Fearne Cotton
Fearne Wood (née Cotton; born 3 September 1981) is an English broadcaster and author. She began her career in the late 1990s as a children’s television presenter for GMTV, CITV and CBBC. She went on to present various television shows, including Top of the Pops (2004–2020), Love Island (2006), The Xtra Factor (2007), and Interior Design Masters (2019), as well as the Children in Need (2005–2017) and Red Nose Day (2007, 2009, 2011) telethons. From 2008 to 2018, Cotton was a team captain on the ITV2 comedy panel show Celebrity Juice.
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| Born | 3 September 1981 Northwood, London, England |
| Other names | Fearne Wood |
| Education | Haydon School |
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| Years active | 1996–present |
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| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Ronnie Wood (father-in-law) Billy Cotton (great-granduncle) Sir Bill Cotton, CBE (first cousin, twice removed) |
| Website | officialfearnecotton |
In 2007, Cotton became the first regular female presenter of the Radio 1 Chart Show, which she co-presented with Reggie Yates for two years. She went on to present her own Radio 1 show, airing every weekday morning from 2009 to 2015. She joined BBC Radio 2 in 2016.
In 2018, Cotton began presenting Happy Place, a podcast focusing on wellbeing and mental health, available to online streaming platforms. She has also released eight self-help books, two children's books, and four books on healthy eating.