Debbie Greenwood is a British television presenter and a former beauty queen

Beauty Queen

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 who won the title of Miss Great Britain

Miss Great Britain

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in 1984.

Career

Debbie began her broadcasting career in 1984, presenting regional programmes for Granada Television

Granada Television

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. She then moved on to the BBC

BBC

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's Breakfast Time

Breakfast Time

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and later presented Streetwise for The Channel 4 Daily. She also presented the UK version of the short lived game show

Game show

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 Love Me, Love Me Not

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in 1988, as well as the more successful BBC quiz for schoolchildren, First Class

First Class (game show)

First Class was a 1980s BBC TV game show hosted by Debbie Greenwood. The show was broadcast on Saturday evenings on BBC 1 and ran for at least three series. Two teams of three students would take part in a multi-format quiz featuring questions on both general knowledge and popular culture, as well...

, which was on BBC1 from 1984 to 1988, and which she hosted from 1986.

Debbie has since been seen on a variety of UK-based satellite and cable shopping channels, including TV Travel Shop

TV Travel Shop

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. She can now be found presenting on QVC

QVC (UK)

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Personal life

Debbie is married to the presenter Paul Coia

Paul Coia

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, with whom she has two daughters, Annalie and Luisa.