Liz was born and raised in Oxford, and attended the European School. She lived in both Germany and France for a short time as a child, picking up fluent French and German, as well as basic Czech, Italian and Spanish.
As a lover of languages, it was of course quite natural that she went to Cambridge to take a science degree...

Liz’s TV career started immediately after graduating, when she decided to single-handedly make short science documentaries. Self-taught, she researched, presented and edited these 15-minute films, which were screened locally.

Liz was soon snapped up by the local television channel where she was the News Producer, researching, presenting and editing a daily 4-minute news bulletin. Her bubbly, quick-fire personality was clearly itching to get out, and she was soon employed as the main presenter of a daily, live, 3-hour magazine show. From guest interviews to live science demonstrations, vox pops to newspaper reviews, all material was filmed, edited and produced by the presenting team, and Liz was hooked, both off-screen and on.

She soon moved to the BBC where she presented first Friday Live and Kicking, followed by the Holiday Programme, both for BBC 1 and then The Virtual Body for Channel 4 and many educational programmes for Granada and Channel 4 schools.

While taking time away from TV to look after her two young daughters Liz set up a film production company, wrote, co-directed and screened her first feature film.

After her third child was born Liz filled her abundant amounts of free time (??!) writing an honest, funny column in a local magazine about the struggles of motherhood...and soon realised there was a book in it.

Her first book, The Yummy Mummy's Survival Guide was published in 2006 by HarperCollins and was an instant best-seller. It is now published internationally. Two more parenting books -  both also in the best-seller charts - followed, as well as much journalism for British national papers and magazines, and columns on several internet sites.

As a result, television came calling again and Liz has since done hundreds of TV and radio interviews as a parenting expert on BBC Breakfast, GMTV (now Daybreak), BBC 5Live, The Wright Stuff, and many more. She has written and presented three parenting series for ITV1's Daybreak. Liz writes regularly about parenting and women's issues for the Daily Mail, FeMail, Grazia, SHE magazine and many other magazines, internet sites and newspapers.

She is now writing her fourth book.
On TV Liz is now Daybreak's main parenting expert and is also working on a factual entertainment TV series about the sexes, and a factual series about parenting.

She is still a very keen runner, competing regularly (and embarrassingly competitively!) in 10km and 5km charity races.

Liz has spoken out publicly about her past battles with eating disorders and depression, in a bid to help others who are suffering what she has overcome. Liz does voluntary work for the NSPCC and for Clic Sargeant, the charity for children with leukaemia. She is passionate about giving all children the very best chance to enjoy their childhood and develop into strong, capable, thoughtful, happy adults, and hopes to continue her work to make this happen for as long as she can.