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Judi Love
English stand-up comedian and presenter (born 1980) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Judi Love (born Judy Veronica Thomas; 4 June 1980) is an English stand-up comedian and presenter. She is a regular panellist on the ITV talk show Loose Women. In 2020, Love appeared on the first all-black panel in the show's 25-year history, alongside Charlene White, Brenda Edwards, and Kéllé Bryan; the panel has appeared many times since then. She competed on the BBC competition series MasterChef, finishing in third place; the nineteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing, finishing in tenth place; and the thirteenth series of Taskmaster, finishing in last place.
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Early and personal life
Love was born on 4 June 1980 in Hackney, London, where she now lives,[1] to Jamaican parents and is the youngest of five children. She spent the majority of her youth in and around the East London area.[2] Love studied a degree in Community Arts and Social Science and a Masters in Social Work from the Tavistock Institute.[2]
Career
Love began comedy when she performed a set in front of her class for a module, in which she revealed the comedic side of caring for her mother, who died in 2009 from dementia.[3] In 2011, Love made her professional stage debut with a show titled Laughter Is Healing.[4] Love hosted the 2019 London Critics' Circle Awards,[5] and in 2020, she began appearing as a panellist on the ITV talk show Loose Women.[6][7][8] Love also appeared on Celebrity MasterChef in July 2020, in which she was a finalist.[9] In 2021, Love was announced as a contestant on the nineteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing.[10] She was eliminated on 31 October 2021, finishing in tenth place.[11] Love then starred in series 13 of Taskmaster. On occasion, she deputises for regular DJs on BBC Radio 2.
In March 2025, she starred in the first series of LOL: Last One Laughing UK, hosted by Jimmy Carr & Roisin Conaty, alongside Richard Ayoade, Sara Pascoe, Lou Sanders, Rob Beckett, Bob Mortimer, Joe Wilkinson, Joe Lycett, Daisy May Cooper & Harriet Kemsley
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