Anne Margaret Diamond OBE (born 8 September 1954) is a British journalist, broadcaster, and children's health campaigner.
[4] Since 2003, she has made regular appearances on Channel 5's topical discussion show The Wright Stuff and now its successor, Jeremy Vine.
Diamond began her television career with BBC West in Bristol, before moving over to ATV Today as a reporter and newsreader in 1979.
[14] Greg Dyke, the newly appointed programme director, spoke with Nick Owen about replacements for sacked presenters Anna Ford and Angela Rippon.
[15] Diamond left TV-am in 1990,[16] to work full-time on TV Weekly, first produced by TVS and later by Topical Television, which she had presented since 1989.
[citation needed] On occasion Diamond’s role on the show has caused confusion with one caller believing her to be a fish and chip shop owner and subsequently proceeded to attempt to place an order.
[1] During 2008, Diamond became involved in co-developing a jewellery range, which she marketed on shopping channel QVC under her own name brand.
[citation needed] She joined ITV's lunchtime chat show Loose Women as a regular panellist on 14 October 2016 after impressing bosses when she previously appeared the week before as a guest.
[citation needed] She departed the show in August 2018, in line with her new role as the sole stand-in presenter for Jeremy Vine.
In the late 1990s, she presented the breakfast show on the London radio station LBC, variously with Nicholas Lloyd and Tommy Boyd.
[23] Diamond has appeared in pantomimes including playing the Wicked Queen in Snow White at Stoke-on-Trent in 2005, alongside Ken Morley and Sooty.
[5] Diamond spoke out over the cot death and baby-swap storyline in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders, featuring characters Kat Moon and Ronnie Branning.
Diamond was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to public health and charity.