Rosemary Conley CBE is the UK’s leading diet and fitness expert with more than 37 years experience and is currently recording the second series of a primetime ITV 1 (Central Region) show "Slim to Win with Rosemary Conley".

Rosemary is well known for her realistic and achievable diet and fitness books and dvds which have constantly topped the best seller lists in the UK with several topping the charts worldwide selling a combined total of more than 9 million copies. It is over 20 years since Rosemary launched her revolutionary "Hip and Thigh Diet" topped the best seller charts for almost a year. Rosemary's 30th book Rosemary Conley's Slim to Win Diet and Cookbook is on sale now and she is currently working on her 30th DVD. "Rosemary Conley's Brand New You Workout with Coleen Nolan" and "Rosemary Conley's Gi Jeans Weight-Loss Workout" topped the fitness charts in 2007 and 2008. While diet books "Rosemary Conley's Ultimate Gi Jeans Diet" was a hit in 2007 and "Rosemary Conley's Gi Jeans Diet" reached number 2 in the best seller charts the following year.

Rosemary has presented over 400 cookery programmes on television as well as presenting her own TV series on both the BBC and ITV, in addition to appearing on “This Morning” with Richard and Judy for seven years. She continues to have a high media profile with many regular appearances on national radio and television including BBC 1’s “Diet Trials”, "Heaven and Earth", “Noel Edmonds’ House Party”, “The Generation Game” and “This is Your Life”. For BBC 2 “Working Lunch”, “Ready Steady Cook”, “Collector’s Lot” and “Call My Bluff” and for BBC Radio 2 “The Jeremy Vine Show”, “Steve Wright in the Afternoon”, “Johnny Walker” and “Richard Allinson”. For Radio 4 Rosemary recorded a programme of "You and Yours" in 2006, "Woman's Hour" and Libby Purves "Midweek Show". ITV shows include “My House”, “Country File”, “Sunday Morning”, her own series in 2001 “Eat Yourself Slim”, and ITV London’s “Year of the Volunteer”. Rosemary is a regular contributor to FIVE’s “The Wright Stuff” as well as “Doctor Doctor” and in 2005 was a commentator on Channel 4’s “Celebrity Fitness Videos”. Rosemary has also been seen on GMTV, ITN, BBC News 24, UK Living, Taste TV, Carlton Food Network and has also presented her own daily show on Granada Breeze.

Rosemary also contributes regularly to BBC News 24, FIVE's "The Wright Stuff", Midlands Today, ITV Central, BBC Look East and BBC Radio Leicester, the region in which Rosemary is based. Throughout her career Rosemary has appeared on almost every regional radio station in the UK.

For ten years Rosemary has successful published her own "Rosemary Conley Diet and Fitness" Magazine, now ten issues a year from her own publishing company, Quorn House Publishing. This award winning publication has more than half a million readers. Rosemary regularly contributes to most of the UK's leading magazine titles including Best Magazine, Woman Magazine and Woman's Own. She has also written for The News of the World’s “Sunday Magazine”, “Yes” Magazine for The People, The Sun and The Express.

Rosemary is married to Mike Rimmington and between them they run four companies, “Rosemary Conley Diet and Fitness Clubs”, which operates a national network of almost 200 franchises running over 2000 weekly classes for more than 80,000 members. This highly regarded company has won no less than four awards from the British Franchise Association (BFA) including the coveted BFA Franchisor of the Year twice in 2002 and 2005; “Quorn House Publishing Limited”, “Rosemary Conley Licences Limited”; and “Rosemary Conley Enterprises”.

From 1996 to 2000 Rosemary was appointed a Consultant for Marks and Spencer PLC advising them on how to develop a low fat range of foods which proved extremely successful.

Rosemary has spoken at numerous conferences, public speaking engagements and corporate events about running a business and diet and fitness. Clients include The Vitality Show, Health and Nutrition Show, One Life Exhibition, British Franchisee Association, Business Start Up Exhibition, Business 24, Women in Franchising, Women in Business, University of Glasgow, Vale do Lobo Resorts in Portugal and Rosemary’s own Diet and Fitness Road Shows which take place around the country every year.

Rosemary has addressed committees in the House of Commons and House of Lords, for the National Obesity Forum, the Association for the Study of Obesity and for the Fitness Industry Association (FIA). She has had a paper published in the International Journal of Obesity.

Rosemary started her career in 1971 when she started her own slimming club with a few neighbours after overcoming her own overweight problems, (she gained 2¼ st after taking a Cordon Bleu cookery course and couldn’t stop eating the food!) In 1980 she sold her Leicestershire based clubs to IPC but continued to run the clubs, expanding them nationally across the UK. But in 1986 IPC decided to close down the operation and Rosemary went freelance again. It was in this year that her career took off when, through a gall stone problem, she discovered that low fat eating led to a leaner body. She transformed her body in a way she had never been able to achieve with previous diets. This resulted in her highly acclaimed “Hip and Thigh Diet” being published two years later and becoming an instant No 1 bestseller. This book and its sequels, "Rosemary Conley's Complete Hip and Thigh Diet" and “Rosemary Conley’s Inch Loss Plan” appeared in the best-seller lists for over ten years. Subsequent books and more than 28 fitness videos including hits such as “Hip and Thigh Workout”, “Whole Body Workout”, and “Ultimate Fat Burner”, which knocked the Spice Girls and Telly Tubbies off the top of the video charts, have seen similar spectacular success in the increasingly competitive world of fitness. No one else has ever come close to the consistent performance and success that Rosemary has achieved in the diet and fitness field.

In January 2004 Rosemary was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s New Years Honours List for her services to the fitness and diet industries and three years earlier was granted the Freedom of the City of Leicester, the first woman ever to receive this honour. In 1999 Rosemary was made a Deputy Lieutenant of Leicestershire.

Rosemary also supports many charities and works tirelessly as Patron for STEPS – a Conductive Education School for children with cerebral palsy and other conditions, a charity based in Leicestershire.

For more information on Rosemary Conley visit www.rosemaryconley.com.

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