The Secret Life of Countdown

I was the first woman to talk on channel 4 when Countdown started in 1982. I had a secret life, though, see. You were kind of much more scholar-like. Yes, because that's what people told you you had to be. And then this sort of job happened along, because my mum forged my signature and my lettering. That's kind of where it started. So back then, you had toBe what they wanted you to be on the telly. But after graduating, I'd worked in frozen pea factories,. so I'd love the glamorous life. 'I can drive a forklift truck in minus 20 degrees,' she says. ‘That's what