Carole Hersee

Quick Facts

Full Name	Carole Hersee
Occupation	Costume Designer
Date Of Birth	Nov 25, 1958(1958-11-25)
Age	66
Birthplace	Redhill
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Capricorn

Carole Hersee Biography

Carole Hersee is one of the most popular and richest Costume Designer who was born on November 25, 1958 in Redhill, England, United Kingdom. Carole Hersee (born 25 November 1958 in Redhill, Surrey) is a costume designer who is best known for appearing in the centrepiece of the United Kingdom television Test Card F (and latterly J, W, and X), which aired on BBC Television from 1967 to 1998. As such, she became the most aired face in British television history.

Because of the card’s prolonged exposure on the BBC, Hersee received fan mail during her teenage years and was regularly contacted by media outlets for interviews, but she quickly tired of the publicity. According to a November 2006 article featuring test card enthusiast Keith Hamer, Hersee is in Guinness World Records for the longest television appearance in history — an estimated total of 70,000 hours, equivalent to nearly eight continuous years. However, she denied this in a May 2007 interview with The Daily Telegraph, saying, “[It] can’t be put in the Guinness Book of Records because it isn’t a record that somebody else can achieve, apparently”. Hersee still owns the Bubbles doll, which she today keeps stored inside a box.

Carole Hersee Net Worth

Carole Hersee is one of the richest Costume Designer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Carole Hersee 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The card was developed in 1967 by her father, BBC engineer George Hersee, who started by snapping test photographs of Carole and her younger sister, Gillian, and Carole was ultimately chosen to appear on the card simply because Gillian was without two of her front teeth at the time. She was posed with a strategically placed Noughts and Crosses board (the “X” painted in the left centre square was directly in the middle of the screen) and her own clown doll named Bubbles, which was brought on set specifically for the photo shoot. She was paid £100 for the shoot. The card (actually a 35mm transparency) was used on television in the UK and elsewhere for more than four decades, usually while there was no on-air programming.

On the 2006–2007 television series Life on Mars, Hersee was depicted as a fictional character called the Test Card Girl, played by Rafaella Hutchinson in series one and by Harriet Rogers in series two. Appearing to the protagonist in brief visions, she would often taunt Sam Tyler (John Simm) and occasionally scare him greatly. She is the final character seen in the series when she mimes turning a switch at the side of the screen and the image disappears, similar to an old television set.

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Who is Carole Hersee Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Fabrice Ranked on the list of most popular Costume Designer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Carole Hersee celebrates birthday on November 25 of every year.

Who has been on TV the most 70000 hours?

According to a November 2006 article featuring test card enthusiast Keith Hamer, Hersee is in Guinness World Records for the longest television appearance in history — an estimated total of 70,000 hours, equivalent to nearly eight continuous years.

When did the test card stop?

The BBC test card, known as Test Card F, which shows Miss Hersee wearing a red shirt and red hairband, and Bubbles, the clown, surrounded by colour scales and test graphics, was transmitted from 1967 to 1998.

Did ITV have a test card?

When ITV began broadcasting in the mid-1950s, it was only in on the afternoons and evenings. The rest of the time viewers were treated to the Test Card – in black and white of course , primarily used by TV engineers to install or repair sets.

Do the BBC still use the test card?

For most of television’s history, test cards were a staple of TV programming around the world. Even in the US, some local networks used them for years, and some stations, including the BBC, still keep them around for internal use today.

Is there still a test card on TV?

Since the late 1990s, Bubbles has only very rarely appeared on television, as Test Card F has been discontinued , and Test Cards J and W are very seldom shown, due to the advent of digital television and 24-hour programming.