So had she always wanted to be a “I absolutely love it....when I got weather presenter? “Yes, I did, home now, I can’t wait to come ever since I was about 12, Fred back....it is known as the hidden Talbot, the weather man who used gem, because it’s not on the main to be on This Morning, came to way to anywhere...so you need to my home town and did a report seek to find it and when you do from there, basically I was being it’s a real treasure. “ quite rebellious in the background and waving at Anglia made my dreams come true..... the cameras and I’ll never forget he told us off, and we stood there like little soldiers People ask me that all the time and and ever since then I’ve been quite I still feel, it might sound cheesy, obsessed with Fred Talbot the but I still feel so thankful, that weatherman!” Anglia made my dreams come true, I’m not in a rush to go off and do But Anglia nearly didn’t get her: this, that and the other, I’m just so “I’d been trying for about two happy to be here and be doing years to get into presenting, and what I’m doing and growing and there were a lot of redundancies at learning....it’s about doing this as a the time and I was told there job and growing with it...I still wouldn’t be a chance to present. I have a lot to learn. thought it’s time to try something else and give up on the Amanda has her own dream....so I got one way weather blog: ticket to Sydney, got my http://blog.itv.com/ visa sorted but about 9 days anglia before I was due to fly out, the job came up here. I applied but thought I would never get it but at least I’d tried one more time. And lo and behold I got the job! So one week I was moving to Australia, and the next....doing this! “ Amanda has now been in Norfolk for two years and feels right at home:
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