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Davina McCall

Davina Lucy Pascale McCall[1] (born 16 October 1967)[2] is an English television presenter. She was the presenter of the reality show Big Brother during its run on Channel 4 between 2000 and 2010. She also hosted Channel 4's Streetmate (1998–2001, 2016), The Million Pound Drop (2010–2015), Five Minutes to a Fortune (2013), and The Jump (2014–2017), as well as ITV's The Biggest Loser (2011–2012), Long Lost Family (2011–present), and This Time Next Year (2016–2019). McCall was a regular co-presenter of the Comic Relief annual telethons from 2005 to 2015.

Davina McCall
McCall at the British Academy Television Awards in April 2009
Born
Davina Lucy Pascale McCall

(1967-10-16) 16 October 1967 (age 55)
OccupationTelevision presenter
Years active1992–present
Employers
Spouses
  • Andrew Leggett
    (m. 1997; div. 1997)
  • Matthew Robertson
    (m. 2000; sep. 2017)
Children3
RelativesCélestin Hennion (great-grandfather)
Websitethisisdavina.com

From 2010 to 2014, McCall presented the Sky One dance competition show Got to Dance. Since 2020, she has been a judge on the ITV musical competition show The Masked Singer, and since 2021, a spin-off of the show, The Masked Dancer.

Early life and education

McCall was born on 16 October 1967 in Wimbledon, London,[1][2][3] to a French mother, Florence (née Hennion) and an English father, Andrew McCall, a graphic designer[4] and events organiser for Portsmouth Harbour Authority.[5][6][7] At the age of three she went to live with her paternal grandparents in Surrey after the break-up of her parents' marriage.[8] Her mother Florence—whom McCall has described as something of a "wild child" and later, specifically as "an alcoholic"—returned to Paris, and McCall saw her only when on holidays.

McCall attended St Catherine's School, Bramley near Guildford, Surrey and Godolphin and Latymer Girls School,[9] a private school in Hammersmith, West London. At secondary level, McCall studied for nine O levels and two A levels.

Career

McCall's first career was as a singer, and she had been performing in a band, Lazy Bear, while still at school. By age 19, she had decided to pursue a professional career as a solo classical artist, and briefly commenced classical vocal coaching.[10][11]

Dissatisfied with her lack of success in the music industry, McCall gave up singing and took a job at Models 1 on the men's desk as a booker. Later she ran a restaurant for two years before a brief spell in Paris as a Moulin Rouge-style cabaret performer. On her return to London she worked on the nightclub scene as a hostess.[12] Work in this period also included an appearance as a dancer in the video for the 1991 Kylie Minogue single "Word Is Out", wearing a striped sweater and beret in a nod to her French ancestry.

In 1994, McCall was hired as a presenter on Ray Cokes' Most Wanted on MTV Europe. She then presented Hitlist UK. In 1995, she went on to host the ITV late night game show God's Gift.

Channel 4

In 1998, McCall hosted cult dating show Streetmate in which she toured the country meeting single people and matching them up.

McCall was chosen as the presenter of the inaugural series of Big Brother,[13] in which ten housemates entered a sealed house for up to nine weeks and their every move was filmed and then broadcast as a daily highlights television show. McCall hosted the weekly live eviction show, where one contestant would be removed from the house, until the last housemate became the winner. McCall also hosted the celebrity version Celebrity Big Brother, the first series of which ran for eight days in March 2001.

McCall's performance on the final night of the sixth series in 2005 attracted press attention and some complaints for her treatment of housemate Makosi Musambasi.[14][15] In December 2007, McCall presented a New Year's edition of The Friday Night Project, entitled The Friday Night New Year Project 2007.

By the ninth series of Big Brother in 2008, McCall was earning a reported £85,000 per episode.[16] Responding to tabloid claims before the series that she was about to quit Big Brother she said, "I'm not leaving ... They would have to kill me before I'd stop doing it".[17][18] The ninth series proved to be a low point, however, becoming the least watched summer series in the show's history.

McCall became the regular presenter of the live Big Brother companion show Big Brother's Big Mouth for the tenth and eleventh series, after it was re-formatted into an hour-long show after the weekly live eviction show, having previously occupied the slot after each daily highlights show.

With audience figures falling, Channel 4 decided that the eleventh series in summer 2010 would be the last Big Brother broadcast on their channel, although the show's future was in the hands of the rights holder Endemol. After presenting the seventh and final series of Celebrity Big Brother in January 2010, she fronted her eleventh and final regular edition over the summer. As a finale to the series on Channel 4, McCall also presented the Ultimate Big Brother show, which started immediately after the main series, and featured selected past celebrity and non-celebrity housemates.

