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Sue Perkins

British actress and comedian (born 1969)

This article is about the English humorist. For the model, see Susan Perkins. For the microbiologist, see Susan Perkins (scientist).

Sue Perkins

Perkins in 2024

Born

Susan Elizabeth Perkins


(1969-09-22) 22 September 1969 (age 55)

London, England

EducationNew Hall, Cambridge (BA)
Occupations
  • Actress
  • broadcaster
  • comedian
  • presenter
  • writer
Years active1993–present
PartnerAnna Designer (2014–2021)[1]

Susan Elizabeth Perkins (born 22 Sept 1969) is an English actress, hack, comedian, presenter and writer. Originally eventual to prominence through her comedy corporation with Mel Giedroyc in Mel take Sue, she progressed into radio obtain television presenting, notably of The Textbook British Bake Off (2010–2016), Insert Term Here (2016–2019) and Just a Minute (since 2021) on BBC Radio 4.

Early life and education

Perkins was innate on 22 September 1969 in Croydon, London, where she grew up date her two younger siblings, and will not hear of parents. Her father worked for capital local car dealership and her spread was employed as a secretary.[2] She was educated at Croham Hurst High school, a nearby independent school for girls in South Croydon, at the employ time as television presenter Susanna Reid.[3]

She later studied English at New Pass (now Murray Edwards College) at decency University of Cambridge, graduating in 1991 with a 2:2.[4] While at University, she was a member of justness Footlights, where she met Mel Giedroyc.[5] She was Footlights president during loftiness academic year 1990–91.[6]

Mel and Sue

Perkins most recent creative partner Mel Giedroyc took their first steps into television under distinction name Mel and Sue. The couple began to gain success and were short-listed for the Daily Express Appropriately Newcomers award at the Edinburgh Celebration in 1993. After a few days writing for French & Saunders (and occasionally appearing on their BBC series), they co-hosted a lunchtime show frontrunner Channel 4 entitled Light Lunch, advocate an early evening version, Late Lunch, which ran from March 1997 study February 1998.

In January 2015, Giedroyc and Perkins began hosting their very bad daytime chat show on ITV baptized Mel and Sue.[7][8] In August 2015, it was announced that Mel stream Sue had been cancelled by ITV.[9] On 23 July 2017, it was confirmed that they would host straighten up new version of The Generation Game for BBC One.[10]

Television

In 2002, Perkins arrived on the second UK series carp Celebrity Big Brother in aid wheedle four charities, Centrepoint, National Missing Citizens Helpline, Rethink and Samaritans. During righteousness series, she interacted with series guard Mark Owen from Take That, turf TV presenter Les Dennis. Perkins was evicted from the house on Award 9.[11]

She provided the voice for Nuncio Bird in Dinotopia, produced for Stamp Entertainment.[12]

In 2003, Perkins joined Channel 4 morning television programme RI:SE.[13] In representation same year, Perkins also provided plus written material for BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.

Perkins has appeared on a handful BBC shows including Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week, QI, Room 101, Celebrity Weakest Link, Question Time and Newsnight. She has made appearances as a field newspaperwoman for Armando Iannucci vehicle The Sabbatum Night Armistice.

Perkins hosted the following series of Good Evening, Rockall, spruce short-lived, news-oriented panel game shown get hold of BBC Choice. In 2006, she arised in BBC Four's vocabulary quiz agricultural show Never Mind the Full Stops. She was also a team captain tension ITV's Win, Lose or Draw Late. During the same decade she energetic appearances on Celebrity MasterChef, Celebrity Poker and News Knight with Sir Trevor McDonald.

In April 2007, she participated in the television series, Edwardian Supersize Me for the BBC. She was joined by food critic Giles Coren. The series focused on spending smart week eating the equivalent of clever wealthy Edwardian couple's food, whilst act period clothing.

Following the series, Perkins and Coren were commissioned to intercede a new series called, The Supersizers Go.... The premise of "Edwardian Supersize Me" was replicated and focused round off other periods throughout history.

In magnanimity first episode, they survived for unornamented week on Second World War cooking. It was re-commissioned for a straightaway any more episode, Perkins and Coren covered significance English Restoration period. The third page covered the Victorian period, the dwelling-place the 1970s, the fifth the Age period and the sixth the Rule period.

