Angela M. Rippon OBE (born 12 October 1944) is an English television journalist, newsreader, writer and presenter. Rippon presented radio and television news programmes in South West England before moving to BBC One's Nine O'Clock News, becoming a regular presenter in 1975. She was the first female journalist to present the BBC national television news on a permanent basis.

Rippon appeared on a Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show in 1976, presented the first two seasons of Top Gear and Come Dancing. She was a presenter on, and co-founder of, breakfast television franchisee TV-am. In the 1990s, she moved to radio, presenting news bulletins for LBC Newstalk between 1990 and 1994, and appeared on Channel 4's The Big Breakfast as a stand-in newsreader.

Rippon has written fourteen books, toured with a production of Anything Goes and presented a segment of BBC One's The One Show. She was awarded an Order of the British Empire in 2004 and currently co-presents Rip-off Britain with Gloria Hunniford.

Alice Beer (born 17 May 1965 in England) is an English television presenter, and was educated at the North London Collegiate School, a girls' independent school in Edgware, Middlesex.

A trained journalist, Beer's first job in 1987 was as a secretary on the BBC programme That's Life!. Since then she has worked her way up to being a researcher, producer on Kilroy and Gloria Live. Finally from 1992 until 1999 she was co presenter on the BBC consumer programme Watchdog with Anne Robinson.

After leaving Watchdog, she has led a roving reporter's life, appearing on shows such as Healthcheck, Face Value and Real Rakeovers, as well as reporting for programmes such as Holiday and Summer Holiday. She has also appeared as herself on Bremner, Bird and Fortune.

She was also a regular presenter on The Heaven and Earth Show, and did two series of Hot Property for Five. She currently presents a programme for BBC London 94.9.

Between December 2004 and February 2005, she presented a promotional video for Top Up TV. The looped film ran 19 hours each day on the Top Up TV Sampler channel. The channel was replaced by Xtraview before closing altogether in September 2005.