Sue Carpenter (born 17 May 1956 in London, England)[citation needed] is a United Kingdom former newsreader and television presenter.
[3] She joined Spotlight, for one week, in July 1983, aged 27, replacing Fern Britton, who had moved to present BBC Breakfast.
[5] Worked as a news reader on Breakfast Time from 1985, replacing Debbie Fix, for eighteen months until November 1986, when the programme was much altered.
[6][7][8] She later joined ITN, presenting many of their main bulletins, usually during the daytime and the early evening news.
Her name is frequently mentioned, often comedically as a figure of infatuation, in the British television comedy programme series Bottom, starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, and in one episode a signed photo of her is portrayed as a prize in a game of poker.