Vivien Creegor
Vivien Creegor (born 1957) is an English television newscaster. From 1989 until 2006, she was one of the principal news readers on Sky News.
Biography
Creegor started her career as a secretary with the BBC and eventually became a production assistant for BBC Radio Drama and an abridger for the BBC Radio 4 programme, ‘A Book at Bedtime’. She became a newsreader on British television on BBC1 and BBC2 and on radio on BBC Radio 4: she was a main presenter on Points West during much of the 1980s.
In 1988, she joined the fledgling Sky News, eventually becoming the news anchor with Bob Friend. She remained at Sky until 2006, when she was released, according to the management, "to make way for new faces".
She has written several articles for the London Evening Standard and the Daily Mail and also worked for many years with the United Nations, frequently as a Goodwill Ambassador. In addition, for several years, she presented the Millennium Child of Achievement Forum.
After leaving Sky News she had a cameo role as a news reporter in the 2006 British-made movie Stormbreaker[1] and the same year she announced her intention to move to Los Angeles and study to be an actress.[2]
In October 2012, she claimed that she had been sexually harassed by the DJ Dave Lee Travis, during the 1980s when she was broadcasting on Radio 4, and that she was planning to make a formal complaint to the then BBC Director-General George Entwistle. [3]