Fern Britton

Fern Britton
Britton in 2009
Born	(1957-07-17) 17 July 1957 (age 67) London, England
Education	Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (BA)
Occupations	Television presenter author
Years active	1980–present
Employer(s)	BBC (1994–2000, 2009–) ITV (1999–2010, 2017–) Channel 4 (2009, 2011, 2016) Channel 5 (2021–)
Spouses	Clive Jones ​ ​ (m. 1988; div. 2000)​ Phil Vickery ​ ​ (m. 2000; sep. 2020)​
Children	4
Parents	Tony Britton Ruth Hawkins
Relatives	Jasper Britton (half-brother)

Fern Britton is an English television presenter and author. She co-presented Breakfast Time in the 1980s and hosted the cookery game show Ready Steady Cook between 1994 and 2000 on BBC Two.

Britton presented ITV's This Morning programme from 1999 to 2009. In 2012, she participated in Strictly Come Dancing, where she was paired with professional dancer Artem Chigvintsev. Since 2010, she has also published a number of bestselling novels and books of short stories and non-fiction.

In March 2024, she was a finalist on Celebrity Big Brother, and finished in 5th place.