Top of the Pops viewers were in for a big surprise on Friday night when they watched the weekly vintage edition of the classic show.
Music fans watching the show were overcome with 90s nostalgia as Anthea Turner stared back at them on the TV screen in an outfit that sent fans wild.
In the clip, which looks back in time, the now 64-year-old TV star emerged from the BBC studio floor in a striking, multi-coloured striped shirt tucked into white jeans.
Surrounded by a live audience, the TV star wore her blonde locks in her signature blow-dried style.
She completed her super stylish outfit with a black bum bag, which she wore on the side.
Top of the Pops viewers were in for a big surprise on Friday night as they were treated to presenter Anthea Turner dressed in an iconic retro outfit
In the throwback clip, the TV star, who is now 64, appeared from the BBC studio floor in a striking, multi-coloured striped shirt
The TV star wore her blonde locks in her signature blow-dried style and tucked the daring shirt into a pair of white jeans
Viewers of Taking to X couldn’t contain their excitement over the 30-year-old clip and Anthea’s daring outfit. They wrote:
‘Anthea Turner with a bum bag. Looks like she just finished running a market stall #TOTP’
‘I KNEW I’d seen Bree from #homeandaway’s awful shirt before but didn’t realise it was in 1990 on Anthea Turner on #totp’
‘A perfect 1990s cultural moment on #totp just now – Anthea Turner with a bum bag.’
‘FFS Anthea Turner in a fanny pack (fanny pack for American cousins)! #totp90’
‘Anthea Turner, white jeans, bum bags and Go West. There are a few things I don’t miss about the 90s #TOTP’
The viral Top of the Pops episode comes after Anthea and her journalist sister Wendy wrote a collaborative piece in The Sunday newspaper earlier this month about the aftermath of the four-year rift.
At the time of their falling out, Anthea had just split from Grant Bovey over his infidelity and their fertility issues. Her sister, 57, was also going through a difficult time with her husband Gary Webster.
Surrounded by a live audience, the TV star wore her blonde locks in her signature blow-dried style and completed her super stylish outfit with a black bum bag, which she wore on the side
Taking to X viewers couldn’t contain their excitement over the thirty-year-old clip and Anthea’s daring ensemble
The viral episode comes after Anthea and her sister Wendy wrote a joint piece in The Sunday Times in early August about their four-year split (Anthea pictured in May 2024)
Anthea’s sister (pictured right) revealed she offered to donate her eggs during her brother’s fertility struggles, before they fell out and didn’t speak for four years (pictured in 2004)
Wendy recalled, “When he [Grant] left her for the last time his PA called me to say, ‘Can you come over? Anthea is really hurt.’ There were lots of incidents like that. There was talking about everything, a few G&Ts and shouting at the world.
“It was heartbreaking: she had already been through a lot of IVF treatments and we had even talked about donating my eggs.”
Anthea added: ‘Wendy and I have never been on each other’s lips, but it was still difficult when we didn’t speak for a couple of years. I had just gotten divorced. I had put all my eggs in one basket with Grant and I didn’t expect it to blow up.
‘Wendy and Gary had problems, but it was their life and there wasn’t everything I could do about it.’
The former Blue Peter presenter married Grant Bovey in 2000, but they divorced in 2015, years after it emerged he had had an affair
The marriage ended after Anthea discovered that Grant, then 52, was having an affair with interior designer Zoe de Mallet Morgan (pictured 2013)
The former Blue Peter star insisted her sister and brother-in-law are now ‘completely healthy’, before revealing the impetus for their reunion was their mother’s ill health.
The couple lost their mother Jean in 2022. Anthea and Wendy had resumed contact in the years before, but the former GMTV presenter insisted they would ‘never talk about’ their split.
Nowadays, Anthea, who is still close to her stepdaughters Claudia (27), Amelia (29) and Lily (30), and her sister communicate ‘every other day’.
When they finally spoke again, the sisters found they could pick up where they left off, simply because they are family.