Lou Sanders

Lou Sanders is an English stand-up comedian, writer and actress. As a stand-up comedian she has performed around the world and her show Shame Pig was the joint winner of the Comedians’ Choice Award for Best Show at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She has appeared in many television panel shows including QI, Would I Lie to You? and 8 Out of 10 Cats, and has written for many of them too. Sanders was the winner of the eighth series of Taskmaster in 2019 and competed in Dancing on Ice in 2024. In 2023, she published her autobiography, What’s That Lady Doing?.

Why Lou Sanders is vegan

Lou Sanders is vegan for the animals… and for the attention.

Lou has been vegan for many years now and often mentions it in a tongue-in-cheek fashion but doesn’t seem to like to discuss it in detail. She jokingly told BBC Radio 6 that she usually introduces herself by saying: “Hi, I’m Lou Sanders and I’m a vegan,”¹Keaveny, S. 2026. Hi, I’m Lou Sanders and I’m a Vegan. BBC Sounds. Available: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06g5gpg [Accessed 1 July 2026] and said on Instagram that she’s “just vegan for the attention!”²Sanders, L. 2018. ’m just vegan for the attention!!! Instagram. Available: https://www.instagram.com/louliesanders/p/Bli05BwgN6C/ [Accessed 1 July 2026]. She has also spoken out in support of plant-based meat alternatives.³VFC. 2021. To all the Malcolms out there, we’ve got a message for you from the cluckin’ legendary @louliesander. Instafgram. Available: https://www.instagram.com/vfc.food/p/CNIadhkJns0/ [Accessed 1 July 2026].

She told The Guardian that one of her favourite meals is a Sunday roast: “I love a roast. A friend invited a few of us round for Sunday lunch the other week. I got there, and she’d just made a normal meal. Lunch-on-a-Sunday is not Sunday lunch. I was livid. Feed me vegan Yorkshire puddings and I’ll squeal in delight like a piggy.”⁴Segalov, M. 2024. Sunday with Lou Sanders: ‘A fireside pub table for games – Bananagrams, Scrabble’. The Guardian. Available: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/may/05/sunday-with-lou-sanders-a-fireside-pub-table-for-games-bananagrams-scrabble [Accessed 1 July 2026].

At her stand-up show No Kissing in the Bingo Hall in 2025, she said: “I’m a vegan… I was at dinner with my five-year-old niece so thought I’d tell her the truth about where meat comes from. You know, just inform her. So I told her that the meat she’d ordered came from a pig who was, you know, kept in bad ways and slaughtered screaming… Her reaction really surprised me ’cause she’s really bright. She threw her head back and laughed like a psychopath.”