Having made the decision to leave the show after Ultimate Big Brother, McCall confirmed she would not be returning as host when Channel 5 announced in April 2011 that they had secured the rights to relaunch Big Brother in summer 2011. She gave her backing to Emma Willis as her replacement, stating she still believed the show had potential.[19] Big Brother 2 and Ultimate Big Brother winner Brian Dowling was ultimately chosen to take over McCall's role as presenter of the Channel 5 version, though in 2013 Emma Willis became his successor as the new presenter.

In between the final celebrity and regular editions of Big Brother on Channel 4, McCall began presenting a new game show, The Million Pound Drop. The final episode aired on 20 March 2015, with the primetime series axed in 2016. On 14 July 2017, it was announced that the format would return as a daytime series under the name The £100K Drop.[20]

From 2012 to 2016, McCall co-hosted charity telethon Stand Up to Cancer with Alan Carr, Christian Jessen and Adam Hills. As part of the 2014 telethon, McCall and Carr also hosted a companion series Stars at Your Service.

In April 2013, McCall presented one series of Five Minutes to a Fortune.[21]

From January 2014 to March 2017, McCall presented reality competition The Jump which was broadcast live from Innsbruck and Kühtai in Austria.[22][23] In 2016, McCall presented Make My Body Better on Channel 4.

Sky

Davina co-presented the first series of Prickly Heat alongside Julian Clary on Sky1. She was replaced by Denise van Outen for further two series.

On 20 December 2009, McCall began hosting reality programme Got to Dance. On 24 October 2014, it was confirmed that the show had been axed after five series.[24] In 2015, McCall presented One Hundred and Eighty, a darts-based game show for Sky1.[25]

ITV

McCall co-presented the six part series Birthrace 2000 with Lisa Riley in 1999, which featured couples trying to have the first baby of the millennium.[26][27][28]

McCall co-presented four series of Don't Try This at Home for ITV. Her co-presenters were Kate Thornton, Paul Hendy and Darren Day.

When Don't Try This at Home ended in 2001, McCall continued with the channel, presenting series such as Popstars: The Rivals and The Vault (1st series) in 2002, Reborn in the USA in 2003 and Love on a Saturday Night in 2004. She also hosted the British Academy Television Awards 2004 for ITV and again in 2006.

In 2011, McCall began hosting The Biggest Loser and Long Lost Family. After just two series, it was announced that The Biggest Loser had been axed by ITV in September 2012. Long Lost Family, however, is still being broadcast on the channel, with McCall and Nicky Campbell as hosts.[29]

In 2013, McCall presented Stepping Out which was seen as a rival to BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing.[30][31]

In 2016, Davina presented a four-part factual series for ITV called Davina McCall: Life at the Extreme. From 2016 to 2019, she has presented three series of This Time Next Year for the channel.[32]

In January 2017, McCall guest presented three episodes of This Morning alongside Phillip Schofield. She returned to guest present an episode in February 2018 with Ore Oduba.

McCall guest presented five episodes of The Nightly Show in March 2017. In 2018, she was the host of A&E Live, a three part series to commemorate 70 years of the NHS. On 9 September 2019, McCall was announced as a judge for The Masked Singer, the UK version of the international music game show Masked Singer.[33] Series 1 aired in January 2020, and series 2 began airing in December 2020.[34] On 4 March 2021, it was announced by ITV that McCall would be appearing as a judge on the brand new spin off show of The Masked Singer UK, The Masked Dancer UK, which is set to air in spring 2021.[35]

BBC

During 2005, McCall presented He's Having a Baby, where she followed and advised eight young men who were to become first-time fathers at various stages during the show's ten-week run. It received poor ratings.[citation needed]

McCall has been one of the co-presenters of the annual British charity telethons that are organised by Comic Relief on BBC One. Organised on an alternating comedy/sport theme and televised live in March, Red Nose Day has been co-hosted by McCall since 2005. She had previously presented or appeared on various related Comic Relief shows, including: The Record Breaker (1999), Naked Red Nose Ground Force in Practice and Say Pants to Poverty (2001), The Big Hair Do (2003) and Comic Relief Does Fame Academy (2005).

