Webber, Christine

Born in Redhill, Christine Webber was a musical child and learned the piano from the age of seven.

Later she trained as a singer at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Christine spent four years there but quickly realised she was not going to have a major career in opera. She moved into light music and acting, repertory work and commercials.

During that period, she was in a show with Pam Rhodes, who also went on to become a presenter at Anglia TV.

After approximately three years moving from one poorly paid job to another, she was sent for an audition to be a presenter for a children’s show.

Unfortunately, she did not get that job but was recalled for various auditions and she began to sense that people in the industry actually thought she had a talent for the small screen.

She then auditioned every time there was a vacancy anywhere for an in-vision announcer and finally, in 1977, she became a part-time announcer for British Forces Television before landing a full-time job at Southern TV in Southampton.

Colleagues there included Brian Nissen and Christopher Robbie.

However, she discovered that Anglia TV had their eye on her and she moved there in 1978.

A year later, she became a presenter on the flagship programme About Anglia. Her co-host initially was Graham Bell and later Alastair Yates, both, alas, now deceased.

She stayed for a very happy 12 years. At last, she had found something she really loved that other people thought she was good at. “It was a great relief,” she says.

Christine left the station in 1990 and became an agony aunt, then a psychotherapist and life coach. She was a columnist for TV Times, The Scotsman, Best and Woman (1990 – 2010).

Christine is also the author of books, has written for a number of national newspapers and magazines, and has broadcast on both radio and television.

Webber shared a practice in Harley Street with her husband Dr David Delvin (1939 – 2018), whom she met in her Anglia TV days when they co-presented a medical spot on About Anglia, and were both consultants for the NetDoctor website.

She appeared as a mental health or relationships expert on a wide range of programmes including The Good Sex Guide…Late, Dating the Enemy, Trisha and Kilroy, and was often on the sofa on BBC Breakfast before they moved to Manchester.

After her husband died, she moved back to East Anglia and although she has done a great many jobs since, for many people in that region she is recognised most of all as a former leading presenter of About Anglia.

At the end of July 2022, she was commentating at Suffolk Dog Day and dozens of people came up to talk to her about her time at Anglia.

Nowadays, she writes novels about older people. There have been three titles so far: Who’d Have Thought It, It’s Who We Are and So Many Ways of Loving.

She is nearing the completion of another one.

She also writes a positive ageing column for the East Anglia group of newspapers and she makes video podcasts and gives talks on Positive Ageing.

She is doing her best, at 75, to age positively herself.

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