Gloria Hunniford: My Life

As one of Britain's best known TV and radio personalities, Gloria Hunniford requires little introduction. From chat show and current affairs host to presenter of consumer and lifestyle programmes, Gloria is one of the few broadcasters who can genuinely claim to embrace the spectrum of popular culture. Now, having just been made an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours and celebrating 70 years in show-business, Gloria is ready to tell her story. Gloria has had many lives - starting out as a singer aged seven alongside her father in a troupe of entertainers, before taking the brave step to travel and live in Canada as a teenager, which broadened her horizons in a way she never could have imagined, coming from a religiously divided Northern Ireland. Back home at the age of twenty, following the release of her first record that went into the Ulster charts, she was offered a job at BBC Belfast, which started her on a career trajectory she could only have dreamed about in those early years singing in front of her Bakelite radio, hoping someone would hear her. Working through bombs, bullets and barricades, and the turmoil of the Troubles in the seventies, Gloria soon became a firm fixture on both radio and TV, especially with her nightly show, Good Evening Ulster. It wasn't long before Gloria's charm, wit and tenacity were spotted over the Irish sea, becoming the first ever woman to have a daily radio programme in 1982, presenting on BBC Radio 2 continuously for the next 13 years. Since then, Gloria's career has blossomed, and she has become widely regarded as one of the most respected names in the industry. In My Life Gloria will, for the first time, explore her life from her humble beginnings to the much-loved national treasure she is today.

Gloria Hunniford is one of the most prolific and talented British broadcasters, with a career spanning seven decades. Gloria currently presents the BBC consumer programs Rip-Off Britain, Rip-Off Britain: Food, Rip-Off Britain: Holidays, and Food: Truth Or Scare. She regularly appears on This Morning and The One Show as well as being one of the current presenters of Loose Women for ITV. Gloria has won many prestigious awards during her long career, the latest being her OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2017. Other awards include TV Personality of the Year, Radio Personality of the Year and Best Dressed Female, as well as the Television and Radio Industries Club Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. She is a patron of a number of charities and dedicates much time to the causes she supports including the one closest to her heart, The Caron Keating Foundation, which Gloria founded in honour of her daughter Caron who passed away in 2004 after a seven-year battle with breast cancer; a foundation that supports all types of cancer charities across the country.