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Fashion designer Jeff Banks, 81, who won a huge following as the presenter of BBC’s The Clothes Show from 1986 to 2000, has split from his girlfriend of two years, Hannah Beech, 39. Jeff and Hannah had been in a relationship since 2022 after meeting when the designer was inspecting his Jeff & Co designs at a store in Liverpool, near where Hannah’s father lives. It has been reported that Jeff and Hannah had been living at his home in Henley-on-Thames since July 2023, but that Hannah has “moved into a caravan to rebuild her life” following the break-up of the relationship this summer.

Selina added in her column for the Daily Mail: “The reality was rather different.”Elsewhere in the column, Selina claimed that her late co-host, Frank Bough, as well as disgraced BBC star Jimmy Savile “took liberties” with her, with the latter acting like a “lovesick teenaged” while being interviewed by her.Selina added: “For more than two hours, he acted like a lovesick teenager as I tried to interview him.“No matter how hard I tried to deflect his smutty innuendos, he kept coming back with more ‘wink wink, nudge nudge’ suggestions.”Selina went on to claim that, during the interview, Jimmy told her he “wouldn’t answer any more questions unless I gave him a kiss,” after he failed to get a reaction from her with his innuendos.Express.co.uk has reached out to representatives for the BBC for comment.The TV star was recruited to front the morning show in 1983, just eighteen months after she first anchored ITV's News at Ten.But after three years presenting the programme alongside Frank Bough, Selina moved over to the BBC's The Clothes Show, where she stayed as a presenter until 1988.BBC Breakfast viewers took a trip down memory lane earlier this week as the programme celebrated its 40th anniversary with present and past hosts.The broadcaster aired a special episode on January 17 to pay tribute to its history as Jon Kay and Sally Nugent presented a nostalgic news programme.Fans of the BBC show spotted some key differences to the usual programming as the show took a step back in time.BBC Breakfast reinstated the original vintage clock for a one-off segment as it welcomed back its first ever weatherman.Viewers enjoyed archive footage, fan favourites, and a host of extra special guests.The daily programme included a special half

The King has been invited to work on a Scottish croft again – by the SNP’s Ian Blackford. The party’s ­ ex-Westminster leader has offered to host Charles to help him ­promote the rural way of life he loves. Blackford, one of Charles’s privy councillors, would love to introduce him to his sheepdog Maisie, who has been rounding up the flock on his croft on Skye for 11 years.

A former TV news anchor told a court her “obsessed” next door neighbour “terrorised” her so badly she has had to move out of her own home.

Breakfast Time co-host Frank Bough as a sex-obsessed “nightmare”– just days after he died, aged 87.The pair launched the BBC’s first ­breakfast ­magazine show in 1983 but Scott claims their relationship was poor from the outset.Barely 10 days after his death, Scott said Bough was “not the friendly uncle figure that he liked to project to the public”.In 1988, the News of the World revealed that Bough had taken cocaine and worn ladies’ lingerie at a sex party involving prostitutes.Scott wrote: “Some might say it is too soon to write this piece.