Richard Arnold
TV Presenter, author
A firmly established favourite on the nation’s most famous sofa GMTV’s Richard Arnold marks his ninth successful season with GMTV this year and when he’s not anchored to the sofa presenting his daily showbiz slot he is often out on the road or hosting for the past two summers the Richard Arnold Show on GMTV every Friday.
Richard also recently hosted the third series of Challenge TV’s biggest hit to date Take It Or Leave It from the makers of Deal Or No Deal. It remains the channel’s number one show.
Last autumn Richard appeared in Celebrity Are You Smarter Than A Ten Year Old on Sky One. It was the highest rated Celebrity special of the year, with Richard winning £100,000 for his chosen charity.
Richard has continued to add to his list of ‘acting’ roles starring ‘As Himself’ in ITV1’s Rock Rivals, previously he has appeared in BBC1’s Hustle, alongside Max Beesley in ITV1 drama Is This Love?, Footballers Wives and Channel 4’s acclaimed drama Shameless.
Richard hosted ITV1’s Soapstar Superchef in 2007, the daily live celebrity cook-off for twenty shows in 2006 he co-hosted The Animal Roadshow, currently airing on Animal Planet.
Richard co-hosted ITV1’s first live interactive TV quiz Soap Challenge. The show – screened against cricket coverage of The Ashes in its final days – won a 30 percent share of viewers peaking at three million on a Sunday afternoon.