Sue Carpenter

Sue Carpenter is a United Kingdom former newsreader and television presenter. She graduated in English Literature and Icelandic at King's College London in 1977.

Early life

She was born in north London. After university she taught English in the Gulf states from the age of 22, where her husband was working as an engineer.

Career

She started at United Arab Emirates Television. She lived for four years in the Gulf, moving to Dubai.

BBC

She joined Spotlight, for one week, in July 1983, aged 27, replacing Fern Britton, who had moved to present BBC Breakfast. Carpenter returned to Spotlight in the autumn of 1983.
In the summer of 1983, she presented Points West, with Jane Wales, and returned to Points West in November 1983 for six months. She presented the BBC Holiday programme from 1984 into the 1990s, and Newsview on BBC2.
She worked as a newsreader on Breakfast Time for eighteen months from 1985 until November 1986. She later joined ITN, presenting many of their main bulletins, usually during the daytime and the early evening news.
Carpenter's name is frequently mentioned, often comedically, in the BBC television comedy programme series Bottom, written by and starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson.