Biography of Fearne Wood (a.k.a.: Fearne Cotton)

Fearne Wood (née Cotton; born 3 September 1981) is an English broadcaster and author. She began her career in the late 1990s presenting various children's television shows for GMTV, CITV and CBBC. From 2002 to 2021, Cotton presented the BBC One music show Top of the Pops. In 2007, she presented The Xtra Factor, an ITV2 spin-off from the main show. From 2008 to 2018, Cotton was a team captain on the ITV2 comedy panel show Celebrity Juice. She has also co-presented some of the Red Nose Day and Children in Need telethons.

In 2007, Cotton became the first regular female presenter of the Radio 1 Chart Show, which she co-hosted with Reggie Yates for two years. She went on to present her own Radio 1 show, airing every weekday morning from 2009 to 2015. She joined BBC Radio 2 in 2016.

In 2018, Cotton began presenting Happy Place, a podcast available to online streaming platforms. She has also released eight self-help books, two children's books, and four books on healthy eating.