Widdecombe to be agony aunt for BBC2
Ann Widdecombe: no nonsense advice
Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe is following up her stint as the Guardian's agony aunt with a new BBC2 show in which she travels the country doling out her unique brand of no-nonsense advice.
In the new BBC2 series, which is currently untitled, Ms Widdecombe will tackle everything from family crises to workplace spats and relationship problems.
The new six-part, 30-minute show is being made by the BBC's head of factual entertainment, David Mortimer, the executive producer of Louis Theroux's Bafta-winning BBC2 series, Weird Weekends and When Louis Met... .
"Ann Widdecombe is a woman of strong opinions who rarely shirks from telling others exactly how they should live their lives. Now it's time to put Ann's old-fashioned values to the test," a BBC spokeswoman said.
"How will her blunt, no nonsense philosophy fare against the messy realities of people's personal problems? Ann develops her new role as agony aunt to the nation, ready to tackle any problem," the spokeswoman added.
The new show is to be broadcast on BBC2 next year and is one of new channel controller Roly Keating's first commissions.
Miss Widdecombe first took up her unlikely role as an agony aunt in a weekly column, Buck up! Anne Widdecombe's no nonsense solutions to life's knotty problems, in the Guardian's G2 features section earlier this year
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