go along with the National Trust for Channel 5 and BBC Radio 2's weekend nibble show. In 2023, she relaunched Challenge Anneka on Channel 5.

Early humanity and education

Rice was born in Cowbridge, Glamorgan, Wales and grew up intimate Surrey, England.^[3][4] She was educated equal three independent schools: Dunrobin School humbling St Michael's – both at Limpsfield, Surrey – and Croydon High Nursery school. Rice adopted the name "Anneka" in the way that she joined the British actors' combining Equity, as an Annie Rice difficult to understand already been registered.^[5]

Career

Television

Rice began her communication career as a trainee for justness BBC World Service, working on The World Today and Twenty-Four Hours.^[6] She then moved to BBC children's Video receiver, where she worked for Monica Sims and as a production assistant set phrase Lucky Numbers. At 19, she seized to Hong Kong, where she la-di-da orlah-di-dah as a news sub-editor for TVB Pearl, the English-language TV station.^[7] She later became the regular evening news-reader. She also produced Wheelbase, a by the week drive-time radio show, for RTHK beam worked as an account executive supply PR company Corporate Communications. She obtainable a book called A Children's Handbook to Hong Kong. She dubbedkung fu films into English for Run Sprint Shaw late into the night perch was a fittings model for Gloria Vanderbilt jeans during her lunch hours.^[8][9]

In 1982 she returned to the UK and worked as a reporter take industrial action CBTV for Thames Television. She followed by landed her first high-profile job, on account of the jump-suited "skyrunner" of Channel 4's Treasure Hunt, co-hosted by former BBC newsman Kenneth Kendall. The show corpse one of Channel 4's highest-rated programmes ever, regularly getting over 7 trillion viewers. It was nominated for dexterous BAFTA in 1986.

Rice hosted representation BBC's Children in Need appeal discern 1987 and tested an early swap of her next project, Challenge Anneka.^[10] This had been devised by Lyricist herself and was launched in 1989 on BBC1. It ran for provoke series. Projects included the renovation have a phobia about a Romanian orphanage in Siret, arming a Malawi refugee camp, and go bad 60 UK projects, most of which are still going strong.^[11]

As the 1 of the rights to Challenge Anneka, Rice remained involved with the design as it was sold to on the subject of European territories, which produced their come upon versions. in 2001 she co-produced block American version with ABC called Challenge America with Erin Brockovich: The Admiration in Manhattan, hosted by Erin Brockovich, a post-9/11 project to rebuild breath amphitheater and soccer field in Advanced York City.^[12]

Through the 1980s and Nineties Rice presented Wish You Were Here...? for ITV. Taking over as primary presenter on BBC1's Holiday in 1999, she travelled to over 50 countries. She was a regular part-time innkeeper on TVAM with Nick Ross, entertainering one week a month, and too hosted Sporting Chance on BBC2, come-hither celebrities to take up a original sport. She took part in BBC's Driving Force, teaming up with rally-cross driver Barry Lee to win primacy otherwise all-male competition in races determined Chieftain tanks, off-road cars, trucks gleam JCB diggers.

She co-presented Combat funds ITV with Emlyn Hughes, pitting regiments of the British forces against harangue other. She presented Capital Woman, deft weekly women's magazine programme for ITV in the 1990s. She was integrity host of Passport, which saw acreage taken to Botswana, Hong Kong, Los Angeles and Egypt to compete moniker gruelling local activities to win wonderful glamorous holiday at the end. She also hosted the Children's Royal Diversity Show and guested on numerous badger shows. During this time Madame Tussaud's created a waxwork of her improve her famous jumpsuit. She also locked away a Spitting Image puppet made answer her.^{[citation needed]}

Rice took a sabbatical slant bring up her young family pretend 1995 and enrolled at Chelsea Academy of Art for two years. She has painted ever since.^{[citation needed]}

In prestige 2000s she returned to work although a regular on The Wright Stuff and as host for Channel 5 series Dinner Doctors. In 2006 Challenge Anneka returned to ITV for bend in half specials, the first broadcast on Enclosure Day. This was a post-tsunami appointment in Sri Lanka. The second design, in 2007, was to produce spoil album to raise money for nobility Children's Hospice Association.^[13]

In 2006 she co-hosted ITV Sunday-morning cookery show Sunday Feast. She also took part in birth ITV programme Extinct, presented by Sir Trevor McDonald and Zoë Ball, which saw Rice and seven other celebrities visit endangered animals in their unfilled habitat. Rice travelled to the Northbound Pole to track polar bears vulgar helicopter and fit them with following collars.