From early 2006, McCall fronted her own prime-time chat show, Davina. Receiving scathing reviews and with viewing figures falling to below half of the six million watching The Bill on ITV at the same time, the show was axed in April for not reaching expectations with McCall herself saying that the programme was "the worst mistake of her life".[36]

UKTV

McCall presented her own show on the W channel from September 2017, called The Davina Hour.[37]

Other ventures

In 2001, McCall appeared with Ed Byrne, Tristan Gemmill and Tameka Empson as the title character in Sam's Game, a Friends-style sitcom. Slammed by the critics, it aired just once. McCall has voiced the android Davina McCall in the 2005 Doctor Who episode "Bad Wolf", and in 2008 she played herself as both a human and a zombie in Dead Set, a five-part horror parody of Big Brother set in the house.

In documentary television, McCall has fronted Let's Talk Sex about sex education and how it is taught in the United Kingdom (which then had one of the countries of Europe with the highest teenage pregnancy levels). She also published a companion book to the series. McCall has also appeared in a video for schools called "Watch Over Me," talking about her drug addiction and peer pressure.

McCall is also the face of cosmetics brand Garnier in the United Kingdom.

In August 2014, McCall was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue.[38]

Personal life

Family

Her first marriage was to Andrew Leggett in 1997.[39]

In June 2000 McCall married her second husband Matthew Robertson, presenter of Pet Rescue, at Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire.[40] Together they had three children: two daughters and a son. In November 2017 the couple separated.

McCall's previous partners included family friend Eric Clapton.[10][41][42] He also helped her when in her early 20s she developed a drug problem; it was only after overcoming this that she gained her own television show on MTV.[43] She gave up smoking when she was 24.[44]

McCall is fluent in French, as her mother is French.[45]

Ancestry

McCall's ancestry was examined for a 2009 episode of Who Do You Think You Are?. With the help of historians Jean-Marc Berliere and Simon Kitson, McCall learned that she is the great-granddaughter of onetime Prefect of Police Célestin Hennion (1862–1915), and the great-great-great-granddaughter, on her father's side, of James Thomas Bedborough (1787–1860), a stonemason, councillor, Mayor, property developer and entrepreneur, who worked on Windsor Castle and Upton Park in Slough. Bedborough was said to be an illegitimate son of George IV according to a story told by McCall's grandmother, but this was neither proved nor disproved on the show.

Participants in the programme included Françoise Hennion (Hennion's granddaughter and McCall's mother's cousin) and Pierre, Hennion's son and McCall's grandfather. Pierre gave McCall his father's Royal Victorian Order medal. McCall met Alfred Dreyfus's great-granddaughter, Yael Ruiz, after learning of the part her ancestor Célestin Hennion played in the Dreyfus affair.[46]

Charity work

In February 2014, McCall undertook a BT Sport Relief challenge called 'Davina – Beyond Breaking Point', seven days of either running, swimming or cycling across the UK to raise money for the UK charity Sport Relief. This challenge was filmed by the BBC as a one-off 60-minute documentary which aired on 20 March 2014 at 21:00 on BBC One.[47] During the live telethon, it was announced that McCall had raised over £2.2 million for Sport Relief 2014.[48]

