Perhaps such grace should be expected from a one-time Olympic figure skater. Still, it strikes you as remarkable that a week after her dismissal from Channel 4, Alice Cook has managed to maintain the sunny personality familiar to viewers since her on-air debut in January 1985, which came three months after her arrival at the station as a producer. (Full article: 929 words)

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