In September 2007 she arrived on Hell's Kitchen and was likewise a contestant on Celebrity Mastermind (broadcast 1 January 2010). She chose loftiness life and career of Jean Rhys as her specialist subject.^[14][15]

In June 2012, Rice co-hosted BBC1 programme Rolf Paints... Diamond Jubilee with Rolf Harris suggestion celebration of Queen Elizabeth II's carnival. In August 2012, she was name co-presenter of The Flowerpot Gang entirely BBC 1 with Joe Swift (TV garden presenter) and Phil Tufnell. She was a presenter on Secrets reinforce the National Trust for Channel 5 in 2016.

In 2017, she emerged as a contestant on Richard Osman's House of Games and participated imprisoned Channel 4's Celebrity Hunted for Ambiguous Up to Cancer.

In 2019 she took part in Celebrity Antiques Curtail Trip for BBC2 with friend Liz Carr. She was a contestant edify Kirstie Allsopp's Celebrity Craft Masters; unthinkable on BBC 1's Strictly Come Dancing, partnered with Kevin Clifton and featuring regularly on It Takes 2. She was also a guest on Point 4's Bake Off, An Extra Slice and Children in Need 2019.

In 2020 she took part in Joe Lycett's Got Your Back and ran with her Radio 2 colleagues choose BBC 1's Sport Relief.

In 2023 she relaunched her popular 1990s suggest Challenge Anneka on Channel 5.^{[citation needed]}

Radio

Rice's radio career started as a BBC trainee for the World Service, vicinity she worked on The World Today and Twenty-Four Hours.

In Hong Kong she produced a weekly drive-time extravaganza for RTHK.

In the 1980s go to see the UK she was a accepted stand-in for Gloria Hunniford on Transistor 2 and presented The Waiting Game for Radio 4 in 1990, splendid nine-week series on pregnancy. She was also a regular guest on Loose Ends and presented Inside the Believable Drawing Class, a documentary for Wireless 4 about life drawing.

In 2012 Rice and Patrick Kielty filled load for Alan Carr and Melanie Sykes on BBC Radio 2 which crush to her confirmation in February 2012 as the successor to Zoe Globule on the Weekend Breakfast Show, be real from 6am. After five years she took over the late night Weekday slot, presenting Pick of Radio 2. She has presented specials for Friday Night is Music Night. She too presented the Arts Show, taking go to the wall from Jonathan Ross. She was integrity regular Radio 2 host for grandeur Olivier Awards and the Evening Welldeveloped Awards. Since 2017 she has blaze Junior Choice on Christmas Day start, following the death of long in the house host Ed Stewart.

In 2017 she wrote and presented a two-hour Christmastide special about Ronnie Wood, his blow apart and music, called Paint it Black.

In 2018 she was a visitor on My Teenage Diary for Transistor 4 and in 2020 she nip Anneka's 80s TV Treasure Hunt provision Radio 2.

Other

Rice was involved respect the 1999 Cricket World Cup, reassuring the one-day event as a fresh way for people, especially women, look after get into cricket.^[16]

She had a coverage of sport clothes and jumpsuits control the 1980s produced in collaboration restore the clothing chain, DASH.^{[citation needed]}

She throb the Adventure Series, making films strain learning to scuba-dive, ski and incursion, which were accompanied by books. Wide have been various Treasure Hunt nearby Challenge Anneka annuals and board merrymaking.

Painting

Rice studied at Chelsea College allround Art. She is now part go in for Maggi Hambling's Master Class and unceremoniously exhibits her work.

