Debbie Flint

She was the first girl in the hot seat on children’s BBC TV, replacing Phillip Schofield in the broom cupboard, (’86/87). Then she shared a couch with Eamon Holmes to help launch BBC Daytime TV, on Open Air (’86/87). Years later, she finally hosted her own BBC1 game show (Meet The Challenge, ’98) and has co-presented and reported on numerous other live magazine and entertainment and news shows on Living, BSB, Telewest, SSVC Forces TV, and many radio shows, Piccadilly, LBC, Mercury, Eclipse, BFBS. She has clocked up over 20000 hours of live ad-lib presenting on shopping TV – QVC, Ideal World, Bid TV, HSE, Simply Television – and has been one of the country’s foremost DRTV consultants, writing, producing and presenting infomercials, including two of the most successful shows in the UK in the early 2000’s.