Anna Ryder Richardson
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Anna Caroline Ryder Richardson (born 29 January 1964, in Swansea, Wales) is a British interior designer and television presenter. She is best known for being a designer on the BBC shows Changing Rooms and House Invaders.
[edit] Other TV appearances
- Apart from Changing Rooms, Richardson has also appeared in other home-design shows for the BBC.
- In summer 2006, she was a celebrity showjumper in the BBC's Sport Relief event Only Fools on Horses.
- She was a hidden celebrity on the CBBC show Hider in the House.
- She was the 6th person to leave the jungle in ITV's 2007 I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!.
- She appeared alongside fellow I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! contestant and eventual winner, Christopher Biggins, on a Celebrity Version of the ITV show Who wants to be a Millionaire?, which aired on 1st January 2008, in which Anna and Christopher shared a £50,000 prize for their chosen charities.
- She appeared as a guest on the Channel Four game show 8 out of 10 Cats.
[edit] Personal life
Richardson lives in Glasgow, Scotland with her husband, Glasgow restaurateur Colin MacDougall and two children, Bibi Belle and Dixie Dot.
Her father was a Malaysian student but she was adopted by Colin and Jill Ryder Richardson.
She has recently stated she wants to adopt a Chinese baby and that people should do this rather than get pets.
She is sometimes mistakenly linked with a lawsuit involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. The presenter involved was in fact Anna Richardson of movie review show Big Screen.

