Fred Dinenage Biography – Fred Dinenage Wiki
Fred Dinenage born Frederick Edgar Dinenage is an English television presenter, broadcaster, and author. He has hosted quiz shows, including Gambit (1975) and Tell the Truth (1989), as well as his own documentary series, such as Fred Dinenage Murder Casebook (2011).
He is best known as one of the original presenters of the childrens’ television series How (1966), and its two revivals, How 2 (1990) and How (2020). The majority of his work for the ITV network has been for their southern region, with Southern Television and, later, TVS, being the producer of a number of his shows. His television career has spanned more than 50 years. On October 11, 2021, he announced his retirement from Meridian news at Christmas following a career spanning nearly 60 years.
Dinenage has appeared as presenter of many British television programmes (most of them produced by Southern Television and its successors TVS and Meridian Broadcasting), such as Tell The Truth, How and its successor How 2, as well as the BBC quiz show, Pass The Buck and Gambit (produced by Anglia). He is also a newsreader, for many years presenting Meridian Tonight for ITV Meridian, alongside Debbie Thrower. He joined Meridian in 1993, though he was inherited as chief male news anchor of Meridian Tonight’s predecessor programme Coast to Coast, on the TVS franchise which preceded Meridian. He co-hosted Coast to Coast alongside Fern Britton and Mai Davies, and Meridian Tonight alongside Natasha Kaplinsky, Debbie Thrower, and Jane Wyatt.
He spent a short period in the late 1970s covering the regional sport for Yorkshire Television. He also featured as a relief presenter of the networked ITV Saturday afternoon show, World of Sport, something which earned him an appearance on the children’s Saturday show Tiswas. He also has his own weekly column featured in the magazine of the Southampton local newspaper Southern Daily Echo.
Besides his television career, he has authored a number of factual books, including ghosting on autobiographies My Story and Our Story for the Kray twins. He is a keen football follower and was on the board of directors at Portsmouth between 1998 and 2007. He was a team captain on the ITV game show Never Had It So Good, shown in 2002. He also narrated Driver’s Eye Views for railway filming company “Video 125”.
He became co-anchor of a new pan-regional edition of Meridian Tonight on Monday, February 9, 2009, presenting alongside former South East anchor Sangeeta Bhabra. In February 2014 he celebrated his 50th anniversary as reporter/presenter with ITV, announcing that he hoped to continue broadcasting into the future. Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook, a crime documentary series on 20th-century murders was the first broadcast on the Crime & Investigation Network in 2011. He has also narrated Most Evil Killers for Pick since 2017.
He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours, for services to broadcasting. On October 16, 2020, it was announced she would appear in a new series of HOW, alongside Vick Hope, Sam Homewood, and Frankie Vu.
He went to study at Portsmouth Grammar School, an independent school in Portsmouth (at the time, it was a state grammar school, while she attended).
Fred Dinenage Age
He was born on June 8, 1942, in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Fred Dinenage Wife
He is married to his wife, Beverley Summers and they have three children. They got married in 1967.
Fred Dinenage Children
His cgildren are Christopher Dinenage, Sarah Dinenage, and Caroline Dinenage. His second daughter Caroline (born in 1971) is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Gosport (elected at the 2010 general election). She also served as the Digital and Culture Minister (between February 13, 2020, and September 15, 2021).
Fred Dinenage Leaving ITV
Fred Dinenage has been with ITV for nearly 40 years as one of the regional presenters on ITV News Meridian. He announced he will be leaving the station at Christmas and thanked his colleagues for their continued support. On October 12, 2021, he announced: “After almost thirty-eight years co-presenting the ITV six o’clock show in the south and southeast I’ve finally decided to hang up my microphone.
“It’s been a really tough decision but I now want to spend a few years with my wife, Beverley, and our three dogs smelling the roses in my garden and spending time in the mountains of Austria.”
He added: “I will be continuing with my crime programmes and ITV’s How! and writing books, including one recently commissioned. “But now I feel it is the right time to move on. I will miss my dear co-presenter, Sangeeta, and my colleagues at ITV Meridian terribly.
“And, of course, I will miss our wonderful viewers who have given me such incredible love and support for so long.”
He concluded: “I’ve been so lucky in my life and career – fifty-eight years working non-stop on regional and network programmes with ITV and I’ve been blessed by having a truly special family. So, to everyone – thank you.”