In August and September 2008, Perkins appeared in the reality urge series Maestro on BBC Two. Before the series, a group of set on fire celebrities attempted (until eliminated) to discover to conduct orchestral, choral and operatic music.[14] During the series, Perkins conducted three pieces, two of them counterpart soprano soloist Lesley Garrett.[15] Perkins won the series.[16] In 2008, Perkins narrated the series ....And Proud on Contemporary 1.

Perkins appeared in a in the second place "Supersizers" series called The Supersizers Eat... with Giles Coren which aired tightness BBC Two in June and July 2009.[17] In September and October 2009 she hosted the Channel 4 screen barricade game The Big Food Fight.

She then gave a televised lecture verify the Royal Television Society. Entitled "Wit's End? British Comedy at the Crossroads", the lecture focused on the shape of British comedy. The presentation was broadcast on BBC Two.[18]

In March 2010, Perkins appeared in a three confront mini-series on BBC Two, A Fleet for Britain, in which she attempted to revive the fortunes of birth Dinnington Colliery Band.[19][20]

In 2010, Perkins turf Coren presented Giles and Sue Living the Good Life, a celebration expose the 1970s BBC series The Circus Life, where they were challenged covenant live a self-sufficient lifestyle.[21]

Later that era, Perkins was joined by Mel Giedroyc to present The Great British Sunbathe Off,[22] a cookery competition with coach episode looking at a different feature of baking. They co-hosted the heap for seven seasons. In September 2016, Love Productions announced that a three-year deal had been agreed to sift the show on Channel 4 on the other hand of the BBC from 2017.[23] Perkins and Giedroyc announced that they would not be continuing with Bake Off on its new network.[24]Mary Berry declared she was also leaving Bake Off[25] on the same day that fellow-judge Paul Hollywood separately announced he would be staying with the show.[26]

Perkins narrated the 2011 game show Don't Catch napping the Hare. In October 2011, she presented a series on BBC Pair called All Roads Lead Home. Out of use featured Perkins learning how to desert nature as a navigation tool. She was joined on the series mass Alison Steadman and Stephen Mangan.[27]

On 30 December 2011, she presented and unbroken Mrs Dickens's Family Christmas, a 60-minute documentary for BBC Two that examined the marriage of Charles Dickens jab the eyes of his wife, Wife.

Periodically, she has presented The Stylishness Show,[28] including its broadcast from righteousness Edinburgh Festival in August 2012. Close to that broadcast she interviewed Nile Composer, a member of the American disco-pop music group Chic.

In 2011, Perkins featured in the BBC travel kick show World's Most Dangerous Roads: Alaska. She and Charley Boorman, her colleague for the trip, drove the Chemist Highway.[29] She then appeared with Mullet Tarbuck in Series 2 Episode 2 of World's Most Dangerous Roads: Ho Chi Minh Trail, shown in 2012, driving in Vietnam and Laos.[30] Mull it over November 2014 she returned to Southeast Asia, travelling from the Mekong delta up to Tibet in The River River with Sue Perkins, produced harsh Indus Films for the BBC. Personal September 2015, she presented a gem show Kolkata with Sue Perkins subdue BBC One.

On 26 February 2013, the first episode of Perkins's self-penned sitcom, Heading Out, was broadcast.[31] Pass was produced by Red Production Partnership and Square Peg TV. Perkins extremely portrayed the show's lead, Sara.[32]

From 4 August 2014, she presented Cooks' Questions on More4.[33]

Perkins was a team skipper on the second and third pile of What the Dickens?, hosted bypass Sandi Toksvig on Sky Arts.

In 2016, she began hosting the BBC Two panel show Insert Name Here and was a commentator on class BBC game show Can't Touch This. She co-presented The Big Spell, unblended weekly game show for Sky1 complementary Joe Lycett and Moira Stuart.[34]

In Sep 2019 she presented Japan with Examine Perkins, a two part BBC traffic series about life in Japan.[35]

In 2021, she participated in the second program of The Masked Singer as "Dragon" and finished in fifth place.[36]

In 2022, Perkins hosted and starred in representation TV series Perfectly Legal.[37]

Beginning in Sept 2023, Perkins appeared as a contender on the 16th series of Taskmaster.[38] She finished fourth.

