Lucy Beaumont set for May 2 Saturday Kitchen appearance
lucy beaumont is due to appear on Saturday Kitchen on May 2, giving the 42-year-old Hull native a fresh TV slot after a run that has included comedy, writing and reality television. The booking puts her back in front of a broad daytime audience at a time when her family links and former marriage are still part of the draw.
Gill Adams and Hull roots
Gill Adams, Beaumont’s mother, won the Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s Best New Play prize in 1997 and has contributed to Emmerdale and Doctors. She also played a fictionalised version of herself in Meet the Richardsons, while Beaumont and Adams are developing a travel programme together.
Beaumont has been direct about the scale of that partnership. “I just find it fascinating that I'm just so sure that with the amount of telly I've done now and how funny my mum is, if we were men, we would be in our second or third series. Now I'm so sure of it... I'm not just being flippant. I'm pretty sure about it... I think there's still just a long way to go,” she said on the White Wine Question Time podcast with Kate Thornton. For a viewer tuning in on May 2, that background turns her Saturday Kitchen appearance into more than a guest booking: it is another piece of a career built across stand-up, writing and TV formats.
2011 to 2024
Beaumont reached the finals of So You Think You're Funny in 2011 and won the Radio New Comedy Awards in 2012, then saw her debut Edinburgh Fringe show We Can Twerk It Out nominated for the Best Newcomer Award in 2014. Channel 4 commissioned Hullraisers in 2021, which she co-wrote with Anne-Marie O'Connor and Caroline Moran, and last year she took part in the inaugural series of Celebrity Traitors.
On that series, Claudia Winkleman assigned Beaumont the role of Faithful, but she was murdered in a face-to-face killing by Alan Carr, Cat Burns and Jonathan Ross before Carr went on to win the show. The sequence matters because it shows how quickly a single TV appearance can become part of a wider screen profile: Beaumont has already moved from panel-style comedy into scripted work, then into a flagship reality format that reached a much larger audience.
Jon Richardson and Elsie
Beaumont married comedian Jon Richardson in April 2015 after they were introduced through their mutual friend Roisin Conaty, and they had a daughter, Elsie, in 2016. Beaumont said the emergency C-section was a traumatic ordeal that left her fearing she might not survive, a detail that has shaped how she has discussed that period of her life.
Beaumont and Richardson separated in April 2024 after nine years of marriage, and she has said she would not talk about the separation or the marriage. That leaves Saturday Kitchen as the cleanest current read on her work: a televised appearance on May 2, with her mother’s profile, her own comedy credits and her past relationship still sitting in the background rather than driving the story.