Filmography

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1992 MTV Europe Presenter
1993 Eurotrash Female voice dubber for the first series on Channel 4
1995 God's Gift
1998 The Drop Dead Show
Prickly Heat 1 series; with Julian Clary
1998–2001 Don't Try This at Home! 4 series
1998–2001 Streetmate 3 series (plus 2 specials, in 2003 and 2016)
1999 Birthrace 2000[26] 6 part TV series also known as Birth Race 2000 Tonight's the Night, Birth Race 2000 Animal Passions, Birth Race 2000 A-Z of Conception and Birth Race 2000 On the Job with Lisa Riley, along with a preview episode titled Birth Race 2000 On Your Marks[27][28]
1999 A Day in the life of the Shepherds
2000, 2003 BRIT Awards 2 episodes
2000–2010 Big Brother Series 1 to Series 11
2001 Sam's Game Sam
2001–2010 Celebrity Big Brother Presenter Series 1 to Series 7
2001 Oblivious
2002 The Vault 1 series
Popstars: The Rivals 1 series
2003 Stars in Their Eyes Stand-in presenter 3 episodes; stand-in for Matthew Kelly
Reborn in the USA Presenter
2004 Love on a Saturday Night
2004, 2006 BAFTA TV Awards 2 episodes
2005–2015, 2021 Comic Relief Co-presenter
2005 Doctor Who Voice Voice of Davinadroid in the episode Bad Wolf
A Bear's Tail Dave Ian McCall
He's Having a Baby Presenter
2006 Davina 1 series
2006—2018 Sport Relief Co-presenter
2007 Let's Talk Sex Presenter
Big Brother: On The Couch
The Friday Night New Year Project Guest presenter
2008 Dead Set[49] Herself Plays fictionalised version of herself as Big Brother host (also as a zombie)
4Music's Davina & Steve's 20 Big Ones Co-presenter
2008, 2009–2010 Big Brother's Big Mouth Presenter
2010–2014 Got to Dance 5 series
2010–2015 The Million Pound Drop 15 series (inc. specials)
2010 Ultimate Big Brother
2011–2012 The Biggest Loser 2 series
2011— Long Lost Family Co-presenter 11 series (+ 6 revisited series, + 3 without trace series); with Nicky Campbell
2012–2016, 2021 Stand Up to Cancer UK 3 episodes; with Alan Carr, Christian Jessen and Adam Hills
2012 Girls Aloud: Ten Years at the Top Narrator One-off programme
2013 Five Minutes to a Fortune Presenter 1 series
Stepping Out 1 series
2014–2017 The Jump 4 series; with Alex Brooker in 2014 only
2014 Stars at Your Service Co-presenter 1 series; with Alan Carr
2015 The Secret Life of Your House Narrator One-off programme
One Hundred and Eighty Presenter 1 series; with Freddie Flintoff
2016 Davina McCall: Life at the Extreme[32] 1 series
2016–2017 Make My Body Better 1 series
2016—2019 This Time Next Year[50] 3 series
2017, 2018, 2020 This Morning Guest presenter 5 episodes
2017 The Nightly Show 5 episodes
The Davina Hour Presenter 1 series
2018–2019 The £100K Drop Daytime series of The Million Pound Drop
2018 Ariana Grande at the BBC One-off programme
2020— The Masked Singer UK Judge 3 series
2020 The Big Night In Co-presenter
Big Brother: Best Shows Ever 10 episodes; with Rylan Clark-Neal
Back to the Noughties with Davina McCall Presenter
2021 The Masked Dancer UK Judge 1 series
Davina McCall: Sex, Myths and the Menopause Presenter Documentary[51]
2022 Davina McCall's Language of Love Dating reality show[52]
Davina McCall: Sex, Mind and the Menopause Documentary[53]
Who Cares Wins Awards Host Awards ceremony[54]
Guest appearances

Fitness DVDs

  • Davina: Power of 3 (released 27 December 2004)
  • Davina – My Three 30 Minute Workouts (released 5 December 2005)
  • Davina – My Pre & Post Natal Workouts (released 5 March 2007)
  • Davina – High Energy Five (released 3 December 2007)
  • Davina – Super Body Workout (released 8 December 2008)
  • Davina Fit (released 7 December 2009)
  • Davina – Body Buff (released 6 December 2010)
  • Davina – Ultimate Target (released 5 December 2011)
  • Davina Intense (released 10 December 2012)
  • Davina – Fit in 15 (released 2 December 2013)
  • Davina: 7 Minute Fit (released 26 December 2014)
  • Davina: 5 Week Fit (released 26 December 2015)
  • Davina: 30 Day Fat Burn (released 26 December 2016)
  • Davina: Toned in 10 (released 26 December 2017)

Bibliography

  • Davina's 5 Weeks to Sugar Free (released 8 January 2015)
  • Davina's Smart Carbs (released 31 December 2015)
  • Lessons I've Learned (released 22 September 2016)
  • Davina's Sugar-Free in a Hurry (released 29 December 2016)
  • Menopausing ISBN 9780008517786 (released 15 September 2022)

