Fern Britton

Fern M. Philomena Britton is an English television presenter and author. After beginning her career as a continuity announcer and a newsreader, she went on to co-present Breakfast Time in the 1980s and hosted the cookery game show Ready Steady Cook between 1994 and 2000 on BBC One. Britton presented the ITV daytime programme This Morning from 1999 to 2009. She also co-presented the British Soap Awards between 2006 and 2008 and All Star Mr & Mrs between 2008 and 2010. Following her departure from This Morning, she went on to present Fern Britton Meets... for the BBC between 2009 and 2017 and Fern for Channel 4 in 2011. She also presented The Big Allotment Challenge for the BBC between 2014 and 2015 and fronted a revival of Watercolour Challenge for Channel 5 in 2022. Britton is also an author, having published a number of bestselling novels and books varying from short stories to non-fiction, several of which have featured in The Sunday Times bestseller list. She also appeared as a contestant on the tenth series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2012, and was a housemate on the twenty-third series of Celebrity Big Brother in 2024.