I'm ancient.
someone put a picture up of Sarah c 1985
she first caught my attention as a 17 year old (her not me) in the late 1970s adaptation of "The Secret Garden". for BBC Children's TV. Her success there led her to being spotted by the legendary producer of Blue Peter, Biddy Baxter who promptly inserted her into thew Blue Peter line up in the early 1980s alonside Simon Groom (nerdy guy from Derbyshire with labrador) and Peter Duncan (action man actor, later to be controversial home porn movie star)
Her clean cut girl next door looks gave her many admirers
Sadly soon thereafter she met the
Mike Smith, who was then working for capital radio, subsequently the breakfast show On Radio 1, the late late breakfast show with Noel Edmonds etc
Her next move was to Saturday morning superstore with Mike Read. Excellent stuff, except for the presence of Mr Read
As we grew up, she did to and moved on to presenting a variety of adult programes. Adult in the sense of grwon up, not naughty. Unfortunately.
Sadlly she had a bad accident about 15 years ago, breaking both legs. Her by now husband was an experienced motor racing driver. She fully recovered
She can now be seen, in ripe middle age, on things like adverts for Ocean Finance etc
A real trooper
Near misses, Cheryl Baker of Bucks Fizz, until she opened her mouth...Anthea Turner, until she was on screen for more than five minutes
Modern day equivalents...Natasha Kaplinsky, Fearne Cotton, Jayne Middlemis, Tess Daly etc etc
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