Anneka Rice 1988, being replaced by former tennis player Annabel Croft. Rice hosted the BBC's Children in Need appeal in 1987 and tested an early version of her next project, "Challenge Anneka". This had been devised by Rice herself and was launched in 1989 on BBC 1. It ran for a further five years. On 9 June 2006, it was announced that "Challenge Anneka" would return, but this time on ITV. The first of three specials was broadcast on Boxing Day 2006. A further episode was aired on 6 June 2007. As a result of her owning the rights to "Challenge Anneka"
Anneka Di Lorenzo she opened a short-lived branch of The Forever Young Experience Inc. under the name Anneka Thoreson, together with Philip Vasta. Later she married Vasta, but her marriage and her future business ventures failed and by 2010 she was living with one of her sisters. In January 2011 she was discovered drowned in the sea off Camp Pendleton in circumstances that indicated either suicide or murder. Anneka Di Lorenzo Anneka Di Lorenzo, later Anneka Vasta (born Marjorie Lee Thoreson September 6, 1952, in St. Paul, Minnesota; died January 4, 2011) was an exploitation film star and nude model in Los Angeles.