For her radio show, see Fearne Cotton (radio show).
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Fearne Cotton
Cotton in 2014
Born
(1981-09-03) 3 September 1981 (age 42)
Northwood, London, England
Other names
Fearne Wood
Education
Haydon School
Occupations
Broadcaster
author
Years active
1996–present
Spouse
Jesse Wood
(m. 2014)
Children
2
Relatives
Ronnie Wood (father-in-law) Billy Cotton (great-granduncle) Sir Bill Cotton, CBE (first cousin, twice removed)
Website
officialfearnecotton.com
Fearne Wood[1] (néeCotton; born 3 September 1981)[2] 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.
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.[citation needed] She has also released eight self-help books, two children's books, and four books on healthy eating.[3]
^Bonet, Anna (6 October 2022). "Fearne Cotton: 'I really want to feel well'". inews.co.uk. Archived from the original on 7 January 2023. Retrieved 7 January 2023. [Quoting Cotton:] 'I am Fearne Wood. It is just such a hassle to change, what with the books and everything over the years. If someone comes up to me saying, "Are you Fearne Cotton?" Jesse's like, "Wood!"' She laughs. 'But I like having the same surname as my kids and all that jazz.'
^@fearnecotton (3 September 2017). "Thanks for having me planet earth" – via Instagram.
^"Fearne Cotton". www.penguin.co.uk. Archived from the original on 12 October 2022. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
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...
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captain. This was the first series to feature Holly Willoughby and FearneCotton as team captains. The guest round for these episodes was entitled 'Have...
discussing the week's news. FearneCotton and Holly Willoughby were the show's original team captains. In December 2018, Cotton announced that she would...
Mac would cover FearneCotton's show on BBC Radio 1 weekdays from 10:00 to 12:45, whilst Cotton was on maternity leave, until Cotton's return in September...
with Jamie Laing joining Hope on drivetime. In 2021, North replaced FearneCotton to co-present the Christmas and New Year editions of Top of the Pops...
Arena. Billy Cotton was the great-great-uncle of TV and radio presenter FearneCotton. The First Mrs. Fraser (1932) Variety (1935) Music Hall Parade (1939)...
restaurants and salons. Interior Design Masters was hosted by presenter FearneCotton for one series in 2019, and then from 2021 Alan Carr and judged by former...
debut mainstream score on the film, Mary Shelley. On 28 September 2020, FearneCotton announced that she was releasing "Happy Place", the album which features...
2011 and in August 2012, the Reading and Leeds Festival (both with FearneCotton). He presented coverage of T in the Park 2012, alongside Edith Bowman...
broadcast on 17 July 2005 at 7.00 pm with presenter FearneCotton. After the move to Sundays, Cotton continued to host with a different guest presenter...
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he married in 2003. Wood began dating TV presenter FearneCotton in 2011. On 21 February 2013, Cotton gave birth to a son, Rex Rayne Wood. The couple were...
co-presented Top of the Pops until the end of the series, replacing FearneCotton while she was away. In total she appeared on the show ten times including...
following a comment she made in an interview with NME magazine about FearneCotton, calling her a "devil woman". Oliver made a brief appearance in May...
wearing Gilbert, making TV shows from his bedroom, and her impressions of FearneCotton and mockumentary of Natalie Cassidy "Sonia off Eastenders". In 2012...
ISBN 9781419734670 "FearneCotton on why she's against clean eating and the advice she'd give her younger self". Retrieved 26 November 2019. "FearneCotton’s Cook Happy...
members Cheryl Cole and Kimberley Walsh, Ben Shephard, Ronan Keating, FearneCotton, Denise Van Outen, Chris Moyles and Gary Barlow, who had spearheaded...
February until 12 March 2015 on ITV2. Paddy McGuinness, Bill Oddie and FearneCotton appeared in all episodes in this series. Official Viewing Figures are...