Judi Love

Judi Love (born Judy Veronica Thomas; 4 June 1980) is an English stand-up comedian and presenter. She is a regular panellist on the ITV talk show Loose Women. In 2020, Love appeared on the first all-black panel in the show's 25-year history, alongside Charlene White, Brenda Edwards, and Kelle Bryan, a panel that has appeared many times since then.

Love was born in Hackney, London, where she now lives, to Jamaican parents and is the youngest of five children. She spent the majority of her youth in and around the East London area. Love studied a degree in Community Arts and Social Science and a Masters in Social Work from the Tavistock Institute. She began comedy when she performed a set in front of her class for a module, in which she revealed the comedic side of caring for her mother, who died in 2009 from dementia. In 2011, she made her professional stage debut with a show titled Laughter Is Healing.

Love hosted the 2019 London Critics' Circle Awards and began appearing on Loose Women in 2020. She competed on Celebrity MasterChef in 2020, finishing in third place; the nineteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2021, finishing in tenth place; and the thirteenth series of Taskmaster, finishing in last place. She occasionally deputises for regular DJs on BBC Radio 2. In March 2025, she starred in the first series of LOL: Last One Laughing UK, hosted by Jimmy Carr and Roisin Conaty, alongside Richard Ayoade, Sara Pascoe, Lou Sanders, Rob Beckett, Bob Mortimer, Joe Wilkinson, Joe Lycett, Daisy May Cooper and Harriet Kemsley.