Lesley Judd

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Lesley Judd (born 20 December 1946, London, UK) is an English actress and TV presenter, best known as a long-serving host of the BBC children's programme Blue Peter. Replacing Valerie Singleton in 1972, she presented alongside John Noakes and Peter Purves, a partnership that lasted until 1978 and remains the show's longest-running line-up. Before then, she had appeared as part of the dance troupe the Young Generation on several TV shows and also had a small role in the first Monty Python film, And Now For Something Completely Different, made in 1971. <p>After leaving Blue Peter, she featured as "The Mole" in the educational game show The Adventure Game, and was co-presenter of both the technology gameshow The Great Egg Race and the computer-related Micro Live. She also hosted the ever popular British radio show Woman's Hour from 1982 to 1988, and appeared as a television newsreader in the film Threads (1984). <p>She now lives in France and works as a conference organiser. Although she has...