Anna Richardson reveals new boyfriend after split from Sue Perkins  (2024)

Anna Richardson has revealed she has a new boyfriend, over a year on from her split from Sue Perkins.

The Naked Attraction presenter, 52, split from the former Bake Off host, 53, in June 2021 after eight years together, with a source stating at the time that they were both 'devastated'.

But 16 months after the break-up, Anna has found love once again and told in a new interview that she 'just got really, really lucky' to find someone so compatible with her pals.

Anna told of her relationship news while discussing her 'love language' in a chat with The Mirror.

She explained: This morning - I'm dating, I've got a boyfriend - and already my boyfriend has said to me "I haven't spent enough time with you", so his love language is time - he needs my time to feel loved.

'Whereas actually, I quite like to receive texts saying [something like] "I'm thinking about you and I love you". So people need to be aware of how their partner does their love language.'

Detailing how they met, she went on: 'I have been introduced to apps [while dating], but actually I ended up meeting somebody through friends of friends. Yeah, so again, I just got really, really lucky that someone was compatible in my friendship circle.'

Anna was previously with partner Charles Martin for 18 years prior to beginning a relationship with Sue in in 2013after meeting at a Halloween party.

At the time of her break-up with Sue, a source told The Sun:'It's really sad. Both Anna and Sue are devastated.

'We're all hoping they can patch things up and sort out their differences but for now it appears to be all over.'

Meanwhile, in May, the TV staradmitted that 'you never get used to heartbreak' following their split in a revealing interview.

The presenter spoke to OKmagazine about love as well as her fears of growing older, admitting she's 'filled with dread' at the prospect of what could happen in the future.

Speaking about the split, the host told the publication: 'I suppose I don't know whether you become more resilient as you get older, but heartbreak is still that mystery that needs to be solved, and how you get over it and become stronger'.

The couple, who dated for eight years, allegedly parted ways after Sue's reluctance to start a family, with Anna previously revealing she had thought about adopting a child and felt that 'time is running out' for her to do so.

Anna, who began dating Sue after her separation from her partner of 18-years Charles, went on to reveal, 'it’s a really fundamental and visceral realisation [if you haven’t had children] that, "Oh my God, I can’t do that anymore." Even if I wanted to.'

She addedthat she feels 'slow, inexorable dread' when she thinks about the next 30 years of her life, saying: 'It seems to be a bit of a decline. And it’s very, very difficult.'

MailOnline exclusively revealed in June that nobody else was involved in Sue and Anna's decision to split, which the couple made with 'a heavy heart'.

A source said: 'The split is as amicable as these things can ever be. After so long together it wasn't an easy decision to make and they both did so with heavy hearts.

'But Sue and Anna are determined to remain friends and keep in touch. Nobody else is involved and now the pair are throwing themselves into work.'

It was reported Anna moved out of their shared £2million North London home to live in Staffordshire to be close to her mum, who is caring for her father who is suffering from dementia.

Speaking to The Telegraph in 2015 about the start of her romance with Sue, Anna explained she had known Sue for years, but it was a meeting her at a party after her separation from Charles, that made her realise she felt something more than just friendship.

She gushed: 'When I was invited to the party, I was told Sue would be going and I felt, what, a frisson? A spark of interest? And I thought: "Hmm, that's interesting". There was something in the air.

'It was an extraordinary night. I was dancing on the table. It felt like a defining moment in my life.'

She wasn't keen on giving herself a label in regards her sexuality at the time, after she had previously spent almost two decades with a man.

'For me, it's just a case of I am who I am. I'm not interested in being labelled gay or straight, my sexuality is fluid. I just happen to have fallen in love with a woman - simple as that,' she explained.