Who is Anthea Turner? The Real Dirty Dancing star

ANTHEA Turner is a well-known presenter who’s been on our telly screens for many years but has seen her rocky love life overshadow her career in recent years.

However, the TV personality is making her telly comeback on E4’s The Real Dirty Dancing.

Who is Anthea Turner and how old is she?

Anthea Millicent Turner was born on May 25, 1960 which makes her 61-years-old

She is a television presenter and writer who was is best for Blue Peter.

She was one of three daughters born to her parents Brian and Jean Turner but her sister Ruth died at the age of 15.

Anthea began her career as a runner at BBC Radio Stoke and soon joined the breakfast show alongside presenter Bruno Brookes.

What TV shows Anthea Turner been in?

Anthea presented Top of the Pops from October 1988 to May 1991, famously hosted Blue Peter from 1992 until 1994 and then became the GMTV presenter from 1994 to 1996.

Anthea was also a host on National Lottery Live from 1994 till 1996 when she defected to ITV after landing travel show, Wish You Were Here…?

She went on to release workout videos Anthea Turner Body Basics (1996) and Anthea Turner: Tone, Lift and Condition: The Inch Buster in 1999 which were produced and distributed by Grant Bovey.

Anthea also competed in Dancing On Ice in 2013 before taking part in Channel 4’s The Jump in 2014 as well as Celebrities in Solidity in 2018.

Is Anthea Turner married and does she have children?

Anthea left her first husband, DJ Peter Powell, for/ Grant Bovey in 1998 after they had been married for eight years.

Bovey left his wife Della with whom he had three children.

Anthea married Grant in 2000 and they featured the famous ‘Flakegate’ incident where they posed with Cadbury chocolate bars for a society magazine.

However, Grant went on to cheat on her with then 24-year-old socialite Zoe de Mallet Morgan and they divorced in 2015.

Anthea got engaged to tycoon Mark Armstrong in 2019.

The English presenter does not have any children of her own.

What is Anthea Turner’s net worth?

Anthea reportedly has a net worth of over £15 million.

The presenter was once the second highest paid female television presenter in the UK after legend Cilla Black.

Anthea once lived in a 57-acre, 10 million Surrey estate which had a garden helipad, an outdoor pool, a polo pitch and stables.

But the star has since downsized to a flat in Richmond.