Anne Diamond

Anne Margaret Diamond (born 8 September 1954) is a British journalist, broadcaster, and children's health campaigner.

She presently hosts the weekend breakfast show on GB News with Stephen Dixon as her co-presenter.

She hosted Good Morning Britain for TV-am and Good Morning with Anne and Nick for BBC One, with Nick Owen.

In 2023, she was made an OBE for her service to children's health and is the first non-medic to hold the Royal College of Paediatrics College Medal.

Diamond was born on 8 September 1954 in Birmingham, Warwickshire.

Her parents were of Irish ancestry, although her father was brought up by his mother in Greenock, Scotland after his father went to Canada.

She was brought up in Malvern, Worcestershire, and she attended Worcester Grammar School for Girls.

Diamond worked at a Butlins holiday camp as a redcoat and chalet-maid.

She then began her career as a journalist on the Bridgwater Mercury and Bournemouth Evening Echo.

Diamond began her television career with BBC West in Bristol, before moving over to ATV Today as a reporter and newsreader in 1979.

When ATV became Central Television in 1982, she was paired up with Nick Owen, to present the new East Midlands edition of Central News.

The launch of the Nottingham-based service was initially delayed for a month, but then postponed indefinitely.

With no end in sight to the dispute, Diamond left to join ITN before re-joining the BBC, becoming a reporter on the nightly programme Nationwide and a presenter on BBC News After Noon.

On Monday 6 June 1983, Diamond joined TV-am.

Greg Dyke, the newly appointed programme director, spoke with Nick Owen about replacements for sacked presenters Anna Ford and Angela Rippon.

Owen suggested Diamond, and later that evening they met in a pub.

Six weeks later Diamond joined the station.

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.

The programme looked behind the scenes of various television programmes and interviewed various personalities from in front and behind the camera.

In the late 1990s, she presented the breakfast show on the London radio station LBC, variously with Nicholas Lloyd and Tommy Boyd.

In 1991, following the death of her third son Sebastian, Diamond successfully campaigned for research into cot death.

The campaign, which she co-founded, is reported to have cut the UK's incidence of cot death from over 2,000 a year to approximately 300.

She has also worked for LBC, Radio Oxford, BBC London, BBC Berkshire, and is a regular columnist for the various UK newspapers.

Diamond was rejoined with Nick Owen to present the BBC daytime show Good Morning with Anne and Nick, which ran four years against ITV's This Morning from 1992 till 1996.

After a few months presenting her own lunchtime show in 1999, she left the station.

In 2001, she spent a week on The Wright Stuff, and was welcomed back in 2003 after Celebrity Big Brother and has been there to the present day.

In 2002, Diamond took part in the second series of Celebrity Big Brother, and was the second person to be evicted.

In 2002, she also returned to television, appearing in Celebrity Big Brother.

Since 2003, she has made regular appearances on Channel 5's topical discussion show The Wright Stuff and now its successor, Jeremy Vine.

In 2003 Diamond became a regular panellist and stand-in presenter on The Wright Stuff, and from 2018 on its successor Jeremy Vine.

In October 2004, she joined BBC Radio Oxford, presenting the weekday breakfast programme.

In 2006, she left BBC Radio Oxford, presenting her last breakfast programme on 17 March 2006, her replacement being Sybil Ruscoe.

Much had been made on the breakfast programme of "Diamond's Dieting Buddies", a scheme whereby Diamond and listeners to the station in 2006 who wanted to lose weight would give one another moral support.

During 2008, Diamond became involved in co-developing a jewellery range, which she marketed on shopping channel QVC under her own name brand.

Diamond presented the mid-morning programme on BBC Radio Berkshire and kept a regular blog on the BBC website until 2015.

She 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.

She departed the show in August 2018, in line with her new role as the sole stand-in presenter for Jeremy Vine.

In 2018, she appeared in Channel 5's Costa Del Celebrity.

Diamond was a regular reviewer of the newspapers for Sky News on Sunday mornings.

In 2022, Diamond joined GB News to host the weekend breakfast show with Stephen Dixon.