Forbes presented the cooking slot on
Going Live!, a position she won after bombarding the production office with ideas for 'makes'. She was then selected as co-presenter for the replacement
BBC children's show
Live & Kicking with
Andi Peters from 1993 through to 1996 and also presented ITV's teenage problem show
Speakeasy. From 1994 to 1996, Forbes hosted a
Meridian Television revival of the panel show ''
What's My Line?''. (Her mother had been a regular panellist on the 1970s
BBC version of the show.) She has voiced Mummy Hippo in the children's animated series,
Peppa Pig. She also presented the
Heart 106.2 breakfast show, alongside
Jonathan Coleman, before she left to present on
Capital 95.8. Forbes was the face of a long-running television advert campaign for
Head & Shoulders shampoo in the mid-to-late 1990s. In 1996, she was voted number 64 in the
FHM 100 Sexiest Women Poll, and has been represented by
Storm Models. Alongside
Mark Radcliffe, Forbes has co-hosted the
Steve Wright show on
BBC Radio 2. Also on
BBC Radio 2 Forbes presented a Saturday show from 6 pm to 8 pm alongside comedian
Alan Carr called
Going Out with Alan Carr, and a Sunday morning breakfast show, replacing
Pete Mitchell. On 13 December 2009, she announced that she would no longer be presenting her Sunday show on BBC Radio 2, but she continued to co-present
Going Out With Alan Carr on Saturday evenings until April 2010. From March 2011, Forbes was a regular discussion contributor on ITV's daytime show
The Alan Titchmarsh Show, which ended in November 2014. ==Personal life==