Naked Attraction host Anna Richardson has revealed which gender she finds easier to date as she reflected on dating both men and women.
Anna split from former Bake Off host Sue Perkins, 53, in June 2021 after eight years together, with a source stating at the time that they were both ‘devastated’.
She has been dating charity boss Simon Perkins since October 2022 after they met through mutual friends – whom she says brought ‘a huge injection of energy’ to her love life.
Reflecting on her time dating both men and women, Anna explained to The Sun that being with a man is ‘less complicated and less emotional’.
She explained that being with a man is a ‘cliché’ as she quipped that ‘as long as you feed them and let them watch footie’ then they are happy.
Anna told the publication: ‘Dating a guy is, in some ways, less complicated’.
Naked Attraction host Anna Richardson has revealed the gender she finds easier to date as she reflected on dating both men and women (pictured with current boyfriend Simon Perkins )
Anna split from the former Bake Off host Sue Perkins, 53, (pictured) in June 2021 after eight years together, with a source stating at the time that they were both ‘devastated’
‘Dating a woman means you understand each other implicitly because you’re both female.
‘Both parties understand that they’re emotional creatures. This can be very challenging and intense, but also very exciting.’
Anna was previously with partner Charles Martin for 18 years prior to beginning a relationship with Sue in in 2013 after meeting at a Halloween party.
At the time of her break-up with Sue, a source told The Sun: ‘It’s really sad. Both Anna and Sue are devastated.
‘We’re all hoping they can patch things up and sort out their differences but for now it appears to be all over.’
Meanwhile, in May 2022, the TV star admitted that ‘you never get used to heartbreak’ following their split in a revealing interview.
The presenter spoke to OK magazine about love as well as her fears of growing older, admitting she’s ‘filled with dread’ at the prospect of what could happen in the future.
She explained: ‘I suppose I don’t know whether you become more resilient as you get older, but heartbreak is still that mystery that needs to be solved, and how you get over it and become stronger’.
Anna revealed: ‘Dating a guy is, in some ways, less complicated. Dating a woman means you understand each other implicitly because you’re both female’ (pictured with Sue in 2013)
The couple, who dated for eight years, allegedly parted ways after Sue’s reluctance to start a family, with Anna previously revealing she had thought about adopting a child and felt that ‘time is running out’ for her to do so.
Anna went on to reveal, ‘it’s a really fundamental and visceral realisation [if you haven’t had children] that, ‘Oh my God, I can’t do that anymore.’ Even if I wanted to.’
She added that she feels ‘slow, inexorable dread’ when she thinks about the next 30 years of her life, saying: ‘It seems to be a bit of a decline. And it’s very, very difficult.’
MailOnline exclusively revealed in June 2022 that nobody else was involved in Sue and Anna’s decision to split, which the couple made with ‘a heavy heart’.
A source said: ‘The split is as amicable as these things can ever be. After so long together it wasn’t an easy decision to make and they both did so with heavy hearts.
‘But Sue and Anna are determined to remain friends and keep in touch. Nobody else is involved and now the pair are throwing themselves into work.’
It was reported Anna moved out of their shared £2million North London home to live in Staffordshire to be close to her mum, who is caring for her father who is suffering from dementia.
Speaking to The Telegraph in 2015 about the start of her romance with Sue, Anna explained she had known Sue for years, but it was a meeting her at a party after her separation from Charles, that made her realise she felt something more than just friendship.
Anna said of her sexuality: ‘For me, it’s just a case of I am who I am. I’m not interested in being labelled gay or straight, my sexuality is fluid’ (pictured on Naked Attraction)
She gushed: ‘When I was invited to the party, I was told Sue would be going and I felt, what, a frisson? A spark of interest? And I thought: ‘Hmm, that’s interesting’. There was something in the air.
‘It was an extraordinary night. I was dancing on the table. It felt like a defining moment in my life.’
She wasn’t keen on giving herself a label in regards her sexuality at the time, after she had previously spent almost two decades with a man.
‘For me, it’s just a case of I am who I am. I’m not interested in being labelled gay or straight, my sexuality is fluid. I just happen to have fallen in love with a woman – simple as that,’ she explained.
