Rosemary Conley is the UK’s most successful diet and fitness expert. Her diet and fitness books, videos and DVDs have consistently topped the bestseller lists with combined sales in excess of nine million copies.
Rosemary has also presented more than 400 cookery programmes on television and has hosted several of her own TV series including Slim to Win with Rosemary Conley, which was first broadcast in ITV Central and Thames Valley regions in 2007, with a new series in 2008.
In 1999 Rosemary was made a Deputy Lieutenant of Leicestershire. In 2001 she was given the Freedom of the City of Leicester, and in 2004 she was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours List for ‘services to the fitness and diet industries’.
Together with her husband, Mike Rimmington, Rosemary runs four companies: Rosemary Conley Diet and Fitness Clubs, which operates an award-winning national network of almost 200 franchises running more than 2000 classes weekly; Quorn House Publishing Ltd, which publishes Rosemary Conley Diet and Fitness magazine; Rosemary Conley Licences Ltd; and Rosemary Conley Enterprises.
Rosemary has a daughter, Dawn, from her first marriage. Rosemary, Mike and Dawn are all committed Christians.