Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Two schools at once

Regular readers will have observed I like to note the educational pathways taken by rising media stars. I'm delighted to report that I can write "Grange Hill" after GB News's first Director of Corporate Affairs and Editorial Advocacy, Lucinda Duckett. 

She played Ann Wilson in the very first series in 1978; she was late for her first day and ended up being escorted to her first class alongside Tucker Jenkins. She got voted onto the school council, and stood up to school bully Jackie Heron. She got the gig through Islington's Anna Scher Theatre, whilst still at Camden School for Girls in real life. A year earlier, she'd been cast in Michael Apted's thriller, The Squeeze, starring Stacey Keach and Carol White. 

From school she got NCTJ certification from Harlow, and then moved to Australia in 1988, working for Nationwide News, The (Sydney) Daily Telegraph, and, following a year back in London as change manager for The Times, a long spell with News Corp in Australia. She seems to have come back to a portfolio career in London in 2013.


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