Anna Walker

Anna Walker (born 4 December 1962 in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire) is an English television presenter who has presented such programmes as Wish You Were Here...?, Big Strong Boys, Holidaymaker, Garden Challenge, Garden Invaders and Tomorrow's World. Early life and education She attended the independent Mount School in York, followed by The British School in the Netherlands from 1979 to 1981. She studied Zoology at the University of Bristol. Career Walker hosted Good Morning Britain for TV-am for a short spell before joining Yorkshire Television. She co-presented Yorkshire Television's Calendar regional news magazine programme until 1989. Walker left Yorkshire Television to front sports output for British Satellite Broadcasting. When British Sky Broadcasting took over the company, many of its staff were made redundant and Walker undertook freelance sports reporting duties for BBC Television nationally, working on several events including the winter and summer Olympics of 1992. She soon moved to British Sky Broadcasting as a sports presenter. In 2005, she appeared in the third series of the Channel 4 reality television show, The Games, where, as the oldest competitor, she finished 4th with particularly good performances in gymnastics and trampolining and good showings throughout, often just missing out on gold and silver placings by fractions.