Sue Perkins

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Sue Perkins
Birth name	Susan Elizabeth Perkins
Born	September 22, 1969 (1969-09-22) (age 38) East Dulwich, London,England
Genres	Comedy
Notable works and roles	Mel and Sue

Susan Elizabeth Perkins (born September 22, 1969 in East Dulwich, London), more commonly known as Sue Perkins, is an English radio and television presenter, actress, and writer.^[1]

Contents 1 Mel and Sue 2 Television 3 Radio 4 Edinburgh Festival appearances 5 Personal life 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Mel and Sue

Perkins is best known for her collaborations, especially presenting comedy material with Mel Giedroyc. As Mel and Sue the duo were short-listed for the Daily Express Best Newcomers Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 1993. After a few years writing for French & Saunders they hosted a lunchtime show on Channel 4 called Light Lunch, and an early evening version, Late Lunch. The two met whilst students at Cambridge, where Perkins was a student at New Hall, and were both members of the long established comedy performance troupe, the Footlights.

[edit] Television

Perkins has also been a presenter on Channel 4's RI:SE and appeared in Celebrity Big Brother during 2002 in aid of a number of charities. During the series she had some notable dancing moments with eventual winner Mark Owen of Take That. Over the years she has made numerous appearances on BBC TV shows Have I Got News For You, Room 101, Celebrity Weakest Link, Question Time and Newsnight; she has often joked that the BBC pay her a regular wage for "blabbering on random shows".

She hosted Good Evening, Rockall (second series), a short-lived news orientated panel game shown on BBC Choice. She appeared on the 7/10 and 9/10 episodes of BBC Four's 2006 language quiz show Never Mind the Full Stops. She was a team captain on ITV's Win, Lose or Draw Late and appeared on Celebrity Masterchef in 2006. Perkins also performed in early 2007, on Celebrity Poker.

In April 2007 she participated in Edwardian Supersize Me for BBC with food critic Giles Coren, spending a week eating the equivalent of a wealthy Edwardian couple's food, whilst wearing a corset. The film crew dubbed her 'Soup' her-kins. The duo returned, in May 2008, with a series called The Supersizers Go... where they live, for a week, eating food based upon certain diets. The first programme saw them survive for a week on WWII rations, the second covers the English Restoration period, the third the Victorian period and the fourth the Seventies.

Perkins was a guest on News Knight with Sir Trevor McDonald, aired on the 15th of July 2007, along with regular Reginald D. Hunter and Marcus Brigstocke. In August 2008 Perkins is scheduled to appear in the reality tv talent show-themed television series, Maestro on BBC Two.^[2]

[edit] Radio

Perkins is also an occasional panel member of Radio 4's The News Quiz and has made regular appearances on BBC Radio 2's It's Been a Bad Week. She occasionally appears as a panellist on another popular Radio 4 show, Just a Minute.

She was the chair of BBC Radio 4's The 99p Challenge until the show finished in 2004. Perkins appeared every day in the last half hour of Mark Radcliffe's afternoon radio show on BBC Radio 2, when he sat in for Steve Wright.

Since 2006 Perkins has been a panelist on a new Radio 4 show, The Personality Test, a quiz show about the host, presented by a different host each week. Past hosts include Gyles Brandreth and Rick Wakeman, and other panelists include Robin Ince, Lucy Porter, and Will Smith.

While presenting a Radio 4 documentary on the Lake District's competition The World's Biggest Liar she rather controversially ended up winning it, donating the £25 prize to a local animal sanctuary. ^[3]

[edit] Edinburgh Festival appearances

Perkins has performed two stand-up comedy solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, "Spectacle Wearer Of The Year 2006" in 2005 and "The Disappointing Second Show" in 2006.

[edit] Personal life

Perkins currently lives in Penzance, Cornwall. Her maternal grandmother was Jewish, Perkins herself was brought up as a Catholic, but now considers herself 'not religious'. She has been a reluctantly open lesbian since 2002, when ex-girlfriend Rhona Cameron outed her during the latter's stint on ITV's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!.^[4]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Sue Perkins at the Internet Movie Database
• Official MySpace
• Official Mel and Sue website

Cultural offices
Preceded by Henry Naylor	Footlights President 1990–1991	Succeeded by Dan Gaster