Celebrity Who Dare’s Wins & Pioneering Women Helping To Change Things For The Next Generation
Anthea Turner Appeared In #CelebritySASWhoDaresWins 2020 With 11 Other Celebrites Glutton For Punishement.
Whilst She Quit For The Good of The Team & Was The Second To Leave, Turner (No.5) Said “It’s A Total Privilege To Have Stepped Into That World And Be Part of It For A Brief Bit of Time.” And She Still Maintain’s It’s All About Everyone Taking Their Own Health Into Their Own Hands And Doing The Best They Can When It Comes To The Ageing Process.
Photo Bandicot TV: From The Left Along The Back Line (3) Centre Line (3) & Front Line (6)
First In Backline, Scarecrow: Actress Tamzin Outhwaite @glamzin – Brava Bella! Third In Backline: Former Ladette & Modern Day DJ Zoe Ball @zoetheball, Second In The Centre Line, Frog: Kelly Brook @iamkb Came Along By Leaps & Bounds Throughout The Show, Third In Centre Line Flamingo: Louise @louiseredknapp The Eternally Fabulous Singer From Lewisham Was Pretty In Pink, Squirrel: Bonnie Langford 1st Runner Up. From Child Star To Exceptional TV Revival In EastEnders. Hats off To Her. @thebonnielangford Bonnie By Name Bonnie By Nature. All These Ladies Were Moving Amazingly In Their 40s & 50s And Presented Some of The Best Entertainment Performances In TV Entertainment History.
Their Casting Is A Credit To TV Production Company Argonon And Their Approach To Diversity, Equality And Inclusion @ArgononGroup. They Provide A Powerful Example of What Nonsense And Destructive Discrimination It Is And Always Was For TV & Movies Bosses To Say Women Are of No Interest Over 40! Some Even Used To Say 30!
In Different Ways Earlier Pioneers Like @Tina Turner (Who’s Solo Career Rocketed To Unprecedented Heights In Her 50s), @im.angelabassett (Who Played Tina In The Movie What’s Love Got To Do With It And Seems Utterly Ageless), And @viola davis (Who Is A Fighting Warrior In The Woman King) Are All Legends Who Exemplify The Power & Appeal A Woman Can Have At Any Age And Why Age Discrimination Needs To Stop.
She Was The Second Contestant To Quit After Making The Decision Not To Risk Letting The Team Down On Realising Her Cardio & Running Couldn’t Keep Up With The Others, Who Were All Younger Than Her. She Knew They’d Be Punished If She Came In Last For A Second Time And Said It Was About Being A Team Player. She Added She Would Have Stayed Otherwise Because She Was Enjoying It. In This Celebrity Series For The First Time There Were Two Joint Winners Paralympian Triathlete Lauren Steadman & Rudimental DJ Locksmith
In Support of Joint Winner Lauren Steadman (Alongside DJ Locksmith of Rudimental), Anthea Model’s Lauren’s “You Are Stronger Than You Think” T-Shirt Designed For The Mental Health Charity Mind With A View To Encouraging Resilience. @sizu.co.uk @ LaurenSteadman @TheyCallMeLocksmith @mindcharity
Anthea’s Flower Favourites Are Roses & Peonies And She Loves A Carnation.@antheaturner @the_rhs @rhshampton_showteam
You Were Talking Earlier About Pioneers (In Relation To Diane-Louise Jordan’s Archive Project @themakingofblackbritain For Instance) And You Are One of The Pioneers Yourself. You’ve Always Looked After Yourself, You Were A Star In Who Dares Wins And You’ve Proven Age In No Excuse For Not Looking After Yourself.
We Wrote A TV News Review Last Year About The Masked Dancer And Made The Point That The Ladies Taking Part Included Kelly Brook @iamkb, Zoe Ball @zoetheball, Tamzin Outhwaite @glamzin, And Bonnie Langford @thebonnielangford And How Well They Did. And The Production Company Argonon Were Great To Have Included Them. You Yourself Did The SAS Style Training TV Programme Recently, ‘Channel 4’s Who Dare’s Wins’. Because of Ladies Like You, Them, Us, Hopefully The Next Generation Will Not Have To Go Through The Madness And Meanness of Age Discrimination Against Women Over Forty In The Future. https://theorator.press/theorator-press-tv-review/
AT: Well We Are Different To Our Mothers Aren’t We? In As Much As We Haven’t Gone Into The Old Uniform. It Used To Be That As Soon As You Were Forty That Was It And You Wore Specific Clothes, Had Specific Hair Styles, If We Think of Our Mothers. And Actually We Haven’t. We’ve Bucked The Trend. We Are The Pioneers. I Think If You Were Born In The 1960s (I Was Born In 1960) I Think We Have Been Trailblazers For A Huge Amount. And It Is Important. I Was Talking To Anne Diamond Who Is Another Trailblazer, Born In The 50s, And We Were Just Chit-Chatting, And She Said You Know The Most Important Thing Is, “We’re Still Here And We’re Still Doing It. Whatever It Is, We’re Still Doing It.”
