Sue Perkins has new partner five years after ‘devastating’ Anna Richardson split
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Sue Perkins has shared that she has a new partner for the first time, five years after she split from TV presenter Anna Richardson.
Speaking to Elizabeth Day on the How To Fail podcast, the comedian and presenter, 57, did not name her partner, keeping details of her private life under wraps.
She did, though, share a small domestic snapshot of how they have been getting through a difficult patch together.
“My partner’s not very well, and I was very aware that making the bread was such an intense diversionary tactic,” Perkins said. “So I helped her. And we silently made a very complicated bread.”
How To Fail has become a regular place for celebrities to open up. In an episode released last year, Adolescence star Erin Doherty spoke about accepting she’s gay after a “mind-blowing” relationship.
Sue Perkins and Anna Richardson relationship
Perkins previously dated TV presenter Anna Richardson, with the pair splitting in 2021 after seven years together.
At the time, a source told The Sun: “It’s really sad. Both Anna and Sue are devastated.”
Before their split, Richardson had spoke about how she was considering adopting a child.
She said on ITV show Loose Women in 2017 that she had been thinking about starting her “own little family”.
Richardson, who hosted daring Channel 4 dating show Naked Attraction, said: “I’m sad actually careering into 50, I am sad that I’ve not had my babies so I’m considering, I can’t say for Sue, but I’m considering looking at adoption and trying to just create our own little family I think, it’s important to me.”
According to The Mirror, a disagreement about whether to start a family led to their split, with Perkins wanting to hold off due to her “work schedule and travelling”.
‘All that love can be repurposed into a friendship’
In 2024, Perkins appeared on Richardson’s podcast, It Can’t Just Be Me, with the former couple talking about how they moved their relationship from romantic to friendship.
The duo cut off contact “for a long time” to try and heal after they split, before they came back together as friends.
Perkins said on the podcast: “All that love can be repurposed into a friendship, I really believe that.”
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