Sandi Toksvig
Toksvig took over from Stephen Fry as host of the BBC television quiz show QI in 2016 (series 'N'), having been a guest a number of times and spent ten years hosting The News Quiz on BBC Radio 4. From 2017 to 2020, she was co-presenter of The Great British Bake Off, alongside comedian Noel Fielding. In 2020, she stepped down and was replaced by Matt Lucas.
Toksvig was the president of the Women of the Year Lunch from 2015 to 2017.
Biography from the Wikipedia article Sandi Toksvig. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. Full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Can I Improve My Memory?
Extraordinary Escapes with Sandi Toksvig
QI
QI XL
The Great Big Tiny Design Challenge with Sandi Toksvig
The Great British Bake Off
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C
The Write Offs
Sandi's Wood
1001 Things You Should Know
Business Boomers
Call My Bluff
Fifteen to One
What the Dickens?
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