Judith Chalmers obituary (opens in new tab)

TV presenter who became a household name for her sunny broadcasts from holiday destinations in ITV’s Wish You Were HereLong before people scanned Tripadvisor or started booking their own holidays, they looked to TV travel shows to tell them where to go, and foremost among these was Wish You Were Here …?, fronted by Judith Chalmers. A triumph of middlebrow escapism, the show ran on ITV for nearly 30 years, from the early 1970s to the early 2000s.Chalmers, who has died aged 90, was the welcomin...