Gloria Hunniford

Gloria Hunniford was born in Northern Ireland and was the first woman to have her own daily radio show on BBC Radio 2, which she presented for twelve years until 1994. She had her own television chat programme, Sunday Sunday, on London Weekend Television. She has appeared on and presented numerous shows including Gloria Live, This Morning, Holiday, Songs of Praise and Open House with Gloria which gave Channel Five some of its highest ever ratings.

She has won several prestigious awards, including TV Personality of the Year, Radio Personality of the Year and a Lifetime Achievement Award, and has an Honorary Doctorate from Queen’s University Belfast. Alongside Caron Keating she also has two sons - Paul and Michael - is married to Steven and between them they have eight grandchildren. Gloria's biography Next to You: Caron's Courage Remembered by Her Mother is published by Penguin (2005).