Anthea and Wendy Turner revealed what made their sisterhood stronger during an appearance on This Morning on Tuesday.
The TV presenter, 64, and her journalist sister, 57, were on the famous sofa to chat about their joint project writing children’s books.
Anthea remarked how crucial their bond was to allow a smooth work partnership, but the sisters haven’t always been close.
It was their mum’s illness which brought them together again and forced the pair to put asides any disagreements.
Anthea and Wendy Turner revealed what made their sisterhood stronger during an appearance on This Morning on Tuesday
The TV presenter, 64, and her journalist sister, 57, were on the famous sofa to chat about their joint project writing children books
‘The interesting thing, you both have this intrinsic friendship and sisterhood, you’re so close, but you had a big falling out. Our phone-in today is about family feuds and I think one of the things that they’ll want to understand is how you heal a rift?,’ host Ben Shepherd questioned.
Talking about their rekindled relationship, Wendy recalled: ‘Well I suppose in our case our mum being ill and then dying certainly helped. We had to pull together for the sake of our dad.
‘It’s really difficult because it just kind of happened.’
Anthea then gave advice to anyone else in a similar situation.
She said: ”Least said best mended’, and sometimes you don’t pick over things. You’re sisters, we just talked about the reference points there, for whatever reason, you get back together.’
And Wendy added: ‘We never dissected what went wrong or what went right.’
Discussing their latest children book Underneath the Underground: Further Tales, Anthea said proudly: ‘It’s so easy to work together because our point of reference are exactly the same. We don’t have to explain anything.’
Earlier in May, Anthea vowed that she and Janet Ellis could ‘save’ Blue Peter, after it was reported BBC were planning a major shake-up to ditch live broadcasts.
Anthea remarked how crucial their bond was to allow a smooth work partnership, but the sisters haven’t always been close
Talking about their rekindled relationship, Wendy recalled: ‘Well I suppose in our case our mum being ill and then dying certainly helped. We had to pull together for the sake of our dad’
The presenter, who fronted the children’s favourite from 1992 to 1994, said it would be a ‘shame’ if the show were to ditch its live episodes, and she and fellow ex-host Janet Ellis said they’d jump at the chance to front the show again.
Speaking to The Mirror, Anthea said: ‘We’re here! We’ve got all the credentials, we’ve got our badges – of course we’d go back,’ before laughing to Janet: ‘We could save Blue Peter.’
Anthea added: ‘It will be a shame if it’s not live. Blue Peter needs presenters who can work live. It needs that edge – live will always give you that edge.’
During her time as Blue Peter’s host, Anthea delivered a now-iconic make recreating the famous Thunderbirds Tracy Island, considered one of the most difficult crafts in the show’s history.
Despite being a staple on the BBC for nearly seven decades, the channel has put production of the kids TV favourite out to tender in a bid to revive the shows fortunes.
Discussing their latest children book Underneath the Underground: Further Tales, Anthea said proudly: ‘It’s so easy to work together because our point of reference are exactly the same. We don’t have to explain anything’
Blue Peter first launched in 1958 and is the world’s longest-running children’s TV series.
It its heyday the show had eight million viewers per episode but now just 37,700 people tune in each week.
The current hosts on CBBC are Shini Muthukrishnan, Joel Mawhinney and Abby Cook — along with Henry the dog.
However, the presenters could face a huge switch up to the line-up as the BBC have said they are ‘open’ to regularly mixing up their hosts.
A BBC spokesperson said: ‘The tender is a procedural document and to draw anything further from it is total speculation. Blue Peter has a bright future.’
