Celebrity Traitors' Lucy Beaumont: The star's career and "guilt" following her split with Jon Richardson
She's managed to avoid being murdered on the show up to now...
Lucy Beaumont is having a crack at the phenomenal murder game Celebrity Traitors, but what else has Jon Richardson’s ex-wife appeared on?
Hosted by Claudia Winkleman, this first incarnation of the celeb special maintains the winning formula of BBC One’s golden goose.
Contestants are split into Faithfuls and Traitors and must endure daily missions that contribute to a charity kitty. Faithfuls are at the mercy of the “murdering hour” each night and must smoke out Traitors while their cloaked enemies try to avoid detection.
If that wasn’t dramatic enough, episodes feature roundtables where the cast pick apart each other’s gameplay before voting to banish.
Other cast members include Slow Horses star Nick Mohammed, and broadcasters Stephen Fry, Jonathan Ross and Alan Carr. As fans continue to enjoy Lucy’s confusion over who’s who in the game, here we dissect her career and personal life.
What does Lucy Beaumont do?
Lucy’s feet are firmly planted in the comedy world after a brief spell in acting.
From 2011 onward – she was a So You Think You’re Funny competition runner-up that year – the star garnered attention for winning the BBC Radio New Comedy Awards and was nominated for the Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2014.
When she’s not appearing on panel programmes or reality TV titles like Would I Lie to You? and Celebrity Gogglebox, Lucy tours the UK and Ireland. Her observational and deadpan-style comedy routines are often built around Hull-based anecdotes.
She penned a book in 2021 and set up the charitable project, Backpack Buddies, two years earlier. It helps kids that are in need of meals during school breaks. Hull Children’s University, Mothershare, and the Great Laugh campaign are further causes she proudly supports.
Lucy currently co-hosts the Lucy & Sam’s Perfect Brains podcast with Australian stand-up Sam Campbell.
What TV shows has Lucy Beaumont been in?
The year 2018 marked Lucy’s debut on our television screens. She was a guest on husband-at-the-time Jon Richardson’s U&Dave series Ultimate Worrier. The show saw the panel talking about and ranking worries in order of severity.
Lucy was a team captain on Christmas University Challenge the following year before joining the rotational guest line-up for 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.
Arguably her biggest job to date was mockumentary, Meet the Richardsons. She and comedian and actor Jon portrayed fictionalised versions of themselves for five series in total. Also playing self-caricatures were professor Brian Cox, Rob Beckett, Jason Donovan, Craig Charles and Amanda Abbington, among many other famous faces.
Richard Osman’s House of Games, The Weakest Link, Big Zuu’s Big Eats, The Last Leg, Blankety Blank, and The Great Stand Up to Cancer Bake Off employed Lucy’s services over the years too. As did Have I Got News For You, The Wheel and Taskmaster.
For two series, the comedian co-wrote the sitcom Hullraisers alongside Anne-Marie O’Connor and Caroline Moran for Channel 4.
Celebrity Traitors: Why did Lucy Beaumont and Jon Richardson split up?
After walking down the aisle in 2015 and welcoming their daughter Elise Louise a year later, Lucy and Jon officially divorced in 2024.
The ex-couple’s public announcement read: “After nine years of marriage, we would like to announce that we have separated. We have jointly and amicably made the difficult decision to divorce and go our separate ways.
“As our only priority is managing this difficult transition for our daughter, we would ask that our privacy is respected at this sensitive time to protect her well-being.”
Although neither individual expressed any reasoning behind their split in the intervening time, Lucy was previously concerned that she’d “made a mistake” by marrying Jon.
“One thing I think that’s really hard in a marriage is when the other person can’t admit when they’re wrong,” she explained on Ultimate Worrier.
“I sometimes feel guilty”
Whilst speaking to OK! Magazine, Lucy revealed that she and Jon had made a pact not to discuss their split publicly.
“People might think I should talk about it because we were so public and everyone knew us as a couple, but I won’t, and not because there’s any animosity,” she said.
