Work Was My Way of Coping with Loss ; Top Broadcaster Gloria Hunniford Is to Open This Year's Southport Flower Show and Peter Elson Finds That She's Neither Shrinking Violet nor Fading Rose

Daily PostAugust 08, 2007

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GLORIA HUNNIFORD has gathered many nicknames in her time, ranging from Terry Wogan calling her Gus Honeybun to "the middle of the road Empress of Blarney".

It equates with her cosy image as the queen of daytime radio and telly, but there's another darker, edgy side to the Honeybun which I must reveal.

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Work Was My Way of Coping with Loss ; Top Broadcaster Gloria Hunniford Is to Open This Year's Southport Flower Show and Peter Elson Finds That She's Neither Shrinking Violet nor Fading Rose

While filling in for Terry Wogan, she conducted a groundbreaking live TV interview with Salman Rushdie, then in hiding after the Iranian fatwah, or death threat, declared over his novel The Satanic Verses. A shellshocked Rushdie complained to a newspaper that her tough interview meant he'd been "annihilated by ...

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