The TV icon died in August 2025 on the age of 92.
The small print of a Blue Peter legend Biddy Baxter’s can have been revealed (Picture: BBC)
Blue Peter legend Biddy Baxter’s will was extraordinarily beneficiant, leaving large quantities to her family members and charities. The BBC TV icon died on August 10 final yr. It was later confirmed she had been battling breast most cancers and Alzheimer’s illness. Now, virtually eight months after her dying, it has been revealed she left a fortune of £3,874,219. She left a complete of 100 bequests in her will which have been divided up between her executors.
The Worshipful Firm of Musicians charity obtained 25 per cent, which was the biggest share, getting a whopping £887,477.50. Durham Cathedral, Durham College and St Mary’s School of Durham all obtained a 16 per cent share. A 14 per cent share of £496,987.40 went to All Saints Church, Margaret Road, London. Her goddaughters Elizabeth Thomas and Josephine Dixon each obtained £35,499.10. The stability of £390,490.10 was divided equally among the many children TV star’s pals and associates.
Biddy’s dying was confirmed in a Fb put up from Ten Acre Movies, who had printed her biography in 2024.
“We’re unhappy to report that longtime Blue Peter Editor Biddy Baxter has died on the age of 92. We salute a real pioneer, who navigated altering occasions within the tv business with intuition, tenacity and magnificence,” they wrote
Kate Phillips, Chief Content material officer for the BBC, paid tribute in a press release, saying: “Biddy Baxter was a very inspirational tv producer who reworked youngsters’s broadcasting by way of her ardour and dedication.
“I used to be lucky sufficient to work with Biddy, she was fabulous, formidable, and visionary, making certain that youngsters’s ideas, pursuits and concepts have been on the very coronary heart of Blue Peter. She enriched the lives of tens of millions throughout the nation and leaves an everlasting legacy. Our ideas are with Biddy’s household and pals at this unhappy time.”
Undeterred following commencement, she joined the BBC as a studio supervisor in 1955, turning into a producer of colleges’ English programmes in 1958, and of Pay attention with Mom in 1961.
She joined Blue Peter in November 1962, overseeing the programme for simply over 1 / 4 of a century.
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