With a shake and a shimmy of her hotpants, the BBC’s fun-loving new present affairs chief means that Auntie could possibly be going a bit of gaga.
These images present glamorous Deborah Turness – appointed final week because the Company’s £400,000-a-year head of reports and present affairs – performing Woman Gaga’s hit Simply Dance on the Edinburgh Tv Competition in 2010.
Scorching in her blonde wig, black bustier and lace-up boots, the manager destined for one of the vital highly effective jobs in journalism bopped away in entrance of a whole bunch of trade leaders on the annual occasion.
These images present glamorous Deborah Turness – appointed final week because the Company’s £400,000-a-year head of reports and present affairs – performing Woman Gaga’s hit Simply Dance
DANCING QUEEN: Deborah Turness on the Edinburgh Tv Competition in 2010
As editor of ITV Information on the time, she gamely joined presenter Mary Nightingale and different members of her workforce to compete within the pageant’s model of the now-defunct Sky One expertise present Acquired To Dance.
Ms Turness, 54, the pageant chairwoman that yr, gained the competition – hosted by TV presenter Vernon Kay – with three gold stars from the judging panel. In her pre-recorded interview earlier than taking the stage, she mentioned: ‘That is my pageant, I need the massive function.’
Described as somebody ‘who loves a giggle’, the mom of two – at the moment chief govt of ITN – additionally displayed her fondness for eye-catching outfits on the leaving do for Channel 4 Information host Jon Snow two weeks in the past, turning up in a brief leather-based skirt.
She is not any stranger to showbusiness, having beforehand been married to Damien Steward, who was a roadie for The Conflict earlier than he grew to become a TV journalist.
When she left ITV Information in 2013 to affix NBC, turning into the primary feminine president of a US community information division, she held her leaving do at Mayfair’s Embassy nightclub, a favorite of celebrities together with mannequin Katie Worth and former England footballer John Terry.
Ms Turness began the development for newsreaders to perch on their desks when she launched Channel 5 Information with Kirsty Younger.
An ITN colleague mentioned: ‘Deborah is probably the most unbelievable girl to work with, she is so proficient but in addition loves a giggle and being a part of the workforce. Workers at ITN had been delighted when she returned to run the place, now they’re devastated she is leaving.’
Married to John Toker, the previous Cupboard Workplace director of communications for safety and intelligence, she is going to exchange Fran Unsworth within the new function of Chief Government of BBC Information.
Pictured: Deborah Turness in 2016 when she labored for NBC Information – turning into the primary feminine president of a US community information division when she joined from ITV Information in 2013