Read about London Hughes net worth, age, partner, husband, children, height, family, parents, salary, and tv shows as well as other information you need to know.
Introduction
London Hughes is a British comedian, television writer and presenter. She wrote and starred in Laughter Shock, a comedy for the BBC which piloted in 2010. Hughes is scheduled to star in an upcoming Perfect Strangers reboot for HBO Max alongside Robin Thede.
Early life
Name | London Hughes |
Net Worth | $5 million |
Occupation | Comedian, Television writer, Presenter |
Age | 33 years |
Height | 1.68m |
London Hughes whose real name is London Dionne Micha Stacey Stephanie Estina Knibbs-Hughes was born on June 7, 1989 (age 33 years) in Thornton Heath, United Kingdom. Her mother is of Jamaican and Cuban ancestry, while her father is of Puerto Rican, Spanish and Nigerian ancestry.
Hughes’s great-grandfather was Enos Knibbs. When she was younger, she spent most of her spare time working on new routines with a dance crew. Her family moved to Brighton when she was aged 14.
Career
London Hughes started her television career presenting daytime shows on adult TV station Babestation, before moving on to presenting the morning show for CBBC for almost two years. In that time she also presented live links on BBC1 and BBC2.
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Hughes made regular appearances on Blue Peter and had a presenter role in the children’s show All over the Place alongside Ed Petrie as well as voicing characters for CBBC’s comedy, Big Babies. As a comedian, she initially used the stage name “Miss London”, changing it to “Miss London Hughes” and eventually to “London Hughes” to avoid confusion with the regional beauty pageant Miss London.
She won the 2009 Funny Women Award at the Comedy Store (London), against competition from Eve Webster and Jo Selby. She has appeared on children’s television such as Series 1-5 of CITV’s weekend breakfast show, Scrambled! Pre-recorded, Scrambled! is a mixture of chat, games and comedy sketches with the presenters interlinking between shows in the CITV schedule.
London Hughes departed the show in 2018, and the series proper came to an end in 2021, after 7 years. London Hughes had her first feature film role in the comedy It’s A Lot, written and directed by Femi Oyeniran, released nationwide in 2013. London improvised a lot of the comedy material for her scenes and choreographed the numerous dance routines used throughout the film.
ins>Hughes made her BBC Radio 4 debut in August 2013 by writing and starring in her own sitcom pilot named 28 Dates Later. Loosely based on her life, the sitcom was about two girls that work in a cinema with a love of romantic comedies, but can’t seem to make their own love lives match up to the ones in the movies. She has also been featured in the comedy entertainment show Life: An Idiot’s Guide and the satirical sketch show Newsjack, both for BBC Radio 4.
In 2016, she appeared as a sex shop worker in an episode of the first season of Fleabag. Hughes launched her own YouTube comedy series No Filter in 2016, written by and starring herself based on her real-life experiences in friendship and dating.
London Hughes has also been featured on the Drunk Women Solving Crime podcast with writer/comedian hosts Hannah George, Catie Wilkins and Taylor Glenn as well as on Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast, RHLSTP.
She was a contestant on ITV’s All-Star Musical 2019 and also appeared on The Stand Up Sketch Show on ITV2 and BBC2’s Mock the Week. In 2018, Hughes was working on developing a comedian travel show that would feature herself and Whoopi Goldberg. However, despite Goldberg having agreed to do the show, no TV channel was interested and the show did not get made.
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Hughes’ first Edinburgh Festival Fringe show was London Hughes: Superstar (it’s just nobody’s realized it), in 2017. In 2019, she performed London Hughes: To Catch a D*ck to critical acclaim, becoming the first black nominee in the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Comedy Show. The routine was adapted into a 2020 Netflix special.
Husband
London Hughes is probably not married and has no ex-husband as of March 2023. Her partner is unknown to the general media.
London Hughes net worth
How much is London Hughes worth? London Hughes net worth is estimated at around $5 million. Her main source of income is from her primary work as a comedian, television writer and presenter. London Hughes’s salary per month and other career earnings are over $400,000 dollars annually. Her remarkable achievements have earned her some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy cars trips. She is one of the richest and most influential presenters in the United Kingdom. She stands at an appealing height of 1.68m and has a good body weight which suits her personality.