Comedian Lucy Beaumont has admitted she "sometimes feels guilty" following her split with Jon Richardson as she opened up on her health disorder. In April, the 41-year-old announced in a joint statement on Instagram that the comedy couple would be divorcing after nine years of marriage. The couple have starred in Meet The Richardsons, in which they play “exaggerated versions of themselves”, since 2020.
Lucy, who won the BBC New Comedy award in 2012 and the Chortle award for best newcomer the following year, first met Jon at a comedy club at the Fighting Cocks pub in Kingston upon Thames in 2013. After marrying in 2015, they quickly started doing interviews together, comedy shows, charity gigs, and last year hosted their own Channel 4 game show, Jon & Lucy's Odd Couples. However it was the fly-on-the-wall mockumentary Meet The Richardsons that brought Lucy new levels of fame.
In 2023 she was nominated for a Bafta TV award for her role and the show was named best comedy at the Broadcast Digital awards in 2022. Speaking to The Sunday Times, Lucy said that she "can't talk" about the ongoing divorce owing to lawyers' instructions but did admit feeling "guilty" about one aspect of their relationship. She said: "I don't regret anything.
But equally, [over] this next stage I am very much keeping my personal life personal. 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 gett.