Angela wants to be a producer

Press, 23 February 1978, Page 15

Angela wants to be a producer

NZPA London Angela Rippon, Britain’s only woman television newsreader and a national celebrity has announced she is to give up her job. Miss Rippon, 33, in an interview with an independent radio station, said she had decided on her departure date but would

i not say when it would be. ; Miss Rippon works for the British Broadcasting Corporation and her anI nouncement comes one I week after the appointment by the rival Indepeni dent Television News of their first woman newsI reader, Anna Ford. Miss Rippon hit the 1 headlines when she re-

vealed her legs in a glit- i tering dance routine on a f Christmas comedy show. She said: “I am not really i a newsreader. lam a tele- j vision journalist.” She added that she < would like to produce t television news pro- 1 grammes. < A 8.8. C. spokesman i commented that Miss Rin- 1

pon was under contract for a further 18 months. “But she has always made reader is not a lifetime job for her. 1 “Besides doing a splendid presentation of news fess B|3Buy ‘satuurerSord first class TV journalist and has reported for us in the past from Europe and Northern Ireland.”