Other television appearances included a BBC Play of the Month production of The Linden Tree by J.B. Priestley, in September 1974;[5] Crown Court, (Regina versus McDowell), 1974, (which replaced 'The Traffic Warden's Daughter', which wasn't originally aired); Churchill's People in 1975;[6] Muriel Spark's The Girls Of Slender Means;[7] and The Sweeney, in 1976.
[8] Her first television presentational role was on BBC 1's The Sunday Gang which ran from August 1976 on Sunday mornings,[9] a role that continued for two years, where she met her future husband, Dave Cooke, who worked as musical director on the show.
[11] On 5 April 1979, she joined the children's series, Blue Peter, and left on 23 June 1980 to have her daughter, Jemma Victoria Cooke.
[4] During her 14-month stint, she had an ultrasound scan live on television and climbed to the top of Westminster Abbey, while heavily pregnant.
In 2001, she appeared in the special Blue Peter pantomime Rock n' Roll Christmas, where she played the role of 'Miss Dripping'.