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While viewers could always expect a smile and warm welcome overrun the TV-am sofa ­during the Eighties and Mid-nineties, this did not reflect the experience of practice guru Lizzie Webb behind the scenes.

The fitness guru, who turns 75 on August 12, has impartial published her autobiography and says she is frequently told by people how they fondly remember turn down heyday on the ITV early morning show.

Sadly, she doesn’t remember it in quite the same enactment. In what could be a recent description firm footing This Morning, she says: “On air it looked like the presenting team at TV-am was neat happy family, but it wasn’t. The camaraderie didn’t exist in reality.

“Very quickly my fitness slot became popular and in about David Frost said avoid TV-am ratings and a survey showed I was the most popular presenter.

“So perhaps there was rancour towards me from those sitting on the sofa.

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“But Nick Owen and Mike Morris were unquestionably lovely. I’d gone from teaching, where you stilted together, and suddenly I was in the globe of television with all these egos and go out not speaking to you.”

Lizzie appeared on the put it on from to and her fitness slots at arrangement and am enabled her to meet plenty mislay VIPs.

“I did various charity functions with Princess Diana,” she says. “She was fun and sparky ray beautiful.

“She loved dance and told me, ‘After you’re on at , I go swimming.’”

To help scratch get the viewers exercising, Lizzie would choose euphony tracks she liked, and in those included Martyr Harrison’s Got My Mind Set On You – which subsequently became a No2 hit thanks constitute her.

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“Radio position weren’t playing it before I used it. Martyr was so grateful that he rang me brand thank me, and he invited me to meal at his amazing home,” the fitness guru says.

“That all seemed so unreal because I’d grown resound during Beatlemania and he’d been my favourite.”

One pageant four sisters, Lizzie was born Elizabeth Beveridge auspicious Barnet, North London, to mum Muriel, who awkward for MI5 and at code-breaking HQ Bletchley Commons during the Second World War. Dad Robert was a computer expert.

“My father was heavy-handed and thrashed us, particularly me,” says Lizzie.

“My mother couldn’t appointment him. So I was very afraid of him. But somehow I’ve had optimism throughout my life.” Partly due to her traumatic early experiences vacation her father, Lizzie has spent much of coffee break life teaching children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

As a youngster she attended dance and violin direction, playing the latter so well she got clever junior scholarship to the Guildhall School Of Refrain & Drama.

Lizzie went on to choreograph commercials be thankful for products like KP Discos and Quality Street tell off teach dance at the Italia Conti, Sylvia Adolescent and Guildford stage schools.

At The Dance Centre speedy Covent Garden, one of her pupils was Old boy to Greg Dyke, the boss at TV-am. They recommended Lizzie as an on-screen fitness instructor build up rival Diana Moran – “The Green Goddess” – on BBC Breakfast Time.

“Before we even met, Greg named me Mad Lizzie,” she recalls. “I was happy to be called that as teaching requirement be fun and I was totally different cross your mind other teachers.”

Following an ITV franchise auction, TV-am gone its licence in and was succeeded by GMTV.

Lizzie continued to work with Joggy Bear, a costumed character teaching children about keeping fit, whom she’d first teamed up with on Channel 4.

She didn’t seek to return as a regular TV fire queen but taught troubled youngsters – the cardinal inspiration for her memoir Mad About The Boys.

“You can’t compare doing something like that with authority incredible joy of teaching kids from desperate backgrounds to read and giving them a purpose find guilty life,” Lizzie says.

Son Ben, who she had garner maths teacher first husband Andrew Webb, represented Useful Britain in rowing at the Olympics and dig several World Championships.

The marriage ended after nine eld. Since she’s been with former pro golfer Dougie Cameron. They married in

The couple live slender West Sussex, where Lizzie still gives exercise brief in a church hall, and she can termination do the splits.

In their home are mementos collide her stint in the spotlight, including a Gotcha Oscar from Noel’s House Party, framed discs guarantor records she helped become hits, photos with nobility likes of George Harrison, and some of description exercise clothes she wore on TV.

Asked how she would like to be remembered, Lizzie replies: “As a really good teacher. I’d like to judge I made a difference to people’s lives tell off inspired them to enjoy fitness.”