Anthea Redfern

Anthea Redfern (born circa 1953),citeweb|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20010429/ai_n14527098|title=Nice to see you ... again; HOW THE GENERATION DAMES HAVE GROWN UP|author=Wrottesley, Catriona|publisher=Sunday Mirror,|date=2001-04-29|accessdate=2008-07-04] is a former British television hostess, most notable as the assistant to her husband Bruce Forsyth on the BBC's "The Generation Game."

Training as a dancer and having worked as a model in Paris, Redfern became "Miss London" in 1970. She met Forsyth at a "Miss Lovely Legs" competition, [citeweb|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-517454/Fruit-lunch-love-young-woman-Bruce-Forsyths-recipe-long-life-turns-80.html|title='Fruit for lunch and the love of a young woman': Bruce Forsyth's recipe for a long life as he turns 80|author=Roberts, Laura|publisher=Daily Mail|date=2008-02-22|accessdate=2008-07-04] The couple started an affair, and after Forsyth divorced his first wife Penny Calvert, she auditioned against 52 other girls, and they started presenting "The Generation Game" together. [citeweb|url=http://www.phespirit.info/derekandclive/bruce_forsyth.htm|title=Bruce Forsyth and Anthea Redfern|publisher=Derek & Clive|accessdate=2008-07-04]

Marrying on Christmas Eve 1973, the couple had two daughters: Charlotte and Louisa. After divorcing in 1979, she was married to property developer Freddie Hoffman, with whom she had daughter India. She was also later married to Torquay United F.C. and Bristol Rovers F.C. footballer Robin Stubbs. Divorced, she presently spends a large amount of time in Marbella, Spain.

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