Anna Williamson needs to work with Jamie Rickers once more.
The pair haven’t labored with one another since Toonattik – the full of life weekend youngsters’s slot of GMTV, that featured a collection of cartoons from the likes of Disney, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Community, in addition to video games – was scrapped in 2010, and Anna would like to host a TV present together with her pal sooner or later.
Requested what kind of programme she want to entrance with Jamie, Anna, 44, solely informed BANG Showbiz on the Nationwide Tv Awards at The O2 enviornment, London, on Wednesday (10.09.25): “Perhaps a recreation present. That might be fairly enjoyable.
“It is form of what we did actually as [a Kids TV presenter].
“Jamie is likely one of the most gifted TV presenters, and he is been an ideal good friend.”
Anna and Jamie, 51, had a lot pleasure in creating virtually 600 exhibits of Toonattik.
She mentioned: “Jamie and I filmed 573 exhibits of Toonattik.
“My profession as a children’ TV presenter is a few of my favorite days.”
However the enjoyable and video games for the pair resulted in 2010 when ITV took full management of GMTV – the identify of the nationwide ITV breakfast tv contractor/licensee – leading to redundancies for Anna and Jamie.
Anna continued working in TV, turning into a courting coach on E4’s Celebs Go Relationship in 2016.
However Jamie – who was one of many UK’s most-watched youngsters’s TV presenters – stayed out of the highlight, asserting in 2016 that he began working at Volopa as a Gross sales Guide.
In accordance with The Solar, Jamie was noticed promoting facemasks in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
However though the duo haven’t labored with one another for 15 years, Anna revealed the pair have remained in contact.
In 2010, Anna and Jamie have been quizzed by police beneath anti-terrorism powers – for being wearing fight gear and carrying youngsters’s walkie-talkies and hairdryers while filming a skit for Toonattik on London’s South Financial institution.
Anna mentioned on the time, as quoted by The Guardian: “We have been filming a strand known as Dork Hunters, which is to do with one of many animations we’ve on the present. We have been out and about doing ‘dork looking’ ourselves on the streets of London.
“Jamie and I have been kitted out in faux utility belts, we had the entire bulletproof flak jacket factor, we have got hairdryers in our belt, a children’ £1.99 walkie-talkie, hairbrushes and all that form of stuff, and we have been being adopted by a digicam crew and a growth mike and we get actually pulled over by 4 policemen and we have been issued with a warning ‘beneath the act of terrorism’.”
Jamie added: “We have been stopped, not arrested, however they needed to say ‘we’re holding you beneath the Anti-Terrorism Act since you’re working round in flak jackets and a utility belt’, and I mentioned ‘and please put spangly blue hairdryer’ and he was, like, ‘all proper’.”
