Lesley Judd was born on 20 December 1946 and is a British former television presenter and dancer, best known as a long-serving host of the BBC children's programme Blue Peter.
15 Facts About Lesley Judd
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In 1967, Judd was one of the "children" dancers on Gillian Lynne's BBC2 show Hey Riddle Diddle starring Roy Castle and Nelson Riddle.
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Lesley Judd was one of the background dancers in the filmed musical Half a Sixpence and had a small speaking role in the first Monty Python film And Now for Something Completely Different, and the Christopher Lee horror film I, Monster.
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Lesley Judd made a brief return to dancing in 1976 when she joined Pan's People on Top of the Pops for a one-off routine, and later she often danced on the BBC show All Star Record Breakers.
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When her first marriage, to Derek Fowlds, broke down in 1975 and her ex-husband threatened to 'tell all' to the tabloid press, Sally James was lined up to replace her on Blue Peter, but the storm blew over and Lesley Judd remained with the programme.
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Later, Lesley Judd married a Blue Peter film editor Terry Gabell.
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Relph died of a lung embolism at 48, by which time Lesley Judd had moved to a farmhouse near Cahors in France with retired radio station manager Peter Thornton.
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Lesley Judd's harness slipped, leaving Judd with no support should she lose her grip on the rope.
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Lesley Judd appeared with Billy Boyle on an ITV series for children, Dance Crazy, tracing the history of dance and was a regular panellist on game shows such as Punchlines.
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Lesley Judd later featured as 'The Mole' in the educational game show The Adventure Game, and was co-presenter of the technology game show The Great Egg Race, the computer-related Micro Live from 1984 and Pets in Particular.
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Lesley Judd was a presenter on Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4 from 1982 to 1988, and appeared as a television newsreader in the film Threads.
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Lesley Judd was a presenter on the London radio station LBC during the late 1980s, later co-hosting with Steve Allen, at the same time presenting various programmes on television for the Open University.
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In 1992, Lesley Judd presented a daytime interview programme on UK Channel 4, Time To Talk.
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Now living near Toulouse, France, Lesley Judd is employed as a conference organiser.
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Lesley Judd appeared in December 2017 in a tribute programme to fellow Blue Peter presenter John Noakes, who had died earlier that year.