“We both agreed that while it might be weird for other people not hearing anything about it, we wouldn’t talk about anything to do with the marriage or each other.”
Meanwhile, in conversation with The Sunday Times, Lucy noted: “I don’t regret anything. I sometimes feel guilty that I talked about my daughter and my marriage, and my mum and my dad.
“I think partly I was feeling grateful, grateful that I was getting the work, grateful that I was being interviewed, and feeling like I had to sacrifice and share everything.”
Upon her resignation as co-director, Jon reportedly paid his ex-wife £1.625 million for her shares in their firm This Guy at Night Limited.
Who are Lucy Beaumont’s parents?
Lucy was raised single-handedly by her mother, Gill Adams. Gill is a well-respected writer and starred in Meet the Richardsons.
During the 1997 edition of Edinburgh Festival, Gill won the Fringe First Award for Best New Play. She also boasts writing credits on Emmerdale and Doctors.
The name of Lucy’s biological father remains unknown.
Where is Lucy Beaumont’s accent from? Where does she live?
Lucy’s accent originates from the port city of Hull (or Kingston upon Hull, officially). Hull is located in the East Riding area of Yorkshire, approximately 25 miles inland from the North Sea.
She and Jon remain joint owners of a detached Yorkshire home and a North London apartment.
Are Lucy Beaumont and Sam Campbell dating?
Lucy hosts the Perfect Brains podcast with Australian actor and comedian, Sam Campbell. Sam moved to the UK in 2022 and they launched the podcast together in 2024.
The pair originally met on the 2023 series of Taskmaster. Sam actually won the show. It is often wondered if Lucy and Sam are dating, however neither Lucy or Sam have confirmed or denied this.
What book has Lucy Beaumont written?
Published by Monoray in September 2021, Lucy’s book is titled An official description called it a “hilarious debut on the trials and tribulations of motherhood”.
A description reads: “Lucy shares the unpredictable craziness of being a mum in this brilliant and laugh-out-loud ‘mumoir’. Mums everywhere will recognise the madness of it all. Like when Lucy was hospitalised during her third trimester with chest pains but it turned out to be a burrito. Or when she was so tired at the park she forgot her own child’s name.”
Jon featured heavily in the book, as Lucy discussed navigating parenthood together.
Lucy Beaumont in Celebrity Traitors
At the time of writing, Lucy is one of the Faithful players on Celebrity Traitors. She is yet to come up with any concrete theories on who could be a Traitor.
Ahead of the show’s premiere, Lucy said The Traitors was “the best telly I’ve ever seen”. Asked what she’d bring to the game, she revealed: “You can imagine what you’d be like, but until I’m in it I just can’t say.
“People who know me have said I’ll either be the worst person they’ve ever had on the show or I’ll win it. Nothing in between.”
Strategy-wise, Lucy didn’t have anything up her sleeve: I don’t think game plans work,” she added. “I’ve seen people think they have a game plan but it always comes undone. It’s just luck that they’ve said the right thing at the right time and were aligned with the right people.
“I don’t have a plan for anything, I’m going to go with the flow.”
Who else is on Celebrity Traitors?
The Celebrity Traitors line-up is a doozy. Comedian Alan Carr, The Thursday Murder Club’s Celia Imrie, and singer Charlotte Church are standout faces.
Don’t forget Jonathan Ross, filmmaker David Olusoga, ex-rugby pro Joe Marler, comedians Joe Wilkinson and singer Cat Burns. Good Morning Britain’s Kate Garraway, actor Mark Bonnar.
Stars who have already left the show include EastEnders actress Tameka Empson, YouTuber Niko Omilana, popstar Paloma Faith, How to Train Your Dragon’s Ruth Codd and Olympian Tom Daley.
When is Celebrity Traitors on next?
Celebrity Traitors is scheduled to resume on BBC One and BBC iPlayer tonight (October 22) at 9pm. This is the fifth episode of the series and lasts 60 minutes.
The show will continue tomorrow night with another edge-of-your-seat instalment.
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