Her first TV appearance was in 1959.[6] She presented daytime cookery programmes for the BBC and, later,Channel 4,[4] through the 1960s and 1970s.[2] Her style tended to the homely and economical, "relaxed and friendly",[1] without fancy techniques or exotic ingredients. She also contributed to theRadio Times, and wrote several cookery books, includingZena Skinner's Book of Recipes (1968)[7] andZena Skinner's Down to Earth Cookbook (1982).[8]
Skinner was a brand ambassador forTupperware products.[2] In 1970 she appeared in aSainsbury's film, "Quick Change", about the shopping and the change todecimal currency.[9] She appeared as a castaway on theBBC Radio programmeDesert Island Discs, on 3 March 1969.[10] She founded a charity, Keech Hospice Care, in Luton and raised funds for it.[11][12]
Skinner retired from television in 1989 and lived inRedbourn,Hertfordshire.[1] She died on 6 March 2018, aged 91 years,[13] a year after her brother Bruce,[14][15] at the hospice they both supported in Luton.[11][16]
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