DS Icon: Emma Forbes

Any child growing up in the 1990s will only have kind words to say about Emma Forbes. Her exuberant personality, impressive bouffant and sizzling on-screen relationships with co-hosts endeared her to an entire generation of TV viewers. Forbes's stint on Live & Kicking with Andi Peters between 1993 and 1996 is often considered a golden age in children's television broadcasting, while her famous head-flicking Head & Shoulders ad campaign got pretty much every dad in the country all a-fluster.

Pre-Live & Kicking Forbes had a cookery slot on Going Live! and in 1994 she was given her first and only break into primetime on Talking Telephone Numbers. Telephone Numbers, which she co-hosted with Philip Schofield, was not Forbes's finest hour, but it at least proved she could cut it at TV's highest level. Still only 42 years of age, she should be primed for a small screen comeback, but she's sadly spent most of her recent years focusing on radio work.

DS presents a celebration in pictures of Emma Forbes's career to date.