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Lynn Faulds Wood is an award-winning British television presenter and journalist. She was born in Glasgow and grew up on Loch Lomondside. ==Career== Lynn began her career as Actionwoman for IPC Magazines: ''Woman'' (1977–79), the Daily Mail (1979–80) then Lynn's Action Line for the Sun where 100,000 readers joined her campaign to close the world's most famous pet market Club Row〔The Sun 'Stop This Cruelty' 09.11.81〕 and thousands of readers marched on Downing Street.〔The Sun 'Thousands March To Save Our Pets' 23.11.81〕 When Breakfast TV started in the early 1980s, Lynn joined ''TV-am'' as their Consumer Champion from 1983–84 then to ''BBC Breakfast Time'' from 1984 to 1986. She is most famous for turning ''Watchdog'' into a peak time BBC 1 series presenting the programme from 1985 to 1993 alongside her husband John Stapleton. In the 1990s Wood moved to ITV's ''World In Action'' where she achieved their highest audience with a programme investigating GP training in cancer symptoms, ''Doctor Knows Best'', which had 10.2 million viewers. Her investigation into bowel cancer, "Bobby Moore & Me", got 6.5 million viewers and 28,000 letters. She also helped to create the world's first evidence-based guide to symptoms of her cancer, officially adopted by the Department of Health in 2000. In 1990, Wood poked a little fun at herself when she guest starred on an episode of ''French and Saunders'' as herself. A comedy skit parodying ''Watchdog'' called Watch Out, with Jennifer Saunders as Wood exposing celebrity imposters called Lookee-Likeys, with Dawn French as a celebrity imposter of Maggie Philbin. Wood came on as herself calling out Saunders and French as terrible imposters and 'a poor excuse for a comedy sketch' demanding they go on 'to something funnier' than making light of her and her show, along with the real Maggie Philbin, who apparently had no idea it was a joke. From 2003 to 2009, she was Consumer Champion on ''GMTV'' where she was threatened. During her career she was hit in the face with a Rottweiler dog lead, chased by a woman with an axe and threatened with death. In 2006, she teamed up with presenter Esther Rantzen and series producer Rob Unsworth to present the BBC consumer investigation series ''Old Dogs, New Tricks''. When the series was broadcast they had around 70 years of television journalism between them and an audience of 4 million. In 2014, Wood returned to ''Watchdog'', with a new daytime BBC One series, ''Watchdog Test House'', which she is currently co-presenting with Sophie Raworth. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lynn Faulds Wood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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