ONE Campaign had been collecting signatures for; the letter was addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to focus on women as they serve as the head of the G7 in Germany and the African Union in South Africa respectively, which will start to set the priorities in development funding before a main UN summit in September 2015 that will establish new development goals for the generation. In 2021 she became President of the Somerset branch of CPRE, the Countryside Charity. In 2022 she founded Menopause Mandate with Davina McCall, Penny Lancaster and others, to campaign for greater awareness of the impact of the menopause. Personal life Frostrup was first married (1979–1984) to Richard Jobson, lead singer with the punk rock group Skids. On a charity trek in Nepal, aged 39, Frostrup met human rights lawyer Jason McCue. They were married two years later. They live near Bruton, Somerset (with a flat in London), and have two children. She is a close friend of Penny Smith (a television presenter) and of Gina Bellman, an actress who was one of the stars of Coupling, in which she had a cameo role alongside Angus Deayton. References Bibliography Frostrup, Mariella – Dear Mariella: an Indispensable Guide to Twenty-First Century Living – Bloomsbury, 2004 Frostrup, Mariella – Cracking the Menopause: While Keeping Yourself Together'' – Bluebird, 2021 External links Journalisted – Articles by Mariella Frostrup The Book Show on Sky Arts website The Truth About The Menopause on BBC TV website The GREAT Initiative 1962 births English people of Scottish descent Norwegian emigrants to Ireland Norwegian emigrants to the United Kingdom Living people People from County Wicklow British journalists BBC television presenters Women television journalists BBC radio presenters British women radio presenters British newspaper journalists British women columnists British radio personalities Television personalities from London British mass media people