She is survived by her father Gerald Taylor, her sisters Gillian and Georgina and her brother Nicholas. She had no children. Sankha Guha, who worked with Devine on the Rough Guide series and other programmes, said she was "an icon for a generation By the mids Kim had become fascinated by the punk scene unfolding in London, but, closer to home, was not averse to hanging around a folk club run by the musician John Otway in Aylesbury.
Its denizens, who included music journalists Kris Needs and Pete Frame, saluted her then vibrant dyed hair by nicknaming her Magenta, but the hair was the least of it: she was a head-to-toe fashion plate who carried a cigarette holder and wore sequined cocktail dresses around the provincial town to startling effect. She was then a contributor to a fanzine titled the Aylesbury Roxette, which ran her musings in a column called Slinking Around With Magenta De Vine it later changed to Devine.
She was forgotten; now that she has gone, however, she should be remembered as a representative of a lost era of TV idealism, when style and substance went hand in glove. Magenta Devine: an 80s TV icon of effortless style and substance. A pioneering figure in culture and current affairs Magenta Devine. Magenta Devine, presenter of Network 7 and Rough Guide, dies aged Read more. She couldn't understand where her demons came from, describing her childhood as "idyllic" and had a "wonderful career in tv".
She said: "I started taking heroin simply because I was mixing with other people who took drugs without appearing to show any ill-effects. We pay for your stories! Do you have a story for The Sun Online news team?
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