Sarah Greene

Greene was born in London,Taylor, Mike (12 December 2024). [https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/celeb-homes-under-hammer-sarah-9785924 "Celeb Homes Under The Hammer Sarah Greene's life from serious crash to finding new love after DJ husband's death"]. Bristol Live. Retrieved 13 May 2025. the daughter of Welsh DIY expert Harry Greene and English actress Marjie Lawrence. She is the elder sister of presenter Laura Greene. Greene was educated at Gospel Oak Primary School{{citation needed|date=August 2017}} and the Grey Coat Hospital School, London,{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/10674662/Michael-Goves-daughter-wins-place-at-state-school.html|title=Michael Gove's daughter wins place at state school|work=Daily Telegraph|access-date=2017-08-08}} whilst also pursuing child acting roles. She graduated with a degree in Drama from the University of Hull. She then sought acting roles in Birmingham, Manchester and London.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}}

In January 1980, Greene had a role in the daytime drama Together (Southern Television/ITV). She first appeared on Blue Peter[https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/bluepeter/presenters/greene.shtml BBC – I Love Blue Peter – Sarah Greene presenter biography], bbc.co.uk after appearing in the BBC adaptation of Pamela Brown's The Swish of the Curtain, following which she was asked by the programme's editor Biddy Baxter to be the replacement for the outgoing Tina Heath. At that time, Greene was the youngest ever presenter of Blue Peter, aged 22, and within two weeks was filming in Cornwall for the series. The programme won a BAFTA Award during Greene's three-year tenure.

After leaving Blue Peter, Greene presented Saturday Superstore with Mike Read, and subsequently co-presented Going Live! with Phillip Schofield. It was during her time on Going Live! that Greene won the 'Best Female on TV' SOS Award for three years running and presided over the phone-in. She then began to appear in television commercials for Nescafé coffee. Later, she fronted Channel 4's daytime antiques programme Collectors' Lot.

On 10 September 1988, Greene and her partner Mike Smith, the television and radio presenter, were seriously injured in a helicopter accident in Gloucestershire. The couple spent a number of weeks in hospital before Greene returned to present Going Live!, whilst still in plaster.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/10/newsid_2504000/2504243.stm On this day | 10 | 1988: BBC presenters in helicopter crash], [http://news.bbc.co.uk/ BBC News]. Retrieved 17 July 2011

In addition to presenting magazine series such as the BBC's Pebble Mill and Good Morning Summer alongside Will Hanrahan, Greene acted in the Doctor Who serial Attack of the Cybermen,{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/bluepeter/presenters/greene.shtml|title=BBC - I Love Blue Peter - Sarah Greene presenter biography|publisher=BBC}} Casualty, Brookside and French & Saunders.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b047m4y0|title=BBC Two - French and Saunders, Series 2, Episode 5|publisher=BBC}} In 1991, Greene and Smith joined Maggie Philbin and Robbie Vincent as the presenters of Hospital Watch, a live fly-on-the-wall series on BBC One which had been shown on the channel since February 1986.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/february/hospital-watch|title=Hospital Watch}}{{Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/a5b84c9e021c4f3992b7b2eb7aa59d92|title=BBC Programme Index|date=3 September 1991 }} In 1992 she co-presented with Smith a hoax paranormal programme called Ghostwatch, which also featured Craig Charles and talk-show host Michael Parkinson.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41740176|title=Ghostwatch: The BBC spoof that duped a nation|work=BBC News|date=30 October 2017}} Greene presented a BBC One game show called Happy Families in 1993, alongside Andrew O'Connor.{{cite web| url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/39f0155110fe4da4b4350fe521db43f8 |title=Happy Families |website=BBC |access-date=5 June 2025}} Greene and Smith made a foray into feature films with The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997), starring Bill Murray; they played presenters of The Theatre of Life, a fictional British television series which promised the participant a role in a crime drama.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}}

In 1996, Greene began a four-year partnership with the Carlton Food Network, hosting a daily news, debate and magazine series.{{cite web|url=http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/greene-leaves-carlton-food-network/1206263.article|title=Greene leaves Carlton Food Network|work=broadcastnow.co.uk}} Later, Greene appeared in the ITV programme Have I Been Here Before? and was also a regular presenter on magazine programme This Morning. She also made a guest appearance in the final episode of The Harry Hill Show, and from 2005 to 2007 she presented the Discovery Home & Health channel's Weddings Live, an annual six-hour broadcast which showcased several weddings live from across the country. Fellow presenters included Brendan Courtney and celebrity makeup artist and stylist Armand Beasley. Partnered with Fred Palascak, Greene competed on ITV's Dancing on Ice in 2008.{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s101/dancing-on-ice/news/a85040/greene-voted-off-dancing-on-ice.html|title=Greene voted off 'Dancing on Ice'|work=Digital Spy|date=14 January 2008}}

Later, Greene took part in an episode of BBC Wales's Coming Home programme, first shown on 22 December 2010. Her mother had died a month before filming but she decided to continue the process, alongside her 87-year-old father. The programme[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ww2nm BBC – BBC One Programmes – Coming Home, Series 5, Sarah Greene], bbc.co.uk was able to trace her family tree back to the 17th century in Wales.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ww2nm|title=BBC One - Coming Home, Series 5, Sarah Greene|publisher=BBC}}

Greene and her husband, Mike Smith, appeared on Pointless on BBC One in December 2012.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pp0t0|title=BBC One - Pointless Celebrities, Series 3, Episode 8|publisher=BBC}} Smith died on 1 August 2014, following complications after major heart surgery.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28623367|title=Mike Smith, former Radio 1 DJ, dies aged 59|work=BBC News|date=2 August 2014}}

In April 2017, Greene guest presented an edition of This Morning alongside Phillip Schofield. She returned to guest-present in July that same year, and again on 4 and 18 August, alongside Rylan Clark-Neal.{{citation needed|date=January 2020}}

In 2023, Greene co-presented the BBC One quiz show The Finish Line with Roman Kemp.{{cite web |title=First look images of Roman Kemp and Sarah Greene on set for BBC One Quiz Show The Finish Line |url=https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2023/the-finish-line-first-look-images |website=www.bbc.co.uk |access-date=17 September 2023 |language=en |date=2 August 2023}}{{cite web |last1=O'Dornan |first1=David |title=Roman Kemp: Show we shot in Northern Ireland best I've been treated by TV crew |url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/news/roman-kemp-show-we-shot-in-northern-ireland-best-ive-been-treated-by-tv-crew/a2100118900.html |website=BelfastTelegraph.co.uk |access-date=17 September 2023 |date=10 September 2023}}

Greene became ambassador for ovarian cancer charity Target Ovarian Cancer in 2012.

From 1985, Greene and her husband Mike Smith were directors of Flying TV Ltd., an aviation video company operating helicopters based at Denham Aerodrome, Denham, Buckinghamshire. Since the death of Smith, Greene has remained director of the company.

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• {{IMDb name|id=0338917|name=Sarah Greene}}
• [https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/bluepeter/presenters/greene.shtml BBC – I Love Blue Peter – Sarah Greene presenter biography]
• [https://www.flyingtv.co.uk Flying TV Ltd.]

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