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Sue Perkins
Sue Perkins

Sue Perkins

  • 55 years old
  • English
  • Actor, writer, producer, comedian and presenter

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Alan Partridge, Sue Perkins and Frank Skinner amongst ARIAS nominees

The nominees in the comedy category in the The Radio Academy Awards include Frank Skinner, Alan Partridge's podcast, Nature Table hosted by Sue Perkins, Robin Ince's Reality Tunnel and The Skewer.

British Comedy Guide, 30th March 2023

BAFTA TV Awards 2023 nominations

Am I Being Unreasonable?, Big Boys, Derry Girls and Ghosts are amongst the nominees for the BAFTA Television Awards 2023.

British Comedy Guide, 22nd March 2023

Sue Perkins records audio description for Dungeons & Dragons movie

Sue Perkins has recorded audio description for new film Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves.

British Comedy Guide, 14th March 2023

Just For Laughs London, review

It's a tough job launching a comedy festival in London, given the the city has hundreds of gigs a week anyway. Where Just For Laughs absolutely dominates downtown Montreal for a couple of weeks in July, you could easily be in London and be entirely unaware it was on.

Chortle, 6th March 2023

Bleak Expectations stage play gets West End run

Dickensian pastiche Bleak Expectations, a Radio 4 hit from 2007, is to take to the West End stage this summer with a run of headline guest stars.

British Comedy Guide, 15th February 2023

Sue Perkins on the art of comedy, extreme anxiety and her new Kiwi show

Sue Perkins tells Greg Bruce about what brought her to Auckland and why her life's sometimes no joke.

Greg Bruce, The New Zealand Herald, 5th February 2023

Sue Perkins reveals ADHD diagnosis

Sue Perkins has revealed has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

The former Great British Bake Off host, 53, made the revelations in a response to a Twitter post by Gomez guitarist Tom Gray, who admitted that he was 'creeping' towards his own diagnosis of the disorder.

Sharing her own experience, Sue told Tom that once she had been diagnosed, 'everything made sense' to her.

Niomi Harris, Daily Mail, 8th January 2023

Derry Girls stars drive World's Most Dangerous Roads for Dave

Dave has revived World's Most Dangerous Roads, with pairings in eight hour-long episodes including Derry Girls stars Saoirse-Monica Jackson and Jamie-Lee O'Donnell, stand-ups Ed Gamble and Lou Sanders, Joe Wilkinson and Zoe Lyons, Suzi Ruffell and Maisie Adam, Phil Wang and Pierre Novellie, Darren Harriott and Ria Lina, as well as Lara Ricote with Stephen Mangan and Will Mellor with Leigh Francis.

British Comedy Guide, 7th November 2022

Ten Edinburgh theatre shows about comedians

Kicking off our annual series of features, each previewing ten shows from the thousands at the Edinburgh Fringe next month, with a selection based around the art of comedy and those who perform it, real and fictional, and first-hand...

Chortle, 18th July 2022

Sue Perkins apologises for sharing false claims about MP

Sue Perkins is one of a number of high-profile Twitter users forced to apologise to Conservative MP Brendan Clarke-Smith for sharing false claims about a photograph of him, taken more than a decade ago.

Order Order, 12th July 2022

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