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Anne Lucinda Hartley Rice born 4 October , known professionally as Anneka Rice , is a British television and radio presenter, journalist and painter. Rice is best known for her role as the "skyrunner" on Channel 4's Treasure Hunt and her self-devised show Challenge Anneka. She took a sabbatical in to focus on raising her family and studied at Chelsea College of Art.

Rice later returned to television and radio, hosting various shows, including Secrets of the National Trust for Channel 5 and BBC Radio 2's weekend breakfast show.

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In , she relaunched Challenge Anneka on Channel 5. Rice adopted the name "Anneka" when she joined the British actors' union Equity, as an Annie Rice had already been registered. She later became the regular evening news-reader. She dubbed kung fu films into English for Run Run Shaw late into the night and was a fittings model for Gloria Vanderbilt jeans during her lunch hours.

She then landed her first high-profile job, as the jump-suited "skyrunner" of Channel 4's Treasure Hunt , co-hosted by former BBC newsman Kenneth Kendall. The show remains one of Channel 4's highest-rated programmes ever, regularly getting over 7 million viewers. This had been devised by Rice herself and was launched in on BBC1. It ran for six series.

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Projects included the renovation of a Romanian orphanage in Siret, equipping a Malawi refugee camp, and over 60 UK projects, most of which are still going strong. As the owner of the rights to Challenge Anneka, Rice remained involved with the format as it was sold to other European territories, which produced their own versions. Taking over as main presenter on BBC1's Holiday in , she travelled to over 50 countries.

She also hosted the Children's Royal Variety Show and guested on numerous other shows.