Judith Adele Finnigan was born on 16 May 1948 and is an English television presenter and writer.
11 Facts About Judy Finnigan
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Judy Finnigan's debut novel Eloise, published in 2012, was a Sunday Times bestseller.
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Judy Finnigan was born in Newton Heath, Manchester, on 16 May 1948.
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Judy Finnigan then went on to attend Manchester High School for Girls, an independent school in the city, and later studied English and Drama at the University of Bristol.
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In 1971, Judy Finnigan joined Granada Television as a researcher and in 1974, she moved to Anglia Television in Norwich to become the first female reporter on the About Anglia news team.
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In 1980, Judy Finnigan returned to Granada in Manchester, working on a range of programmes including Flying Start, Granada Reports and Scramble.
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In July 2008, Judy Finnigan finally underwent a long-awaited knee operation and took a short leave of absence from the show to recuperate fully from the surgery.
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On 13 October 2014, it was announced that Judy Finnigan had joined ITV chat show Loose Women as a regular panellist.
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Judy Finnigan presented a series of video-only specials, looking at a particular character of Coronation Street and were released in 1995 to mark the soap's 35th anniversary.
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In 1998, Judy Finnigan presented the ITV Watchdog style show We Can Work It Out in its first series before Caron Keating took over.
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Judy Finnigan met Madeley in 1982 when they worked on separate programmes for Granada TV.