Anthea Turner Quotes

• There’s no getting away from it: you have to clean.

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• The first rule of management is delegation. Don’t try and do everything yourself because you can’t.

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• Storage is important. Whether it’s cushions you only use outside in the summer, or blankets that only come out in the winter, you’ve always got to think of where to store them.

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• Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.

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• Knowing that you’re the one who’s been rejected, God it makes you feel isolated. I defy anybody not to be a bit upset. I felt as though I’d walked into the house trailing all this baggage.

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• It’s cool to have a well run, comfortable and inviting home.

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• If you are a housewife, take pride in that.

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• If everybody knows where everything is kept you can avoid wasting time looking for things.

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• Consider your house from an aesthetic point of view.

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• A proper family diary with everyone’s events and parties in it really helps organise the household.

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• Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.

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Anthea Turner (11)

Birth:	25th May, 1960
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Journalist, Television Presenter

About

Anthea Millicent Turner was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshir. She is an English television presenter and media personality. Turner joined BBC Radio Stoke as a runner, eventually joining breakfast show presenter Bruno Brookes as part of his rap crew. Turner moved into television through Sky Channel and Music Box presenting live music programmes from July 1986 to 1989. Her debut on national television was with the BBC on But First This, which led to her fronting two series for the BBC on the Saturday morning show UP2U. Turner presented the children's television show Blue Peter from 27 June 1992 to 29 June 1994, and around this time, was also associated with publicising 'The Y Plan', a system of exercise developed by the London YMCA. In April 2009, Turner appeared on the ITV reality show Hell's Kitchen with Marco Pierre White, alongside her then husband Grant Bovey. Turner also presented the show Help Me Anthea, I'm Infested for BBC Three, as she advises people whose homes have been overrun by pests.

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