Married with two children, lives in Gloucestershire. Lesley ran her own recruitment business for 20 years. She has worked as a Cambridge don, set up a marriage agency and has tried her hand at stand-up comedy.
Defining quote: "I do have terrible temper tantrums. If I don't like something and I don't want to do it, the bottom lip starts wobbling".
A member of the Women's Institute, Lesley has been married twice, first at 16, and her second husband is 23 years her senior.