Helen Elizabeth Skelton is an English television presenter and actress. She co-presented the BBC children’s program Blue Peter from 2008 until 2013, and since 2014 has been a presenter on Countryfile.
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She also co-presented two series of the BBC One program Holiday Hit Squad alongside Angela Rippon and Joe Crowley.
Skelton was born on 19 July 1983, in Carlisle, Cumbria, England, and brought up on a dairy farm in the village of Kirkby Thore.
She attended its local Primary School, and then Appleby Grammar School, ultimately graduating from Cumbria Institute of the Arts, where she gained a BA degree in journalism. During her time at college, she worked as an extra on Coronation Street and Cutting It.
Skelton is a qualified tap dance teacher and has said that if she was not a broadcaster, she would be a teacher. Her brother Gavin is a professional footballer and has also been a player-manager.
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Is Helen Skelton married?
In December 2013, Skelton married England national rugby league team player Richie Myler, and gave birth to their first child, a boy, on 19 June 2015.
After Myler joined the Catalans Dragons club, they moved to France in September 2015. He currently plays for the Yorkshire club Leeds Rhinos. Their second son was born in April 2017 and their first daughter was born on 28 December 2021.
Skelton announced that she and Myler were no longer a couple via her Instagram account on 25 April 2022
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