Selina Scott

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Selina Scott (b. 13 May 1951) is a former British newsreader and television presenter.

[edit] Career

She cut her teeth with Grampian TV and Grampian Today, presenting from a North Sea oil platform and at the summit of Cairn Gorm. (A common story among rig-workers at the time was that the unwashed bed-linen from her cabin was auctioned off amongst the crew). She later was one of the launch team for North Tonight. Selina then went national; appearing first on ITV's News at Ten, she then joined the BBC's Breakfast Time programme at its launch in 1983. She presented the show with Frank Bough and Nick Ross. She later went on to present The Clothes Show, and to be guest host on Wogan.

Scott joined satellite channel BSB and later presented on Sky News, co-anchoring its 1992 Election Night coverage with Sir David Frost.

She now has a company designing socks - Selina Scott Country Socks.

[edit] Trivia

• Scotsman part of ITN's "Famous Five", with Anna Ford, Gordon Honeycombe, Martyn Lewis and Julia Somerville, were bought back to screens for one week in September 2005 for ITN's 50th Anniversary. The 5 presenters were back to anchor the ITV Evening News with either Mark Austin or Mary Nightingale

[edit] External links

• The Observer ( Tim Adams) TV go home 27 August 2006
• Selina Scott at IMDB