Top of the Pops viewers were in for a huge surprise on Friday night as they tuned into the weekly vintage edition of the classic show.
As music lovers tuned into the show, they were hit with a heavy dose of 90s nostalgia as Anthea Turner stared back at them on their telly screen in an outfit that sent fans wild.
In the throwback clip, the TV star, who is now 64, presented from the BBC studio floor, in a vibrant, multi-coloured striped shirt which she tucked into white jeans.
Surrounded by a live audience, the TV star wore her blonde locks in her signature blow-dried style.
She finished off her uber stylish outfit with a black bumbag, that she wore to the side.
Top of the Pops viewers were in for a huge surprise on Friday night, as they were treated to host Anthea Turner dressed in an iconic retro accessory
In the throwback clip, the TV star, who is now 64, presented from the BBC studio floor, in a vibrant, multi-coloured striped shirt which she tucked into white jeans
Taking to X viewers could not contain their excitement at the thirty-year-old clip and Anthea’s bold ensemble, writing:
‘Anthea Turner with a bum bag. Looks like she’s just finished running a market stall #TOTP’
‘I KNEW I’d seen Bree from#homeandaway’s terrible shirt somewhere before, didn’t realise it was in 1990 on Anthea Turner on #totp though’
‘A perfect 1990 cultural moment on#totp just now – Anthea Turner wearing a bum bag.’
‘FFS Anthea Turner in a bum bag (Fanny pack for US cousins)! #totp90’
‘Anthea Turner, white jeans, bum bags and Go West. There are some things that I don’t miss about the 90s #TOTP’
The viral Top of the Pops episode comes after Anthea and her journalist sister Wendy, wrote a joint piece in The Sunday Times earlier this month about their four-year fallout.
At the time of their fallout, Anthea had just split up from Grant Bovey following his infidelity and their fertility problems, while her sister 57, was also going through a rough patch with husband Gary Webster.
Surrounded by a live audience, the TV star wore her blonde locks in her signature blow-dried style and finished off her uber stylish outfit with a black bumbag, that she wore to the side
Taking to X viewers could not contain their excitement at the thirty-year-old clip and Anthea’s bold ensemble
The viral episode comes after Anthea and her sister Wendy, wrote a joint piece in The Sunday Times at the beginning of August about their four-year fallout (Anthea pictured in May 2024)
Anthea’s sister (pictured right) revealed she offered to donate her eggs during her sibling’s fertility battle before they fell out and didn’t speak for four years (pictured in 2004)
Wendy recalled: ‘When he [Grant] left her for the last time his PA phoned me to say, ‘Can you come over? Anthea is really hurting.’ There were a lot of incidents like that. Talking it all through, having a few G&Ts and shouting at the world.
‘It was heartbreaking: she’d had a lot of IVF and we had talked about donating my eggs at one point.’
Anthea added: ‘Wendy and I never lived in each other’s pockets, but even so it was tough when we didn’t speak for a couple of years. I’d just got divorced. I’d had all my eggs in one basket with Grant and I was not expecting it to blow up.
‘Wendy and Gary were having problems but it was their life and there was only so much I could do. ‘
The former Blue Peter presenter married Grant Bovey in 2000, but they divorced in 2015 in the years after it was revealed he had had an affair
The marriage ended after Anthea discovered that Grant, then 52, was having an affair with interior designer Zoe de Mallet Morgan (pictured 2013)
The former Blue Peter star insisted that these days her sister and brother-in-law are ‘completely solid’ before revealing that the catalyst for their reunion was their mum’s ill health.
The pair lost their mother Jean in 2022, and while Anthea and Wendy resumed contact in the years before that, the former GMTV hosted insisted that they will ‘never discuss’ their falling out.
Nowadays, Anthea – who remains close to her stepdaughters Claudia 27, Amelia 29, and Lily, 30 – and her sister communicate ‘every other day’.
When they did start speaking again, the sisters found that they were able to pick things up where they left off simply because they are family.
