Fred Dinenage

Frederick Edgar Dinenage[1] MBE (born 8 June 1942) is an English television presenter, broadcaster and author. He has had a TV career spanning more than 50 years.

Fred Dinenage

MBE
Fred Dinenage in 2013
Born
Frederick Edgar Dinenage

(1942-06-08) 8 June 1942
Birmingham, England
EducationPortsmouth Grammar School
OccupationJournalist and broadcaster
EmployerITV Meridian
Known forPresenting How, How 2, ITV News Meridian
Spouse(s)Beverley Summers (1967-present)
ChildrenCaroline Dinenage
Christopher Dinenage
Sarah Dinenage

Early life and education

Dinenage was born in Birmingham.[2] He was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School,[3] an independent school in Portsmouth.

Career

Dinenage has appeared as presenter of many British television programmes (most of them produced by Southern Television and its successors TVS and Meridian Broadcasting), such as Tell The Truth, How and its successor How 2, as well as the BBC quiz show Pass The Buck and Gambit (produced by Anglia). He is also a newsreader, for many years presenting Meridian Tonight for ITV Meridian, alongside Debbie Thrower. He joined Meridian in 1993, though he was inherited as chief male news anchor of Meridian Tonight's predecessor programme Coast to Coast, on the TVS franchise which preceded Meridian. He co-hosted Coast to Coast alongside Fern Britton and Mai Davies, and Meridian Tonight alongside Natasha Kaplinsky, Debbie Thrower and Jane Wyatt.[4]

Dinenage spent a brief period in the late 1970s covering regional sport for Yorkshire Television. He also appeared as a relief presenter of the networked ITV Saturday afternoon show, World of Sport, something which earned him an appearance on the children's Saturday show Tiswas. He also has his own weekly column featured on the magazine of the Southampton local newspaper Southern Daily Echo.

Alongside his television career, Dinenage has written several factual books, including ghosting on autobiographies My Story and Our Story for the Kray twins. He is a keen football follower and was on the board of directors at Portsmouth between 1998 and 2007.[5] He was a team captain on the ITV game show Never Had It So Good, shown in 2002. He also narrated Driver's Eye Views for railway filming company "Video 125".

Dinenage became co-anchor of a new pan-regional edition of Meridian Tonight on Monday 9 February 2009, presenting alongside former South East anchor Sangeeta Bhabra. In February 2014 he celebrated his 50th anniversary as reporter/presenter with ITV, announcing that he hoped to continue broadcasting into the future. Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook, a crime documentary series on 20th century murders was first broadcast on the Crime & Investigation Network in 2011.[6]

Dinenage was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours, for services to broadcasting.[7]

On 16 October 2020, it was announced Dinenage would appear in a new series of HOW, alongside Vick Hope, Sam Homewood and Frankie Vu.[8]

Family

Dinenage's daughter Caroline (born 1971) is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Gosport (elected at the 2010 general election[9]) and the current Digital and Culture Minister (serving since 13 February 2020).

References
  1. Dinenage, Fred (21 July 2007). "Fearne and Reggie". BBC Radio 1 (Interview). Interviewed by Fearne Cotton.
  2. "Record Transcriptions: England and Wales births 1837-2006". Find My Past.
  3. "Hampshire Heritage - Fred Dinenage". Southern Daily Echo, Southampton. 20 June 2007. Archived from the original on 15 July 2014. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
  4. "Fred Dinenage the great survivor". Daily Echo. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
  5. "Redknapp trial 'waste of money'". 8 February 2012 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  6. "About - Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook". Crime and Investigation. Retrieved 2 October 2011.
  7. "No. 59446". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 2010. p. 15.
  8. "The new HOW presenters are…". Press Centre. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  9. "Dinenage to succeed duck house MP as Tory candidate". BBC News. 4 December 2009. Retrieved 1 March 2011.
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