Matt Richardson

 Matthew Jeffrey Richardson (born 28 May 1991) is an English broadcaster and comedian, well-known as a co-presenter on the ITV2 spin-off series The Xtra Factor with Caroline Flack in 2013. In 2016, Richardson became the drive time presenter on the digital radio station Virgin Radio UK.Richardson has also co-presented Celebrity Haunted Hotel Live and Celebrity Haunted Mansion with Christine Lampard on UKTV's W channel, and he competed in the thirteenth series of Dancing on Ice, as a replacement for Rufus Hound and was the 3rd contestant to be eliminated.Richardson began doing stand-up in November 2009 aged 18. He was a finalist of the show So You Think You're Funny and was named the Chortle Student Comedy Award in 2010. The first show he performed as a solo act, Hometown Hero, won the award for Best New Show at the 2012 Leicester Comedy Festival and was performed on a 54-date national tour that ran from September 2013 until June 2014. His second show, Slash, debuted at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2017 before embarking on an UK Tour in Autumn 2017. Following a show at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival he went to the road with his show Impostor, in early 2020