Cherry Kathleen Healey (born 1980 as Cherry Kathleen Chadwyck-Healey)[1] is a British television presenter, frequently featuring in self-titled lifestyle documentaries on the BBC.

Cherry Healey
NationalityBritish
EducationCheltenham Ladies' College
Alma materRoyal Central School of Speech and Drama
OccupationTelevision presenter
Years active2009–present
Spouse
Roly Allen
(m. 2010⁠–⁠2016)
Children2

Early life

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Healey is the daughter of Nicholas Gerald Chadwyck-Healey (son of Sir Charles Arthur Chadwyck-Healey, 4th Baronet) and Alison Jill, daughter of Dr N. Stevens, of Morris House, Thaxted, Essex.[1] She has three brothers. She attended Cheltenham Ladies' College until 1999.[2]

Career

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Best known for her work with documentaries on BBC Three, including studies on drinking, childbirth, body issues, dating, and money,[3] Healey frequently relates documentaries to her own life both during the programmes and on her blog on the BBC website.[4] She presented a mini-series called Britain's Favourite Supermarket Foods on BBC One.

From 2015 until 2019, Healey presented the E4 spin-off The Jump: On the Piste.

In 2018, Healey was a co-founder of The Hotbed Collective podcast, along with writer Anniki Sommerville and journalist Lisa Williams.[5]

Healey has also written for several publications including Grazia, You Me Baby magazine, and Cellardoor online.

She has co-presented eight series of Inside the Factory for BBC Two alongside Gregg Wallace. In 2016, Healey took part in Celebrity MasterChef on BBC One. In 2017–2018 her BBC series Find My First Love is being syndicated in the US on FYI.

Personal life

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In Summer 2010, Healey married her long-term partner Roly Allen. They have a daughter, born 2009,[6][7] and a son, born 2013. The couple later separated and divorced.[8][9]

Television work

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Year Title Role Notes
2024 Richard Osman's House of Games Contestant 5 episodes
2024 SAS: Who Dares Wins Contestant 7 episodes
2022 Women's Health: Breaking the Taboos Presenter 4 episodes[10]
2021— 10 Years Younger in 10 Days Presenter
2017 The Truth About... Presenter
The Best of British Takeaways
The Health Detectives
2016— Find My First Love Presenter
2016 Celebrity MasterChef Participant
2016— What to Buy and Why Presenter 1 series
2015 The Jump: On the Piste 2 series
2015— Inside the Factory Co-presenter 5 series
2015 Britain's Supermarket Revolution: What's in It for Us? Presenter 1 episode
2013 Cherry Healey: Old Before My Time Herself 3 episodes
Secrets of the Sales 1 episode
Cherry Healey's Property Virgins 2 episodes
The Year of Making Love 6 episodes
2012–2013 Britain's Favourite Supermarket Foods 3 episodes
2012 Cherry Healey: How to Get a Life 6 episodes
Cherry Healey: Like A Virgin 1 episode
2011 Cherry's Parenting Dilemmas
Cherry's Body Dilemmas
Cherry's Cash Dilemmas
Cherry Healey: Magician's Assistant
Is Breast Best? Cherry Healey Investigates
2010 Cherry Gets Married
Cherry Goes Dating
Cherry Goes Drinking
Cherry Gets Pierced
Cherry Has A Baby
2009 Drinking with the Girls

References

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  1. ^ a b Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 741
  2. ^ "List of Baronetages". Archived from the original on 10 October 2010. Retrieved 19 October 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ "Our good and bad relationship with money". BBC Three. Archived from the original on 24 December 2011. Retrieved 15 August 2011.
  4. ^ "Cherry Healey's Personal Blog". BBC Three. Archived from the original on 26 October 2010. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
  5. ^ "The orgasm gap". Evening Standard. 2 August 2019. p. A20.
  6. ^ "Mr R. Allen and Miss C. Chadwyck-Healey". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
  7. ^ "Cherry Gets Married". BBC Three. Archived from the original on 24 September 2010. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
  8. ^ "The Big Chat: Cherry Healey on why she'll always be open about her life". xpose.ie. Virgin Media. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  9. ^ Healey, Cherry (26 March 2017). "How being a single mum shattered my prejudices" – via www.bbc.com.
  10. ^ "Women's Health: Breaking the Taboos". radiotimes.com. Retrieved 5 August 2022.