‘The most reluctant’ GMB’s Richard Madeley explains wife Judy Finnigan’s TV disappearance | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV

Richard Madeley, 63, has spoken up about how his wife Judy has been reluctant to appear on TV over the years. He explained that while he was happy and comfortable being on TV, his wife Judy Finnigan was not, even during the duo’s heyday of their presenting partnership. 

Richard added that his wife was the most reluctant, but best, TV presenter he had ever met. 

In their joint ventures, he said that Judy writes books and manages the Richard and Judy book club alongside himself. 

The two also run a newspaper column together in The Express.

Richard told The Sunday Times yesterday: “Judy would happily never go into a television studio again, she’s just not interested,” he said. 

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 “A bit weird at first,” Richard said, responding to the question about being on TV without Judy. 

“Although we both started many years before we got together, I didn’t meet Judy until 1982. 

“I’d done four years by then, at Border and Yorkshire and Granada.

“And she’d been at the BBC and then Anglia.”