Claire Sweeney

Sweeney's stage career includes playing Roxie Hart in the London revival of Chicago in 2001, as well as starring in touring productions of Guys and Dolls (2006), Tell Me on a Sunday (2011), Legally Blonde (2011), and Educating Rita (2012). In 2006, she toured the UK alongside Patrick Swayze in Guys and Dolls. Her debut album, Claire, peaked at number 15 on the UK Albums Chart in 2002. She has also presented the ITV daytime show 60 Minute Makeover from 2004 to 2006 and was a regular panellist on Loose Women between 2003 and 2005.

Sweeney has been a contestant on several reality TV shows: she was a housemate on the first series of Celebrity Big Brother in 2001, competed on the first series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2004, and appeared on the sixteenth series of Dancing on Ice in 2024. On television, she has also appeared in Candy Cabs (2011), Scarborough (2019), and The Good Ship Murder (2023–2024). In 2008, she made the ITV documentary Claire Sweeney's Big Fat Diet, in which she intentionally gained 2 stone (13 kg) in six weeks for a medical experiment.

Sweeney has also been involved in charity work, supporting Claire House Children's Hospice and serving as a patron for Queenie's Christmas Charity and the Children's Liver Disease Foundation. She has a son from her relationship with Daniel Reilly and had a publicised friendship with boxer Ricky Hatton in 2024, which reportedly ended in the first half of 2025.

At 55 years old, Sweeney stands 5'8" with blonde hair and blue eyes. She has an average build and enhanced breasts. Her measurements are 36–27–37 (B–W–H) and she wears a 34C bra cup. Sweeney continues to work in television and theatre, most recently on Coronation Street.