Jon Richardson agrees mega payout to ex spouse Lucy Beaumont

Comedian Jon Richardson has agreed a mega payout to ex wife Lucy Beaumont after they split.

Jon handed over £1.625 million to Lucy when they called time on their nine year marriage in April.

The pair starred together in the mockumetary-style show Meet the Richardsons for seven years, and amassed a £6 million fortune.

But documents for a company they had run together reveal that in June, two months after their split, Jon, 41, paid Lucy, 40, £1.625 million for her shares in a company they had co run.

Jon even had to pay HMRC stamp duty of £8,125 after buying out her stake in the business This Guy at Night Limited.

According to recently filed accounts the company was worth £4 million last year and the couple are still listed as joint owners of a £1 million detached home with a pool in Yorkshire and a £1 million flat in a swanky part of North London.

The pair, who share one daughter together, tied the knot in April 2015 and announced their split in April this year – just days after the launch of the fifth series of their comedy show Meet The Richardsons.

The started dating in 2013 after they met each other through friend Roisin Conaty and went on to work together on a number of shows including Meet The Richardsons.

But four months ago in a joint statement the couple said: ‘After 9 years of marriage, we would like to announce that we have separated. We have jointly and amicably made the difficult decision to divorce and go our separate ways.

In an interview last year Lucy hinted that Meet the Richardsons would be ending.

She said: ‘This will probably be the last one, and we’re going out on a high.’

Last year, Lucy confessed that viewers often do not understand that their fighting is not real, saying: ‘It’s been great but I see comments on social media and people don’t seem to realise it’s not real…

‘I don’t henpeck – we wouldn’t have lasted this long if I was as mean to him in real life. You don’t want to see a smug couple in love, in a nice house, with a stable career and a lovely little child. Who wants to see that?…

‘I wasn’t doing it if we were going to be like that. We’ll show the other side where we’re just at each other constantly. It’s a more truthful portrayal…

‘The world we’ve got around us is slightly bizarre but I think people still feel like they recognise themselves in it, which is good.’

Jon meanwhile has landed a big role after the shock split, joining the Absolute Radio team in September.

He is on air every Saturday morning at 8am and will be broadcast from the show’s London studios or from his custom-built studio, which is located in his savvy garden pub.

Jon is best known as a team captain on Channel 4’s popular show 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

He also co-hosts Down the Dog with Matt Forde, who is an Absolute Radio presenter with a Saturday afternoon show.

Last year, Lucy revealed her career was held back by predatory men on the circuit as she confirmed she had been targeted herself.

She said she had suffered ‘quite a few incidences’ early on as she set out in the industry.

And confirming the ‘blacklist’ of alleged offenders, she said there were up to 15 men carrying out the appalling behaviour.

Lucy, said when being asked if anything had held her back: ‘Predatory male behaviour.

‘I’ve had quite a few incidences where if you’re in any other workforce you would go to HR, but there isn’t one. I think it’s just everywhere and it’s not talked about enough.

‘It upsets me when I hear about young female comics having the same experiences. I thought for a while it was the same five or six people – and now it’s not – I could name you 10 or 15 because of course people talk.’

The writer and performer spoke in July about the issue on The Comedian’s Comedian Podcast.

She added: ‘Comedy has the biggest gossips ever so everybody knows – or if you don’t know the ones I know yet then you will do soon.

‘It attracts such interesting, passionate, raw, edgy, wounded people – but it also attracts predatory men who are really messed up and sexually have been repressed for years. And they get a bit of fame and display these behaviours.

‘It just gets covered up. Their agents know and the channels know and nobody seems to be doing anything about it. 

‘There’s been times when I’ve just wanted to go on Twitter and just let people know everyone that we talk about, but not allowed to say.’