In an interview with The Guardian, she said: "You just become an automated autocue reader and if you've half a brain you want an opportunity to use it. She has been a stand-in presenter on GB News, first alongside Eamonn Holmes on the breakfast programme, [32] and then on Alistair Stewart and Friends. For a fortnight, she replaced newsreader Richard Baker – who was on holiday – on BBC One's Nine O'Clock News, and was offered a permanent newsreading role on that programme in 1975. Rippon presented radio and television news programmes in South West England before moving to BBC One's Nine O'Clock News, becoming a regular presenter in 1975. After several years of involvement, she resigned in late 2003 following complaints and briefings about her leadership style, which was described as "schoolmistressy" and "imperious".

In the 1990s, she moved to radio, presenting daily news programmes for LBC Newstalk between 1990 and 1994, and appeared on Channel 4's The Big Breakfast as a stand-in newsreader. Her appearance was so popular she made a cameo appearance in the following year's show, in which she was revealed to be one of a chorus line. Since 2009, she has co-presented the BBC One consumer show Rip Off Britain with Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville; in 2013 and 2014 she hosted Holiday Hit Squad alongside Helen Skelton and Joe Crowley. In 2010, Rippon appeared as a guest judge on the ITV show Dancing on Ice, covering for Robin Cousins.They were released by Telitoy in the UK, and by Dakin in the USwho simply stuck their own name on the boxes over the top of Telitoy. Rippon, who turned 79 whilst participating in the series, is the oldest contestant in the show's history. She was the first presenter of BBC television's Top Gear, presenting the motoring programme from 1977 to 1979.

It was introduced commercially in Sweden in 1844 by a nursery owner, Denyer, under the name of Denyer's Victoria. In the same month she worked briefly on BBC Radio 5 Live as a stand-in presenter on the Double Take programme. Just a little curling at the corner tips of the covers which is only noticeable on close inspection. Rippon was a guest in the 1976 Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show, first appearing behind a BBC newsdesk, then emerging to perform a high-kicking dance routine. Back outer hinge has small closed puncture tear, and front cover top corner has small circular ripple due to separation of board from layer, due to sticker removal.Rippon has written fourteen books, [3] toured with a production of Anything Goes and presented a segment of BBC One's The One Show.

In August 2023, it was announced that she would be taking part in the twenty-first series of Strictly Come Dancing, over thirty years after hosting the original version of the show Come Dancing. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. In 1997, Rippon presented the Channel 4 show Game of War with co-presenter Paddy Griffith, a programme that re-enacted historic battles on the wargames table with modern-day military commanders re-fighting the battles.

She was the first female journalist to be given a permanent role presenting the BBC national television news, and the third female news presenter to appear on national broadcasts on British television, after Barbara Mandell on Independent Television News (ITN) in 1955, and Nan Winton, who temporarily presented the national news on BBC Television, in 1960. The flesh is quite rough, light yellow and in good development and full maturity is sweet and tasty.

When I read the Nine O'Clock News, I kept my brain active by working on programmes like Antiques Roadshow (which she briefly hosted in 1979), Top Gear and In the Country. In 2014, Rippon co-hosted the ITV Saturday night entertainment series Amazing Greys alongside Paddy McGuinness. In 2022, Rippon provided analysis on the Australian television broadcaster Seven Network's coverage of the death and state funeral of Elizabeth II as a royal commentator.

They had heart shaped pupils, petal dresses made from the same material as VP's hat, and flowers in their hair. After a much publicised exit from TV-am (with most of its other founder presenters), [13] she worked as an Arts and Entertainments correspondent for WHDH-TV (then known as WNEV) in Boston, Massachusetts for a brief period.