Maggie Philbin

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Maggie Philbin (born 23 June 1955 in Manchester) is an English radio and TV presenter.

After studying Drama at Manchester University, with classmates including Adrian Edmondson, Ben Elton and Rik Mayall, she responded to an advertisement in The Stage and was offered the job of co-presenter on Multicoloured Swap Shop. ^[1] She is best remembered by many for her time on Tomorrow's World.

She married her co-presenter Keith Chegwin in 1982. The couple had a daughter, Rose, but divorced in 1993^{[citation needed]} due to Chegwin's alcoholism. With Noel Edmonds, they formed the one-hit wonder band Brown Sauce and had a no. 15 hit with "I Wanna Be A Winner" in 1981.

She returned to television on BBC One's flagship science and technology programme "Tomorrow's World" where she stayed for eight years. Since then, she has presented a variety of television and radio programmes, including Hospital Watch, Bodymatters Roadshow, QED, and BBC Two’s women’s documentary series "The Doll’s House". She has worked as a medical and consumer reporter for ITV 1's This Morning and presented film reports for BBC’s current affairs programme 4x4, as well as a series of 20 programmes called Heartland for Channel Health. In October 2003 she spearheaded the BBC’s Talking Teenagers project across television and radio. She has also presented 40 editions of the science programme Wideworld for Five.

In 2005, impressed with her handling of a series of medical interviews, BBC bosses asked her to launch BBC Radio Berkshire’s Saturday Breakfast programme. She has now moved over to their weekday Breakfast slot.

She reunited with her former Swap Shop colleagues (including her ex-husband) for a special programme celebrating the 30th anniversary of the programme, It Started With Swap Shop, in December 2006.

BBC News have announced that she will be their face of technology on TV, Radio and Online throughout 2007.