Noel Edmonds’ wife, Liz Davies, is 55 years old. Born around 1969 or 1970, she is 21 years younger than Noel, who turned 77 in December 2025. Heart confirmed her age as 55 in June 2025, when Liz stepped back into public view in ITV’s three-part documentary Noel Edmonds’ Kiwi Adventure โ her most prominent appearance on British television in years.
No credible outlet has ever published her exact date of birth. Any site claiming an exact birthdate is not sourced from anywhere legitimate.
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Liz Davies: Quick Facts
| Full Name | Elizabeth (Liz) Davies |
| Age | 55 (confirmed, June 2025) |
| Birth Year | Approx. 1969 or 1970 |
| Age Gap with Noel | 21 years younger |
| Profession | Former makeup artist |
| Married Noel | 23 July 2009 |
| Previous Husband | Nathan Ridler (cameraman) |
| Children | Two sons, including Harrison |
| Current Home | Ngฤtฤซmoti, South Island, New Zealand |
Who Is Liz Davies?
Before she ever appeared on a Channel 4 game show or in a celebrity magazine, Liz Davies had been working as a makeup artist in the British film and television industry for over 15 years. Her IMDB page carries credits on Old Scores (1991), Bhaji on the Beach (1993) โ Gurinder Chadha’s well-regarded British film โ and U.F.O. (1993).
She has two sons from her previous marriage to Nathan Ridler, a cameraman. Her son Harrison has been named in media coverage and splits his time between the United Kingdom and New Zealand. Her second son’s name has never been published in any credible source.
How Noel Edmonds and Liz Davies Met
In 2006, Liz was hired to work as a makeup artist on Channel 4’s Deal or No Deal, where Noel was the host. Their first meeting happened in the dressing room before a recording.
Noel told HELLO! magazine about that moment:
“Something strange happened and here we are. To start with it was all very professional but there was a look in both our eyes. If you speak to Liz she will say she didn’t sleep for three nights and I couldn’t stop thinking about her.”
They know the exact time of that first meeting. The clocks in their home are set to 11:06am in its honour, a detail that has stayed with them for nearly 20 years.
At the time, Liz was still married to Nathan Ridler. She and Noel did not begin a relationship immediately. They separated from their respective situations and dated for roughly two and a half years before Noel proposed.
The Proposal and the Wedding
The proposal happened in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Noel took Liz there for a short break, got down on one knee outside Catherine Palace in the snow at minus six degrees, and asked her to marry him. She said yes.
He recalled on ITV in 2025: “We were never going to get married and then I took her to Russia actually, for a little break, and when I went down on bended knee in minus six in St Petersburg in the snow, at Catherine Palace, luckily she said, ‘Yes Noel I will’.”
They married on 23 July 2009 in a civil ceremony held at a 17th-century manor house in Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire. The wedding was covered exclusively by HELLO! magazine. A few details from that day:
- Liz’s dress: Oyster satin with a crystal-encrusted bodice, designed by her close friend Dio
- The night before: Noel wore a white embroidered bishop’s gown at the stag and hen party; all female guests dressed as brides
- Guest count: Just 40 people, including Liz’s two sons and some of Noel’s four daughters
- At the reception: Noel played a camera phone recording of his actual St Petersburg proposal. According to a guest who spoke to HELLO!, nobody in the room had a dry eye
- Honeymoon: A villa in the South of France
Noel told the guests that day: “I’ve finally found my soulmate. I’ve read about it in books and seen it in films and now it’s happened.”
Four Ceremonies Down, a Fifth Being Planned
The 2009 Cotswolds wedding was only the first of several.
In the series finale of Noel Edmonds’ Kiwi Adventure, which aired on ITV1 on 11 July 2025, Noel revealed that he and Liz have already been married four times and are now planning a fifth ceremony.
He explained on camera: “We got married in a civil ceremony in the Cotswolds then we went to our home in France and an Anglican minister who I knew very well came over, and he was going to bless us and he did the whole thing again.” Two further ceremonies followed after that. One of them Noel admitted he cannot fully remember.
For the fifth, he wants to use the old chapel sitting on their New Zealand estate, which he told viewers is currently “a fly and wasp cemetery.” He plans to restore it, then walk Liz down the aisle there.
The proposal for that fifth ceremony was caught on camera. Sitting in an outdoor hot tub on their property, Noel asked Liz: “We have never been married in New Zealand, our home. I propose that we restore the chapel at the farm and on our wedding anniversary I want to walk you down the aisle of our own chapel and have the wonderful Russell, the local minister, marry us. Again. Deal or No Deal?”
He then dropped to one knee in the water, his words briefly disappearing beneath the surface.
Liz laughed: “How could I refuse?”
She told the cameras afterwards: “He’s a big romantic, which I am pleased about.”
Life in New Zealand: River Haven
Noel and Liz first visited New Zealand in 2016 and formally emigrated between 2018 and 2019, after Deal or No Deal wrapped up following more than 3,000 episodes. Noel has said the UK “changed so much, so fast, so fundamentally” that he was ready for somewhere quieter. Liz, speaking on camera during the ITV series, said: “It was meant to be. Undoubtedly it was meant to be.”
According to The Guardian, cited by Heart, the couple purchased ยฃ14.5 million worth of property in Ngฤtฤซmoti, a rural town in the Tasman region of New Zealand’s South Island. Their estate, called River Haven, covers 800 acres and includes:
- A vineyard
- A pub called The Bugger Inn
- A restaurant and coffee cart
- A wellness centre and general store
- An energy garden
- The chapel earmarked for ceremony number five
It has not been easy. Nelson-Tasman flooding in June 2025 hit River Haven hard. Noel wrote publicly: “Liz and I are in a state of shock and at this point we’re not quite sure of the way forward.” The estate also attracted controversy locally after reports that around 17 workers were let go with less than 24 hours’ notice. Noel rejected the claims, calling them “lies, lies and more lies.”
The three-part ITV series filmed across 2024 documented all of it. It aired in the UK in June and July 2025 and later on TVNZ1 in New Zealand in November 2025.
Liz Davies turns up in very few of the headlines that have followed Noel Edmonds across his career. At 55, she is managing an 800-acre estate on the other side of the world, running a pub, a vineyard, and a restaurant, while a chapel on her own land gets restored for a fifth wedding. That first dressing room meeting at 11:06am has taken them quite some distance from the Deal or No Deal set.
