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Anneka Rice
ANNEKA RICE experience on television lends her to being ideally suited to hosting any awards ceremony.
In the Beginning
Anneka started her career at the BBC as a trainee working for The World Service on "The World Today". Aged 19, after two years of production experience, she resigned from the BBC and bought a one−way ticket to Hong Kong where she spent the next three years working for a public relations agency by day, presenting the news on TVB Pearl in the evening and dubbing kung−fu movies well into the night. She produced a successful book, "A Children's Guide to Hong Kong" and also a weekly motoring show for RTHK called "Wheelbase".
At the age of 22 she shot to fame in this country as the sky−runner in Channel 4's "Treasure Hunt". This firmly established her as Britain's Action Girl and during the 80s and 90s she was rarely off our TV screens. She presented "Sporting Chance", TVAM, "Driving Force", "Wish You Were Here", "Capital Woman", "Combat","Holiday" and numerous other shows.
Challenge Anneka
She went on to devise the award−winning "Challenge Anneka" for BBC−l, juggling Romanian orphanages, soup kitchens and Malawi refugee camps with raising a young family.
In 1995, after completing 61 Challenges all over the world, Anneka decided to change her life completely and took an extended sabbatical to raise her children and study at Chelsea College of Art. During this time she totally dropped out of public life − so much so that Madame Tussauds melted down her waxwork model and the rose named after her was withdrawn.
She relatively recently returned to the public eye, playing her first drama role in the BBC drama "Absolute Power" with Stephen Fry and presented "Dinner Doctors" and "The Wright Stuff" for C5 and "A Brush With the Wild" for ITV. She has appeared on "QI" and "Graham Norton" and developed the "Challenge" programme for ABC in America with Erin Brockavich taking on her role. Last year also saw a successful run in "The Vagina Monologues".
Her radio work includes "The Waiting Game" for Radio 4, a nine−part series on pregnancy; "Start the Week" and "Loose Ends" and she played herself in "The Archers" when the residents of Ambridge challenged Anneka to renovate their village hall. She has also been a regular stand−in on Radio 2. She does travel writing when she needs a holiday and paints nudes when she can persuade anyone to take their clothes off. Anneka has most recently been seen presenting "Sunday Feast" on ITV, and returned to our screens shortly with three very special new episodes of "Challenge Anneka".
