Denise Robertson MBE DL (9 June 1932 – 31 March 2016) was a British writer and television broadcaster.

She made her television debut as the presenter of the Junior Advice Line segment of the BBC's Breakfast Time programme in 1985, though she is best known as the resident agony aunt on the ITV show This Morning from its first broadcast on 3 October 1988 until her death.

[12] She was given the Freedom of the City of Sunderland in 2006 and appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Birthday Honours that year for "services to Broadcasting and to Charity".

[13][14] Robertson died on 31 March 2016, aged 83, at the Royal Marsden Hospital, London after being diagnosed in early 2016 with pancreatic cancer.

She made the diagnosis public in February 2016 on the television show This Morning after being absent from her usual posting as agony aunt.