She has appeared in or hosted several TV series including Light Lunch, Late Lunch, Win, Lose or Draw Late, Back in the Day, What the Dickens?, The Supersizers Eat…, The Review Show, Mel & Sue, Insert Name Here, QI, and The Great British Bake Off. In 2012 she was nominated for a British Comedy Award for Best Female Television Comic. Perkins one of the most high profile lesbians in London and has been dating presenter Anna Richardson since 2014.