Julia Somerville

Julia Mary Fownes Somerville is an English consumer affairs journalist co-presenting the BBC One daytime television programme Rip Off Britain. She began her journalistic career with magazine publisher IPC and edited a computer group house magazine ITT Creed. She moved into broadcast newsreading and reporting, starting in radio and eventually moving to television where she was known, for many years, as a television newsreader and reporter for the BBC and Independent Television News.