Kathryn Apanowicz obit

Former Yorkshire Television presenter and actress Kathryn Apanowicz dies aged 64

 

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Former television presenter and actress Kathryn Apanowicz has died at the age of 64.

Her death was announced on Monday after a long illness.

Kathryn, who grew up in Leeds and spent her latter years in Wensleydale, started as a child performer in Yorkshire Television's Junior Show Time, alongside Mark Curry.

She then starred in BBC programme Angels, before appearances in EastEnders, Emmerdale and Coronation Street and latterly presented on BBC Radio Leeds and BBC Radio York.

She was the partner of ITV Calendar and Countdown presenter Richard Whiteley from 1994 until his death in 2005.

Former ITV Calendar presenter Christa Ackroyd paid tribute to her "lovely friend" on Facebook.

She said: "Reunited with her beloved Richard. I will miss you so much my lovely friend. What adventures we had. The world will always be a duller place without you..."

Kathryn Apanowicz (born Horsforth, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England) is a British actress best known for her 1980s television appearances in the BBC soap operas, Angels, where she played Nurse Rose Butchins, and EastEnders, where she played the caterer Magda Czajkowski. She has also had minor roles in Emmerdale Farm (1972) and Coronation Street (1960), and as a child appeared in the film Bugsy Malone. Before being cast in these shows, Apanowicz had worked in children's programmes for Yorkshire Television with Mark Curry.

In the early 1990s she presented talk-based magazine programme Afternoon Live for cable channel Wire TV. In 2000, she enjoyed a regular stint as one of the presenters of ITV's daytime magazine show for women, Live Talk. She is both a presenter for BBC Radio Leeds, and a guest presenter for BBC Radio York.

From 1994 to 2005, Apanowicz was the partner of Countdown host Richard Whiteley. After his death, she published a biography of Whiteley titled Richard by Kathryn. Apanowicz donated three pairs of Whiteley's spectacles to optical charity Vision Aid Overseas (VAO), who sent them with a team of optical professionals to Ethiopia, where they were fitted to three locals with the same prescription. The BBC followed this story on their Inside Out programme which was broadcast on 19 September 2007.

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