Wheelchair racer Abby Cook dinner is the forty second presenter of Blue Peter, the world’s longest-running kids’s program. She is going to debut on the present on 10 March, exhibiting her abilities and assembly animals on the studio.
Abby, 20, will co-host alongside Joel Mawhinney, Mwaka Mudenda and Henry the canine. Surprisingly, she is going to fight her acrophobia as the primary problem on the present. For that, she is going to abseil down Millers Dale Viaduct (Yorkshire Dales Nationwide Park).
Cook dinner is a Forth Valley Flyers athletics membership member. She trains twice weekly with the Paralympians. As the brand new presenter of Blue Peter, she mentioned, “I used to be speechless after I discovered, I needed to verify it was true.”
The Scottish star added, “It was a really emotional second figuring out I’d truly be presenting a present I really like and had grown up with.”
Ellen Evans (Blue Peter editor) favoured the brand new presenter of Blue Peter. She mentioned, “When Abby got here to the studio, we knew she could be nice for the present as a result of she has an unstoppable ‘can do’ perspective.”
“She’s up for any problem and we all know she’ll join superbly with our viewers as a result of she has an actual affinity for working with younger individuals, however she additionally has the largest of hearts,” she added.
Blue Peter airs at 5 pm on Fridays on BBC iPlayer and CBBC. It first aired in 1958.
