Anneka Rice set for comeback

Anneka Rice could be re-appearing in her trademark jumpsuit in a return of the hit TV show Challenge Anneka.

Rice (aged 47) is already making her TV comeback with ITV cookery show Sunday Feast, which she co-hosts with Andi Peters.

Now she is being signed up to bring back the classic BBC series Challenge Anneka to ITV, according to the TV industry magazine Broadcast.

Challenge Anneka began life as a one-off stunt for Children in Need in 1987, before becoming a regular fixture on BBC1 between 1989 and 1995.

According to Broadcast, the programme, which sees Rice given a challenge such as building an orphanage in 48 hours with the help of the public, will initially run as a pilot.

Sunday Feast is Rice’s first major presenting job since Challenge Anneka ended.

Rice is also remembered for Treasure Hunt, the hit 1980s show in which she raced around the country as a cameraman took close-up shots of her bottom in more brightly-coloured jumpsuits.

Her career also included stints on Wish You Were Here and Good Morning Britain.

The Welsh TV presenter dropped out of the limelight to study art at college and to concentrate on raising her three sons.

Meanwhile, the father of Stuart Lubbock is in talks about making a programme about his son’s death in Michael Barrymore’s swimming pool.

Two production companies have met Terry Lubbock and are in the very early stages of development.

Lubbock told Broadcast: “I do see a (documentary) as a springboard to getting to the truth, which is the goal.”