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Anneka Rice (Anne Lucinda Hartley Rice) grew up on 4 October, 1958 in Cowbridge, United Kingdom, is an English broadcaster. Find Anneka Rice’s Bio details, How old?, How tall, Physical Stats, Romance/Affairs, Family and career upbeen in a relationship with?s. Know net worth is She in this year and how She do with money?? Know how She earned most of networth at the age of 62 years of age.
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Anne Lucinda Hartley Rice |
Business |
Television presenter |
How old? |
63 years of age. |
Zodiac Sign |
Libra |
Born |
4 October 1958 |
Born day |
4 October |
Birthplace |
Cowbridge, United Kingdom |
Nationality |
United Kingdom |
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Anneka Rice How tall, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Anneka Rice’s Husband?
Her husband is Nick Allott (m. 1988–1992)
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Husband |
Nick Allott (m. 1988–1992) |
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Children |
Sam Gutteridge, Thomas Allott, Josh Allott |
Anneka Rice income
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2021. So, how much is Anneka Rice worth at the age of 63 years of age. Anneka Rice’s income source is mostly from being a successful Television Presenter. She is from United Kingdom. We have estimated Anneka Rice’s net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
income in 2021 |
$1 Million – $5 Million |
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Reviewing |
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Television Presenter |
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In 2021 she took part in Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back and ran with her Radio 2 colleagues for BBC 1’s Sport Relief.
In 2019 she took part in Celebrity Antiques Road Trip for BBC2 with friend Liz Carr. She was a contestant for Kirstie Allsopp’s Celebrity Craft Masters; and on BBC 1’s Strictly Come Dancing, partnered with Kevin Clifton and featuring regularly on It Takes 2. She was also a guest on Channel 4’s Bake Off, An Extra Slice and Children in Need 2019.
In 2018 she was a guest on My Teenage Diary for Radio 4 and in 2021 she presented Anneka’s 80s TV Treasure Hunt for Radio 2.
Her two stand-up comedy shows aired on Radio 4 in 2018 and 2021. The Clemmie Hart Years about her secret fictional agent and Help! My Head’s in Wookey Hole, about the search for her missing Madame Tussaud’s waxwork head.
Rice writes and performs stand-up comedy at the Backyard Comedy Club in Bethnal Green. Her last two ventures, in 2018 and 2021, The Clemmie Hart Years about her secret fictional agent, and Help! My Head’s in Wookey Hole, about her search for her missing Madame Tussaud’s waxwork, were recorded for Radio 4. Her standup is currently on standby during the coronavirus.
In 2017, she appeared as a contestant on Richard Osman’s House of Games and participated in Channel 4’s Celebrity Hunted for Stand Up to Cancer.
In 2017 she wrote and presented a two-hour Christmas special about Ronnie Wood, his art and music, called Paint it Black.
Rice had a Chelsea Garden in 2017, designed alongside Sarah Raven and Tricia Guild, as part of a BBC parade of gardens. The Colour Cutting Garden was a riot of colour and featured flowers that could be “cut and come again”.
She was asked by Lynda Snell to renovate the Ambridge Village Hall in the early 90s, joining Princess Margaret as the only other person to play themselves. She returned to Ambridge again to re-open it in 2016 after Lynda’s campaign to redecorate it.
In 2015 she gave a piano recital at the Christmas Gala at the Kings Place, giving herself five months to re-learn, having not played since she was a child. She was part of The Great Western Choir and sang at the Big Chill Festival in 2009.
Rice grew up in Cowbridge, Glamorganshire, Wales, and grew up in Surrey. She was educated at three independent schools: Dunrobin School and St Michael’s – both at Limpsfield, Surrey – and Croydon High School. Rice adopted the name “Anneka” when she joined the British actors’ union Equity, as an Annie Rice had already been registered.
In June 2012, Rice co-hosted BBC1 programme Rolf Paints… Diamond Jubilee with Rolf Harris in celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s jubilee. In August 2012, she was named co-presenter of The Flowerpot Gang on BBC 1 with Joe Swift (TV garden presenter) and Phil Tufnell. She was a presenter on Secrets of the National Trust for Channel 5 in 2016.
In 2012 Rice and Patrick Kielty filled in for Alan Carr and Melanie Sykes on BBC Radio 2 which led to her confirmation in February 2012 as the successor to Zoe Ball on the Weekend Breakfast Show, live from 6am. After five years she took over the late night Saturday slot, presenting The Happening. She has presented specials for Friday Night is Music Night including one celebrating the music of Rogers and Hammerstein. She also presented the Arts Show, taking over from Jonathan Ross, often taking it to the Edinburgh Festival. She was the regular Radio 2 host for the Olivier Awards and the Evening Standard Awards. Since 2017 she has presented Junior Choice on Christmas Day morning, following the death of long time host Ed Stewart. She takes part in Radio 2’s yearly Festival in a Day in Hyde Park.
In September 2007 she appeared on Hell’s Kitchen and was also a contestant on Celebrity Mastermind (broadcast 1 January 2010). She chose the life and career of Jean Rhys as her specialist subject.
In 2006 she co-hosted ITV Sunday-morning cookery show Sunday Feast. She also took part in the ITV programme Extinct, presented by Sir Trevor McDonald and Zoë Ball, which saw Rice and seven other celebrities visit endangered animals in their natural habitat. Rice travelled to the North Pole to track polar bears by helicopter and fit them with tracking collars.
Rice performed in panto at the Manchester Palace, the Theatre Royal Brighton, The Arts Theatre Cambridge and the Richmond Theatre during the 80s, playing principal boy. She acted in 3 tours of The Vagina Monologues in 2005 and 2006. She has done standup comedy at the Backyard Comedy Club in Bethnal Green in 2018 and 2021.
As the owner of the rights to Challenge Anneka, Rice remained involved with the format as it was sold to other European territories, which produced their own versions. in 2001 she co-produced an American version with ABC called Challenge America, hosted by Erin Brockovich, a post-9/11 project to create a peace garden in memory of the firemen who had lost their lives.
In the 2000s she returned to work as a regular on The Wright Stuff and as host for Channel 5 series Dinner Doctors. In 2006 Challenge Anneka returned to ITV for two specials, the first broadcast on Boxing Day. This was a post-tsunami project in Sri Lanka. The second project, in 2007, was to produce an album to raise money for the Children’s Hospice Association.
Rice was the weekend TV critic for the Mail on Sunday in the mid-2000s and has been a travel writer for them from 2004. She had a column for The Radio Times in 2019 and now writes an occasional column for The Independent. She returned to Siret in 2013 to write about the fate of the orphans from the original Challenge Anneka program.
Through the ’80s and ’90s Rice presented Wish You Were Here…? for ITV. Taking over as main presenter on BBC1’s Holiday in 1999, she travelled to over 50 countries. She was a regular part-time presenter on TVAM with Nick Ross, hosting one week a month, and also hosted Sporting Chance on BBC2, inviting celebrities to take up a new sport. She took part in BBC’s Driving Force, teaming up with rally-cross driver Barry Lee to win the otherwise all-male competition in races driving Chieftain tanks, off-road cars, trucks and JCB diggers. She co-presented Combat for ITV with Emlyn Hughes, pitting regiments of the British forces against each other. She presented Capital Woman, a weekly women’s magazine programme for ITV in the ’90s. She was the host of Passport, which saw contestants taken to Botswana, Hong Kong, Los Angeles and Egypt to compete in gruelling local activities to win a glamorous holiday at the end. She also hosted the Children’s Royal Variety Show and guested on numerous other shows.
Rice was involved with the 1999 Cricket World Cup, promoting the one-day event as a new way for people, especially women, to get into cricket.
Rice took a sabbatical to bring up her young family in 1995 and enrolled at Chelsea College of Art for two years. She has painted ever since.
In the 80s in the UK she was a regular stand-in for Gloria Hunniford on Radio 2 and presented The Waiting Game for Radio 4 in 1990, a nine-week series on pregnancy. She was also a regular guest on Loose Ends and presented Inside the Life Drawing Class, a documentary for Radio 4 about life drawing.
Rice was married to theatre boss Nick Allott, with whom she has two sons, born in 1989 and 1990. She had another son with TV executive Tom Gutteridge in 1997.
Rice hosted the BBC’s Children in Need appeal in 1987 and tested an early version of her next project, Challenge Anneka. This had been devised by Rice herself and was launched in 1989 on BBC1. It ran for six series. Projects included the renovation of a Romanian orphanage in Siret, equipping a Malawi refugee camp, and over 60 UK projects, most of which are still going strong.
In 1982 she returned to the UK and worked as a reporter on CBTV for Thames Television. She then landed her first-high profile job, as the jump-suited “skyrunner” of Channel 4’s Treasure Hunt, co-hosted by former BBC newsman Kenneth Kendall. The show remains one of Channel 4’s highest-rated programmes ever, regularly getting over 7 million viewers. It was nominated for a BAFTA in 1986.
Anne Lucinda Hartley Rice (born 4 October 1958), known professionally as Anneka Rice, is a presenter, broadcaster, journalist and painter.