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Since its launch in 1958, 37 different presenters have captivated millions of youngsters with their arts and crafts and feats of derring-do. But while some of the ever-bubbly presenters have gone on to forge successful TV careers after leaving the show, others have swapped the limelight for a quieter life off-camera. Now after Konnie Huq was crowned the nation's favourite ever Blue Peter presenter, FEMAIL finds out what happened to some of the other stars including (from left to right) Helen Skelton, Mark Curry, Konnie Huq, Tim Vincent and Zoe Salmon.

Christopher Steele (left) had initially been commissioned in June 2016 to dig into Donald Trump (inset) by a Washington-based political research firm FusionGPS, for a fee reported as being £130,000. The investigation into Trump's business dealings with Russia is said to have been financed by one of his opponents in the 2016 Republican primary, before he was named as the party's presidential candidate. It's then thought a Democratic funder took over paying for FusionGPS and Steele's work after Trump won the party's nomination. However, as Steele continued to find alleged ties between Trump and the Kremlin he reportedly became so worried he continued digging without pay along with FusionGPS worker, former Wall Street Journal reporter, Glenn Simpson (right).

I'll admit, when I was asked to give Gymbox's Flatline challenge a go - I hadn't really looked into it. 'Run around a bit, pick up a few weights, it really can't be that bad', I confidently thought to be myself. How wrong I was, how very, very wrong. As soon as I nervously strolled through GymBox's arena of physical perfection in Farringdon, central London, I became aware that this was going to be no walk in the park - more a sprint through the park while being chased by a pack of hungry Rottweilers. This course, billed as the 'hardest and most dangerous gym class in the world', is designed to break you. And break me it did.

A yellow weather ice warning has been issued in the east coast of England after towns were hit by flooding last night. Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Yorkshire and Humber will be hit with snow, sleet, ice and wintry showers this evening and tomorrow, according to the Met Office. Forecasters have also issued the alert to the East Midlands, East Anglia and London. Snow was seen in some parts of the country already this morning, including Herefordshire (top left). The new weather alert comes towns across the country, including West Mersea in Essex (top right), were issued with a severe weather warning. However, residents in Jaywick, Essex (bottom left, this morning), said it was a fuss over nothing after thousands of residents were evacuated from their homes by emergency services (bottom right).

It is nearly five years to the day that the Italian cruise ship hit an underwater rock off the island of Giglio near Tuscany. Half a decade on the rusty metal vessel is being ripped apart in the port of Genoa. The haunting wreckage acts a somber reminder of the tragedy in which 32 people were trapped aboard and drowned - the death-toll making it Italy's worst maritime disaster since the Second World War.

In a short message on her Facebook page (pictured inset) Hannah Lyson, from Lancashire, revealed that she had received the 'worst news imaginable' when she told followers her disease was not responding to treatment. Miss Lyson (pictured left and right) was diagnosed with bowel cancer in May last year when she was just 19 years old. Doctors initially believed the teenager was suffering from irritable bowel syndrome when she complained of back ache and constipation. But tests revealed she had five tumours growing on her bowel and liver. After her devastating diagnoses Miss Lyson set up the blog Hannah's Bowel Cancer Journey chronicling her 'unwavering determination' to beat the disease.

The Rankin family's once lush farm in Zimbabwe has been reduced to a 'pathetic' field of weeds since British GP Sylvester Nyatsuro seized it in one of the country's most controversial land grabs. The six-foot-tall tobacco plants which were lovingly tended to by the Rankins and their 40 staff only last year have since been replaced by barren fields - and the swish of water pumping onto crops is no more. Mr Rankin, whose furniture was tossed onto a 30-tonne truck by policeman from Harare, told MailOnline: 'So many things were broken in that. It was a nightmare.' The eerie desolation on his family farm is a hallmark of what has happened to many white-owned properties after President Robert Mugabe encouraged land invasions against whites when he feared election defeat in 2000.

RAF serviceman Corrie McKeague (right, with his girlfriend April Oliver), 23, was last seen in Bury St Edmunds (left, caught on CCTV), Suffolk, on September 24. His disappearance has confounded police and transfixed amateur sleuths. At its centre is a single, unanswered question: how could a grown man, walking through the centre of a town equipped with numerous CCTV cameras, vanish into thin air? Police say it’s virtually impossible to walk more than a few yards from the spot where McKeague was last seen without being caught on camera. To further complicate matters, it was revealed this week that McKeague was dating Miss Oliver, 21, who says she is having his child.

ITV’s new three-part drama on Moore, which started last night, chronicles how Stephanie began an affair with the former England captain five years before his marriage broke down. Stephanie, a former British Airways stewardess, said it was ‘love at first sight’ when she met the dashing footballer in 1979, and the pair remained together until Bobby’s death from liver and bowel cancer aged 51. Pictured: Bobby Moore with Stephanie in 1990(left) and with first wife Tina in 1972.(right)

Experts at the Antiques Roadshow could not place a value on some heirlooms left by Auschwitz victim Jane Haining who refused to abandon her pupils in their Hungarian school. John Benjamin, left, told Ms Haining's nieces, Deirdre McDowell and Jane McIvor, right, that the items had great historical significance. Among the items left by Ms Haining, top right, was a ring, bottom right.

The s-400 Triumph air defence system has been providing air cover for Russian forces in Syria since November, and is now being deployed on home soil around the city of Moscow. It is capable of hitting moving airborne targets including planes and incoming missiles and has a range of 400km and trucks (pictured) were seen carrying what appeared to the the protection mechanisms. The news has emerged the day the US sent more than 3,000 troops to Poland in response to Nato's concern the tactics of Vladimir Putin (bottom left) were becoming more aggressive.