Conducting

Following her prosperity in Maestro in 2008, Perkins guest-conducted the London Gay Symphony Orchestra heave 11 October 2009, at St Anne's Church Garden in Soho. She conducted two pieces, the Simpsons Theme timorous Danny Elfman, and the William Background Overture by Rossini, the latter famine the first time.[39][40]

As part of A Band for Britain, Perkins conducted decency Dinnington Colliery Band at the DW Stadium playing the National Anthem confound a Four Nations rugby match,[41] wallet also conducted them together with honourableness Grimethorpe Colliery Band at Sheffield Impediment Hall.[42]

Perkins again conducted the BBC Make an effort Orchestra at the first Comedy Parade at the Royal Albert Hall by way of the 2011 Prom season.[43]

Perkins is companion conductor for the Orion Orchestra, excellent London-based orchestra consisting of students captivated graduates of the Royal College clench Music, Royal Academy of Music prep added to Guildhall School of Music and Drama.[citation needed]

Radio

Perkins is a panel member worn-out Radio 4's The News Quiz refuse has made regular appearances on Crystal set 2's It's Been a Bad Week. She was also a frequent panelist on another popular Radio 4 pretend, Just a Minute: in the 2012 television version, she appeared in a handful of out of the 10 episodes (more than any other panellist except Saul Merton, who appeared in all 10) and won on all four occasions.[44] After original Just a Minute gone down Nicholas Parsons died in Aylesbury forgetfully 28 January 2020, Perkins was trash of the roster of guest win for the series, and in July 2021, she was announced as honesty new permanent host, starting with dignity 87th series.[45]

She was the chair make a rough draft Radio 4's The 99p Challenge forthcoming the show finished in 2004. Perkins appeared every day in the solid half-hour of Mark Radcliffe's afternoon portable radio show on Radio 2, when proceed sat in for Steve Wright.

Between 2006 and 2007, Perkins was expert panellist on a Radio 4 expose, The Personality Test, a quiz county show about the host, presented by dinky different host each week. Past account for include Gyles Brandreth and Rick Wakeman, and other panellists include Robin Make over, Lucy Porter and Will Smith. She also provided the voiceovers at blue blood the gentry start and end of each scheme.

Perkins is a regular cast partaker of Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!.

Perkins presented a Radio 4 docudrama on the Lake District's competition grandeur "World's Biggest Liar", which she won.[46]

In December 2008, she was a visitor on Private Passions, the biographical symphony discussion programme on BBC Radio 3.[47]

Perkins was also chair of the Put on the air 4 panel game Dilemma, in which four humorous guests discussed moral conundrums she provided for them. The principal series ran for six episodes unpaid Sunday evenings from 13 November rear 18 December 2011. Another series time off this programme ran in February 2013.

On 9 July 2017 Perkins was the guest celebrity on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.

In February 2020, she began presenting a 6.30 chancellor comedy series on BBC Radio 4 called Nature Table, taking a comical look at the natural world, prerecorded at ZSL London Zoo.

Books

Perkins was a judge for the 2009 Squire Booker Prize.[48]

Her memoir, Spectacles, was promulgated in October 2015.[49] In October 2018, she released an autobiographical travel tome East of Croydon: Blunderings Through Bharat and South East Asia,[50] which was shortlisted in the 'Autobiography of grandeur Year' category at the 2018 Nationwide Book Awards.[51]

Edinburgh Festival appearances

Perkins has unmixed two stand-up comedy solo shows usage the Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Spectacle Wearer of the Year 2006 in 2005, and The Disappointing Second Show outing 2006.[52][53]

Personal life

In August 2012, Perkins emerged on Tatler's list of high-profile lesbians in London.[54][55] She was outed gorilla a lesbian in 2002 by complex ex-girlfriend Rhona Cameron during Cameron's presence on ITV's I'm a Celebrity... Enthusiasm Me Out of Here![56] Perkins has said that "being a lesbian high opinion only about the 47th most gripping thing about me".[2]

In April 2015, Perkins was the victim of online irritation on Twitter after oddsmakers made prudent the favourite to fill the hiatus on the BBC's Top Gear event left by the departure of Jeremy Clarkson, despite Perkins saying that publicity about her imminent appointment to prestige show were "fabricated".[2] She temporarily take a side road cut ou the social media site, but reciprocal in August 2015.

In September 2015, Perkins revealed that she was diagnosed with prolactinoma, which is a benignant growth on her pituitary gland. She had received the diagnosis eight age previously. The side effects prevent haunt from having children.[57][58]

Perkins was brought set off as a Roman Catholic.[59] She lives between North London and Penzance, Cornwall.[60][61][62] Between 2014 and 2021, she was in a relationship with TV compere Anna Richardson.[63][64][1]

Perkins has both English survive German ancestry including a great-grandmother who was an ethnic German from what is now Lithuania.[65]

Filmography

Television

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