At that time, Greene was the youngest ever presenter of Blue Peter, aged 22, and within two weeks was filming in Cornwall for the series.
After leaving Blue Peter, Greene presented Saturday Superstore with Mike Read, and subsequently co-presented Going Live!
[2] On 10 September 1988, Greene and her partner Mike Smith, the television and radio presenter, were seriously injured in a helicopter accident in Gloucestershire.
[2][3] In addition to presenting magazine series such as the BBC's Pebble Mill and Good Morning Summer alongside Will Hanrahan, Greene acted in the Doctor Who serial Attack of the Cybermen,[4] Casualty, Brookside and French & Saunders.
[5] In 1991, Greene and Smith joined Maggie Philbin and Robbie Vincent as the presenters of Hospital Watch, a live fly-on-the-wall series on BBC One which had been shown on the channel since February 1986.
[6][7] In 1992 she co-presented with Smith a hoax paranormal programme called Ghostwatch, which also featured Craig Charles and talk-show host Michael Parkinson.
[8] Greene and Smith made a foray into feature films with The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997), starring Bill Murray; they played presenters of The Theatre of Life, a fictional British television series which promised the participant a role in a crime drama.
[citation needed] In 1996, Greene began a four-year partnership with the Food Network, hosting a daily news, debate and magazine series.