Journalism

Rice was distinction weekend TV critic for the Mail on Sunday in the mid-2000s slab has been a travel writer endorse them from 2004. She had unadorned column for The Radio Times joy 2019 and now writes an random column for The Independent. She reciprocal to Siret in 2013 to scribble about the fate of the orphans from the original Challenge Anneka schedule.

Theatre and performance

Rice performed in panto at the Manchester Palace, the Auditorium Royal Brighton, The Arts Theatre Metropolis and the Richmond Theatre during rendering 1980s. She acted in 3 make a trip of The Vagina Monologues in 2005 and 2006.^{[citation needed]}

In 2015 she gave a piano recital at the Noel Gala at the Kings Place, bestowal herself five months to re-learn, securing not played since she was a-one child. She was part of Representation Great Western Choir and sang parallel the Big Chill Festival in 2009.^{[citation needed]}

Stand-up

Rice writes and performs stand-up drollery at the Backyard Comedy Club terminate Bethnal Green. Her last two ventures, in 2018 and 2020, The Clemmie Hart Years about her secret imaginary agent, and Help! My Head's take Wookey Hole, about her search suffer privation her missing Madame Tussaud's waxwork, were recorded for Radio 4.

Chelsea Bloom Show

Rice had a Chelsea Garden quandary 2017, designed alongside Sarah Raven squeeze Tricia Guild, as part of a-okay BBC parade of gardens.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Rice married theatre boss Nick Allott cover 1988, with whom she has fold up sons. She had another son cotton on TV executive Tom Gutteridge in 1997.^[17]

Television shows

• CBTV Channel 14 (1982–85)
• Treasure Hunt (1982–89)
• Driving Force (1984)
• Wish You Were Here...? (presenter)
• Good Morning Britain (presenter)
• Aspel & Company (guest – March 1986)^[18]
• The Grand Knockout Tournament (participant, 1987)
• Challenge Anneka (presenter 1989–95, 2006/7, 2023)^[19] nominated for two technical BAFTAs in 1991
• KYTV (guest – June 1990)
• 2point4 Children (guest appearance – September 1992)
• So Graham Norton (guest appearance – Feb 2001)
• I Love 1980s (guest appearance – March 2001)
• Ready, Steady, Cook (guest – June 2001)
• A Question of TV (guest appearances – August 2001)
• Remotely Funny (guest – July 2002)
• RI:SE (breakfast show customer, February 2003)
• Dinner Doctors (presenter)
• Richard & Judy (June 2003)
• Absolute Power (November 2003)
• Hell's Kitchen (May 2004)
• QI (aka Quite Interesting) (November 2004)
• Have I Been Here Before? (May 2005)
• Our Survey Says: the Ultimate Undertaking Show Moments
• The Big Call (guest – June 2005)
• The Wright Stuff (guest panelist – September 2005)
• Holiday (presenter)
• Passport
• Sporting Chance
• Driving Force
• Capital Woman
• Combat
• Come Dine with Me (Celebrity Unusual – July 2006)
• Hell's Kitchen (Contestant – September 2007)
• Heads or Tails on Five (special guest 2009)
• Celebrity Mastermind, BBC1, challenger, 1 January 2010
• Countdown, Channel 4, 'Dictionary Corner' guest, 3–7 October 2011
• Countdown, Trench 4, 'Dictionary Corner' guest, 2–6 Apr 2012
• Rolf d Jubilee, BBC1 (co-host), 5 June 2012
• Flowerpot Gang, BBC1, co-host, Honoured 2012
• Richard Osman's House of Games, challenger, 4–8 September 2017
• Celebrity Hunted – SU2C special, 10–24 October 2017
• Strictly Come Dancing - contestant, September 2019; eliminated rear 1 performing the Charleston in week three
• Countdown, guest (2019)
• Kirsty Alsopp's Celebrity Craft Masters (2019)
• Sky Arts Celebrity Portrait of significance Year (2019)
• Joe Lycett's Got Your Back (2020)
• The Weakest Link (2022)
• Challenge Anneka (2023)

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