Broadcaster Angela Rippon looks back: ‘I want to age disgracefully. It’s much more fun’ | Life and style

Born in 1944 in Pleimouth, Angela Ripon is a British journalist, a news launcher and an introduction. Her career began at the age of 17 as a photo for Western morning news. In 1975, the first journalist has always provided National BBC’s national news; It has already hosted Top Gear, Antiques Roadshow and Rip-FF BRISIN We forget no attractiveness.

This picture has been taken For the eighties of the last century, LP UP shape and dance. Usually, I would have become naked feet if I was dancing, but the producers asked me to wear small pink shoes, which seemed inconsistent. However, I was very happy with this outfit. What is wonderful is that I still meet women asking me, “Have I got a backup?

At that time, I was married and lived in Devon. I had a horse, dogs, two cats and a large garden. I was about to stop reading the news as I would have become one of the “Five Five” on ITV TV, alongside Michael Parkinson, David Frost, Anna Ford and Robert Ki. We have not eaten breakfast in Britain before, so the exhibition felt very revolutionary. However, everything ended with tears because they decided that they could not bear the costs of Anna and I, which is crazy. As we discovered later, we were the cheapest five. But they still get rid of us.

For a whole year after this disaster, I thought my career had ended. In fact, one of the BBC CEO is recorded, “Angela Ripon will never work with the BBC again.” At that time, there was no way if you worked for ITV, you can also work for the BBC. Then, one day, my agent called and said, “Angela, how do you want to work in America?” I was transferred to Boston and became an art and entertainment correspondent for Whdh-TV. I finally returned home, armed with Amy and won it in a documentary film she made, and she was able to work again. That entire period was very messy, sometimes scary, but exciting. What would I do if it was the end of my career? You just picked up a camera and applied for jobs as a photo image again.

Esther Rantzen, a great companion, and her husband, Dizmond, when he was alive, used to say, “I don’t know anyone who has invented themselves as much as you are.” I do not see her re -invention. I have long been present, and as TV evolved, I was lucky to be able to move with him. Take, for example, when it appeared on the MERECAMBE and Wise Christmas show in 1976. Some people asked the press, “How can you return to reading the news again?” If you go back to the office wearing the earrings and Dunkli’s earrings, then there is a problem. But just because news leaders broadcast death and depression, this does not mean that this is from us. There is another aspect of our characters, and you may have opened the door to show that we are all human.

Whatever you are Or what I was doing, I would like to see my father every week. There were jobs that would not allow my mother, Edna, with knowledge. Like when I went to dive with great white sharks. Or when I went to Northern Ireland – a dangerous place to work in the 1970s.

In 2003, I just got out of the air in LBC when I noticed a lot of missed calls from my mother. When she called her, she said: “Angela, you should be very brave, but your father died.” He had an enormous heart attack. My parents have been married 62 years ago and joined the hip. His death was a big blow to my mother. After that, she began to suffer from transient hypothetical attacks – small strikes – and I think this raised her dementia. Gradually, her behavior has become more wrong and her personality has changed. It became a terrorist and do not trust people. She used to have mood bursts and says the most terrible things. In 2004, one of the doctor told us that she was suffering from vascular dementia and was retreating for about a year. She died in 2009.

It took me a long time to realize how this disease would affect it and what it meant for me as its main care presenter. Many people did not talk publicly in the first decade of the twentieth century, and I remember that I have made clear an interview by a person from Daily Mail. The journalist told me, “Do you not feel embarrassed to talk about this?” I said, “No, why should I be? This is a disease in the brain. It is the brain that eats and dies.” There was a stigma at that time, and it is very important that we do not remain the dementia hidden.

I had to learn quickly that you could not offend when someone with dementia says something harsh. Instead, you work with it. There was one occasion when my mother was in the hospital and I was able to hear it before I was entered. She was screaming and becoming very offensive to the nurse, who was trying to take blood pressure. I walked and said, “Mummy, I play nice.” She started screaming at me, “Get me out of this place. What put me here?” She allowed her to get angry for a short time, then I said, “Mummy, I just came from the house, and I must tell you, that the camellia looks amazing at the moment. The garden is great.” This led to the bottom, and asked the nurse to bring her a cup of tea. When she came back, my mother said, “Angela, did you meet my young friend here? She is the most beautiful nurse in the wing.”

When it comes to ageI decided to want to work. It is more fun. Age is just a number on a piece of paper and I have to stay on my job. Her Majesty covered the Queen’s funeral for Australian TV and I was live for more than 14 hours. We had to start at two in the morning. You can’t do it if you are not fit.

How do I stay in good condition? I still dance – go to the ballet separation, and I do Pilates. Yesterday, on tennis, there were four of us playing the double and I was the youngest. We played for two hours. The diet is also important. I have a fanatic of dairy products, so I have hot water with lemon, herbal tea, or maybe just a cup of black coffee, a lot of water.

When this was taken, I didn’t expect to work in 80 years. The accountant laughs all the time because since I was 50 years old, I was saying, “Well, I may not work next year.” Of course, there will be a pension point in it. The moment I think, “Ah, to scream loudly, I don’t really want to do this today”, I will know that it has ended. Or maybe the phone will stop ringing. What then? I will adopt a dog. One mature – there is no use in having a puppy because I am single and I must die before that. But now there is no need.

I still wake up every morning, extend for 10 minutes, and I think, “Excellent. Another wonderful day.”