Catherine Tyldesley
Wellbeing programmes inside organisations now compete for attention with the rest of the corporate calendar, and the credible voices in the room are often the ones audiences already trust from outside work. Senior teams running culture, engagement and family-policy events need speakers who can hold a room of non-specialists, not lecture them. The room responds to lived experience and recognisable warmth, not to another slide on resilience.
Catherine Tyldesley is a British actress, presenter and wellness advocate who hosts corporate events and speaks on health, body image, and balancing career with family.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Catherine Tyldesley
- A familiar face from prime-time British television, with seven years as Eva Price in Coronation Street and a Strictly Come Dancing run that gives her instant recognition with mass-market audiences.
- Comfortable carrying a live audience, drawn from arena work on the Strictly Come Dancing Tour, presenting on Lorraine, and winning All Star Musicals at Christmas in 2021.
- A documented personal weight loss and wellness journey, including a 12-week Ultimate Performance transformation, that gives her credible first-person material on body image, food and physical health.
- Speaks openly about the tension between career, motherhood and self-care, which lands directly with employee audiences for International Women’s Day, family policy and wellbeing programming.
- Booked equally for hosting, awards and moderation work, where the value is poise on stage and rapport with a room rather than subject-matter expertise.
Biography highlights
- Played Eva Price in ITV’s Coronation Street from 2011 to 2018, with a return to the role confirmed for 2025.
- First leading role as Iris Moss in the BBC One period drama Lilies (2007), written by Heidi Thomas.
- Lead role as Karen Norris in the BBC One sitcom Scarborough (2019), created by Derren Litten.
- Cast member of Strictly Come Dancing series 17 (2019), followed by the arena tour.
- Other television work includes 15 Days (Channel 5), Viewpoint (ITV), McDonald and Dodds (ITV), A Good Ship Murder (Channel 5) and Cooking with the Stars (ITV1).
- Winner of All Star Musicals at Christmas (ITV1, 2021), and released her debut studio album, Rise, in 2016.
Biography
Coronation Street ran in 24 million homes a week at its peak in the years Catherine Tyldesley was playing Eva Price. She held the role from 2011 to 2018, returning in 2025 as the new landlady of the Rovers Return. That long run on prime-time ITV is what gives her the audience recognition that corporate event teams hire her for.
Her acting work sits across several formats. Lilies, the 2007 BBC One period drama written by Heidi Thomas, gave her a first leading role as Iris Moss. She went on to play Karen Norris in the BBC One sitcom Scarborough, and has taken roles in 15 Days on Channel 5, Viewpoint and McDonald and Dodds on ITV, and the Channel 5 thriller A Good Ship Murder. Strictly Come Dancing series 17 and the subsequent arena tour added a live-performance dimension to her public profile.
Outside drama, she works as a presenter, host and panellist across cooking, lifestyle and entertainment formats. She won All Star Musicals at Christmas in 2021, presents food segments on Lorraine, and has appeared on Cooking with the Stars and a range of ITV game and panel shows. Brand partnerships across Tesco, Matalan, Vodafone, Fairy, Symprove and others sit alongside the on-screen work.
Her wellness platform comes from her own story. She has spoken openly about weighing close to 15 stone as a teenager and changing her relationship with food, exercise and body image over many years, including a 12-week transformation with Ultimate Performance in 2019. That material, alongside her experience of motherhood, IBS, and the practical demands of working in television, is what she draws on when she speaks at corporate events on wellbeing, balance and confidence.
Key speaking topics
- Health and wellbeing
- Body image and confidence
- Balancing career and family
- Mental health and personal resilience
- Women in the public eye
- Event hosting and moderating
Ideal for
- Internal employee events for International Women’s Day, family policy and wellbeing weeks
- Awards ceremonies, gala dinners and conference hosting where audience recognition matters
- Health, lifestyle and consumer brand events looking for a recognisable presenter
- Customer-facing experiences where warmth and on-stage poise carry the room
Audience outcomes
- A relatable, first-person account of long-term weight management, body image and changing relationship with food.
- Honest reflection on the pressures of working in television while raising young children.
- Reassurance for employee audiences that wellbeing struggles sit alongside successful careers.
- A confident host or moderator presence that holds a room of non-specialist guests.