SHE was one of the highest-paid female TV hosts and the whiter- than-white presenter of Blue Peter. Ironically, then, it was a humble bar of white chocolate which almost cost Anther Turner her career and marriage.
Now, 20 years after she was pictured tucking into a Cadbury’s Snowflake on her wedding day with Grant Bovey and accused of staging the photo for profit, the star has spoken for the first time about the episode. “I was vilified,” Anthea says. “You’d have thought I had single-handedly manufactured Covid-19 in the laboratory and released it to the masses. “I received this barrage of abuse and was accused of selling out at my own wedding.