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I eventually got a job with a television company, started to see how exciting journalism could be as a career, and decided that was what I wanted to do.

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Anne Robinson
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: September 26
Autobiographer
Journalist
Television Presenter
Crosby
Merseyside
Anne Josephine Robinson
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Careers
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Journalism
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Eventually
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