TV presenter Judith Chalmers dies aged 90

TV presenter Judith Chalmers, who hosted ITV's long-running question amusement Wish You Were Here...?, has died astatine the property of 90.

Her household told ITV News: "After surviving an bonzer beingness that progressive implicit 60 years successful broadcasting and countless adventures each implicit the globe, Judy sadly passed distant past night, surrounded by the household she loved truthful overmuch aft suffering with Alzheimer's for immoderate years."

Chalmers besides presented programmes including Come Dancing, ITV's Good Afternoon, and BBC vigor programmes including Woman's Hour and her ain Radio 2 show.

Her household added: "We volition miss her greatly but she leaves down a elephantine suitcase of the happiest of memories."

According to ITV News, they said her wellness had been declining for immoderate clip and she had go earnestly sick successful caller weeks, giving them "time to beryllium unneurotic with her".

Chalmers began presenting ITV's primetime amusement Wish You Were Here...? successful 1974, continuing until 2003.

An ITV spokesperson said: "As the big of Wish You Were Here...? for 4 decades, Judith Chalmers became 1 of the astir beloved faces of British broadcasting.

"Her indelible publication to tv made Judith a nationalist treasure and a lasting favourite amongst our audience, and we nonstop our deepest sympathies to her household and friends astatine this precise bittersweet time."

Born successful Gatley adjacent Manchester, Chalmers began her vocation astatine the property of conscionable 13, erstwhile she was chosen to contiguous vigor programme Children's Hour from the city.

She made the leap to the tiny surface successful the 1950s connected Children's Television Club, a forerunner of Blue Peter.

She past moved to London and was an on-screen announcer for BBC TV. After fronting a fig of programmes for the corporation, she moved to ITV, wherever she presented daytime mag shows.

They included Good Afternoon and Afternoon Plus, the second of which featured among different things the archetypal TV appearances by Dame Mary Berry, who was past cookery exertion of Home and Freezer Digest.

Meanwhile, she travelled the satellite for Wish You Were Here...?, which gave viewers a snapshot of antithetic vacation destinations and became a fashionable fixture successful the schedules.

Chalmers besides fronted events including Miss World, and presented a regular greeting amusement connected BBC Radio 2 successful the aboriginal 1990s.

Chalmers was made an OBE successful 1994.

She was joined to sports presenter Neil Durden-Smith, and they had 2 sons.

In 2008, 1 of their sons, TV presenter Mark Durden-Smith, hosted a caller mentation of her astir celebrated show, called Wish You Were Here…? Now & Then, which revisited locations from the archetypal programme.