And I Think There Is Now The Wise Woman Phase Which People Are Starting To Acknowledge, Which Is We Have Knowledge Which You Can Only Have If You Have Lived A Life.
TO.P: Well It’s Interesting You Say That Because The Other Thing That Is Going On Now Is A Big Debate About Menopause. The Government Has Decided That They Don’t Want To Lose The Female Workforce, Or A Substantial Proportion of It, Because of What You’ve Just Outlined, They’ve Finally Woken Up To That Reality. (Link To Government Press Release When The Menopause Taskforce Initiative Was Officially Announced)
AT: I Was In @Homebase The Other Day, I Was Scouring Around And I Needed Help, And I Saw A Woman And Thought Right She’s The One For Me. I Thought She’s Not A Girl, She’s A Woman. She Will Know The Answer To Exactly What I Want. And She Did!
TO.P: So Are You Part of That Whole Campaign Regarding Menopause Awareness?
AT: I Think Obviously I’m Well Through That, Just A Little Bit Older. I Think On The HRT It’s A Fantastic Thing And I Have Taken It Myself And Continue To Take It (In A Lesser Amount Than I Did). However It Is Not All About Taking A Tablet. It Is About You Looking After Your Own Health And Mental Health As Well. And Unfortunately There’s Only One Person Who Can Actually Do That. And That’s You.
Anthea Makes A Point About The Percentage of People In Doctors Waiting Rooms Who Are There Because of Lifestyle Choices And The Need To Ask Why, In Terms of Circumstances, Those People Have Made Those Choices In Terms of Drinking, Smoking, Eating Too Much of The Wrong Food And Not Moving.
And Then It Becomes A Mental Problem. People Lose Their Confidence And When You Lose Your Confidence You Don’t Feel Sparky Do You, You Don’t Feel Like Looking After Yourself. We Have A lot of Health Problems In This Country And It Is Very Easy To Say Our Health Is In Our Hands But It’s Not Easy To Say If You Are Feeling Down on Your Luck.
TO.P: And So It’s Good That That Government Is Doing This Menopause Programme (Centred Around Women Staying Within The Workforce And Removing Stigma & Taboo Around Female Reproductive Issues), Don’t You Think?
AT: Yes!
The Great Outdoors & The Glow of Love
Photos @antheaturner On Instagram (Above With Fiance Mark, In Greece, Who She Met On A Blind Date Organised By A Friend; And At The Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2022 Where She Spoke To TheOrator.Press (@TheOrator.Press.on.Insta) Anthea’s Bibliography: www.antheaturner.com
TO.P: Talking of Well-Being, One of The Ways To Get A Sense of Well-Being Is To Be Out In Nature, And Here You Are Today. What Made You Come Along Today And How Are You Finding It?
AT: I Live In The City. I Don’t Actually Have A Garden. I Have Lots of Pots Around And Balconies And Things Like That. But I Love The Flower Shows Whether It Be Chelsea, Whether It Be Here, Whether It Be Taton Park, Which Is Up In Cheshire. You Just Look Around And Everybody’s Smiling, Everybody’s Happy. It Obviously Is A Lovely Day. People Are Happy And Smiling And Joyful Because They Are Outside, In This Glorious Environment And Looking At Flowers And Who Can Be Sad When You Look At The Head of A Beautiful Rose or A Peony.
TO.P: You’re Looking Amazing, You’re Feeling Amazing. You’ve Got A Great Love Life Blossoming With A Marriage On The Horizon, What’s Next For You Coming Up And Going Forward. What Are You Doing or Would You Like To Be Doing?
AT: I Mentioned Anne Diamond Earlier And We’re Working On A Project Together. Tomorrow I’m On GB News. And I’ve A New Book Which I’m Promoting ‘How To Age Well’. I Have Got To That Point In My Life Where I Do A Collection of Things That Are ‘Me’ A Production Company And I Have Put Together A Great New Format Which Looks At My Life And Experience Apart From Me Just Being A TV Presenter.
Anthea Said She Couldn’t Tell Us Anymore About That Project At This Stage But Suffice To Say We Will Be Keeping In Touch With Her And Look Forward To Bringing You A Follow Up. We Did Not Know When We Approached Her That Her Book ‘How To Age Well’ Was Out, So We Are Thrilled That Our Powers of Perception In Choosing To Speak To Her Were Spot On. We’d Imagine That Book Is Well Worth A Look. After All She Does Look As Fresh As A Daisy And Refreshingly Natural, As Is Her Personality.
We Later Spot Her Sitting By The Water’s Edge On The Royal Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival Grounds, Enjoying A Picnic Hamper From Fortnum & Mason @fortnums, The Queen’s Grocer. They Were Among Those Providing Refreshments At The Event. This Lady Loves A Picnic As She Declared Last Summer On Channel 4’s Steph’s Packed Lunch Where She Spoke About The Joys of Staycations & Picnics @packedlunch. Here She Enjoyed The Fortnum’s Picnic With Her New Finance Mark, With Whom She Has Fast Approaching Wedding Plans. Also Proving That One Can Still Find Love At Any Age And It Pays To Stay In Shape.
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