Born in County Meath, Ireland, in 1983, Angela Scanlon is a broadcaster and writer. After a stint as a personal shopper in Dublin, she started presenting on RTÉ and wrote for women’s magazines, before hosting programmes such as Robot Wars and The One Show, competing on Strictly and publishing memoir and self-help book Joyrider. She lives in London with her two daughters and her husband, the Irish tech entrepreneur Roy Horgan. Scanlon hosts Virgin Radio UK on Saturdays and Sundays.
I look absolutely knackered. A sugar crash. It was my first holy communion and a big old day, not least because at communion you get to go around with your little paw out asking everyone for money. The lead-up to it was all about the dress, which is quite the thing to say, considering it should have been about God.
