Background
Richardson was born on 27 September 1970 in Wellington, Shropshire, England.
Richardson was born on 27 September 1970 in Wellington, Shropshire, England.
Richardson was educated at The School of Street Mary and Street Anne, a High Church girls" boarding independent school, in the village of Abbots Bromley near the historic market town of Rugeley, Staffordshire.
Richardson started her television presenting career on The Big Breakfast on Channel 4, and thereafter for the next six years appeared regularly in television programmes including Love Bites for Independent Television, for which she was nominated for an RTS award. Richardson went on to present Love Bites Back, Dream Ticket, Des Resident and the Independent Television series Big Screen, where she met and interviewed a number of prominent Hollywood personalities. Richardson has also written and produced television programmes including Number Waste Like Home.
Turn Back Your Body Clock.
And Channel 4"s series You Are What You Eat. Richardson returned to television presenting on Channel 4’s Supersize vs Superskinny which covered the topic of unconventional dietary habits with an emphasis on celebrities.
She tried radical regimes "in a quest to expose uncomfortable truths about the quest for size zero". Richardson fronted Channel 4"s The Sex Education Show, broadcast from 9 September to 14 October 2008.
The Sex Education Show returned in March 2009 as The Sex Education Show versus
Pornography. A third series The Sex Education Show: Am I Normal? was broadcast on July 2010. The fourth series, called The Sex Education Show: Stop Pimping Our Kids, aired from 19–21 April 2011.
The fifth series began on 19 July 2011.
Richardson presents Channel 4"s Secret Eaters, which began on 16 May 2012. She also presents How Not to Get Old alongside Louise Redknapp which began on 7 August 2013. Richardson and Andi Osho present Supershoppers, which began on Channel 4 on 1 February 2016.
Richardson sued Arnold Schwarzenegger and two of his aides, Sean Walsh and publicist Sheryl Main, over comments they made about her claims that he groped her.
The case was settled in 2006. Having been in an 18-year relationship with film director Charles Martin, in December 2014 Richardson revealed that she is dating Sue Perkins.