Long-serving Blue Peter editor Biddy Baxter helped turn the children’s show into a television institution during her 25 years on working on the beloved programme
Blue Peter star Biddy Baxter has died aged 92, it has been announced.
Biddy worked on the children’s show for more than 25 years and become renowned for her charity appeals, gymnastic displays, foreign travel reports.
She introduced millions of children to sticky-backed plastic thanks to her much-copied home made toys.
Biddy also earned a reputation as a formidable figure – who fell out with presenters and jealously guarded the Blue Peter brand.
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