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Six months ago, Konnie Huq walked out on a world made of old yoghurt cartons and sticky-back plastic, and populated by children and sweet little animals, in order to find fame and fortune among the grown-ups. She had achieved her ambition to overtake Valerie Singleton as the longest serving female presenter of the flagship BBC children's programme Blue Peter and was now ready for a fresh challenge. At the time, she described her ten years on the show as 'like living in a bubble'. Now she looks back on it as more like a straitjacket. 'And now I've escaped, I'm enjoying my new freedom,' she says. 'That's not to say I didn't enjoy it; but everyone thinks it must be such an easy job, not at all like working on a peak-time mainstream TV programme where the eyes of a critical world are always on you. But believe me, it was full-on,... [read full story]
