Judi Love

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]

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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