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Fern Britton


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Fern began her career as a television presenter in 1980 after completing a stage management course at the Central School of Drama. In 1985 Fern became the presenter of the popular Coast to Coast, which lead to presenting roles on prime time television shows, the most iconic of which was on ITV's flagship show This Morning. Fern's warmth, humour, empathy and compassion have made her incredibly popular and she has become a much sought after presenter. In 2008 Fern released her autobiography Fern: My Story, which was a huge bestseller. Fern is deeply committed to a number of charities, in particular those working with and for women, children and childbirth. She lives with her husband Phil Vickery, the well respected chef, and her four children in Buckinghamshire.

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Series

Books:

Daughters of Cornwall, August 2021
Paperback / e-Book
The Holiday Home, June 2014
Hardcover / e-Book

Fern: The Autobiography

October 2, 2011
I am not a huge fan but I read this because I thought it would be interesting given how well known Fern Britton is in the U.K. - it was an easy read and I did mostly enjoy it. I liked the way that the family aspects were in separate chapters to the TV stuff - it meant you could read about either/or, or both. I was expecting more about depression and more about weight issues and the gastric band decision and less of the TV career but thats not to say I didn't find the TV based chapters to be interesting enough. The one thing I didn't like about the book were the comments about Ulrika Johnsons rape allegation against John Leslie. Whatever the truth (and I am not particuarly fond of Ulrika or unfond of John Leslie) I think to say John was her friend and she didn't feel the behaviour fitted with the person she knew would have been enough - the comments about him being good with her kids and therefore not, to her mind, a rapist were irrelevant and naiive - are we meant to assume that rapists are usually poor at dealing with kids or that they do n

Fern Britton

English television presenter (born 1957)

Fern Britton

Britton in 2009

Born (1957-07-17) 17 July 1957 (age 67)

London, England

EducationRoyal Central School of Speech and Drama (BA)
Occupations
  • Television presenter
  • author
Years active1980–present
Employer(s)BBC
(1994–2000, 2009–)
ITV
(1999–2010, 2017–)
Channel 4
(2009, 2011, 2016)
Channel 5
(2021–)
Spouses

Clive Jones

(m. 1988; div. 2000)​

Phil Vickery

(m. 2000; sep. 2020)​
Children4
Parents
RelativesJasper Britton (half-brother)

Fern Britton is an English television presenter and author. She co-presented Breakfast Time in the 1980s and hosted the cookery game show Ready Steady Cook between 1994 and 2000 on BBC Two.

Britton presented ITV's This Morning programme from 1999 to 2009. In 2012, she participated in Strictly Come Dancing, where she was paired with professional dancer Artem Chigvintsev. Since 2010, she has

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