Vanessa Feltz

She vowed she'd never do it. She lied. Vanessa Feltz has done the unthinkable and written a joltingly honest autobiography. She's spent thirty-five years in the public eye: 'Vanessa's Friends Say She's Drinking Custard!' Vanessa seizes her chance to set the record straight in this warm, witty, intensely human story. She spares no one's blushes, including her own!

You think you already know all there is to know about Vanessa? You don't know the half of it. Brace yourself for the achingly funny, deeply moving untold story: the behind the scenes lowdown on the parents who planned her wedding before she could walk, how she became the nation's second-most-famous fat person, life as the British Oprah, feuding with Madonna and Miss Piggy aboard the Big Breakfast bed, an excruciatingly public divorce, gruesome gastric band surgery, a sixteen-year skirmish with an ageing boybander and finding herself shockingly single at sixty-one.

Author Biography: Vanessa Feltz is a television personality, broadcaster and journalist. She cut her teeth on ITV's This Morning, became the 'British Oprah' presenting Vanessa, Britain's first US-style talk show, reigned aboard the Big Breakfast bed and had an iconic meltdown on the first ever Celebrity Big Brother. Vanessa presented BBC Radio 2's Early Breakfast Show and BBC Radio London's Breakfast Show from 2003 to 2022, before hosting a daily TalkTV politics and current affairs show. In June 2024 she joined Global's LBC, where she presents a Saturday show. She has presented and taken part in a raft of TV shows including Strictly Come Dancing, Celebs Go Dating, The Weakest Link, Cosmetic Surgery Live and Value for Money. She is also a columnist at the Daily Express. Vanessa is the proud holder of three Pointless trophies.