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External links

  • Official website
  • Twitter
  • Davina McCall at IMDb

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Davina Lucy Pascale McCall 1 born 16 October 1967 2 is an English television presenter She was the presenter of the reality show Big Brother during its run on Channel 4 between 2000 and 2010 She also hosted Channel 4 s Streetmate 1998 2001 2016 The Million Pound Drop 2010 2015 Five Minutes to a Fortune 2013 and The Jump 2014 2017 as well as ITV s The Biggest Loser 2011 2012 Long Lost Family 2011 present and This Time Next Year 2016 2019 McCall was a regular co presenter of the Comic Relief annual telethons from 2005 to 2015 Davina McCallMcCall at the British Academy Television Awards in April 2009BornDavina Lucy Pascale McCall 1967 10 16 16 October 1967 age 55 Wimbledon London EnglandOccupationTelevision presenterYears active1992 presentEmployersITV Channel 4 UKTVSpousesAndrew Leggett m 1997 div 1997 wbr Matthew Robertson m 2000 sep 2017 wbr Children3RelativesCelestin Hennion great grandfather Websitethisisdavina wbr comFrom 2010 to 2014 McCall presented the Sky One dance competition show Got to Dance Since 2020 she has been a judge on the ITV musical competition show The Masked Singer and since 2021 a spin off of the show The Masked Dancer Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 2 1 Channel 4 2 2 Sky 2 3 ITV 2 4 BBC 2 5 UKTV 3 Other ventures 4 Personal life 4 1 Family 4 2 Ancestry 4 3 Charity work 5 Filmography 5 1 Television 5 2 Fitness DVDs 6 Bibliography 7 References 8 External linksEarly life and education EditMcCall was born on 16 October 1967 in Wimbledon London 1 2 3 to a French mother Florence nee Hennion and an English father Andrew McCall a graphic designer 4 and events organiser for Portsmouth Harbour Authority 5 6 7 At the age of three she went to live with her paternal grandparents in Surrey after the break up of her parents marriage 8 Her mother Florence whom McCall has described as something of a wild child and later specifically as an alcoholic returned to Paris and McCall saw her only when on holidays McCall attended St Catherine s School Bramley near Guildford Surrey and Godolphin and Latymer Girls School 9 a private school in Hammersmith West London At secondary level McCall studied for nine O levels and two A levels Career EditMcCall s first career was as a singer and she had been performing in a band Lazy Bear while still at school By age 19 she had decided to pursue a professional career as a solo classical artist and briefly commenced classical vocal coaching 10 11 Dissatisfied with her lack of success in the music industry McCall gave up singing and took a job at Models 1 on the men s desk as a booker Later she ran a restaurant for two years before a brief spell in Paris as a Moulin Rouge style cabaret performer On her return to London she worked on the nightclub scene as a hostess 12 Work in this period also included an appearance as a dancer in the video for the 1991 Kylie Minogue single Word Is Out wearing a striped sweater and beret in a nod to her French ancestry In 1994 McCall was hired as a presenter on Ray Cokes Most Wanted on MTV Europe She then presented Hitlist UK In 1995 she went on to host the ITV late night game show God s Gift Channel 4 Edit In 1998 McCall hosted cult dating show Streetmate in which she toured the country meeting single people and matching them up McCall was chosen as the presenter of the inaugural series of Big Brother 13 in which ten housemates entered a sealed house for up to nine weeks and their every move was filmed and then broadcast as a daily highlights television show McCall hosted the weekly live eviction show where one contestant would be removed from the house until the last housemate became the winner McCall also hosted the celebrity version Celebrity Big Brother the first series of which ran for eight days in March 2001 McCall s performance on the final night of the sixth series in 2005 attracted press attention and some complaints for her treatment of housemate Makosi Musambasi 14 15 In December 2007 McCall presented a New Year s edition of The Friday Night Project entitled The Friday Night New Year Project 2007 By the ninth series of Big Brother in 2008 McCall was earning a reported 85 000 per episode 16 Responding to tabloid claims before the series that she was about to quit Big Brother she said I m not leaving They would have to kill me before I d stop doing it 17 18 The ninth series proved to be a low point however becoming the least watched summer series in the show s history McCall became the regular presenter of the live Big Brother companion show Big Brother s Big Mouth for the tenth and eleventh series after it was re formatted into an hour long show after the weekly live eviction show having previously occupied the slot after each daily highlights show With audience figures falling Channel 4 decided that the eleventh series in summer 2010 would be the last Big Brother broadcast on their channel although the show s future was in the hands of the rights holder Endemol After presenting the seventh and final series of Celebrity Big Brother in January 2010 she fronted her eleventh and final regular edition over the summer As a finale to the series on Channel 4 McCall also presented the Ultimate Big Brother show which started immediately after the main series and featured selected past celebrity and non celebrity housemates Having made the decision to leave the show after Ultimate Big Brother McCall confirmed she would not be returning as host when Channel 5 announced in April 2011 that they had secured the rights to relaunch Big Brother in summer 2011 She gave her backing to Emma Willis as her replacement stating she still believed the show had potential 19 Big Brother 2 and Ultimate Big Brother winner Brian Dowling was ultimately chosen to take over McCall s role as presenter of the Channel 5 version though in 2013 Emma Willis became his successor as the new presenter In between the final celebrity and regular editions of Big Brother on Channel 4 McCall began presenting a new game show The Million Pound Drop The final episode aired on 20 March 2015 with the primetime series axed in 2016 On 14 July 2017 it was announced that the format would return as a daytime series under the name The 100K Drop 20 From 2012 to 2016 McCall co hosted charity telethon Stand Up to Cancer with Alan Carr Christian Jessen and Adam Hills As part of the 2014 telethon McCall and Carr also hosted a companion series Stars at Your Service In April 2013 McCall presented one series of Five Minutes to a Fortune 21 From January 2014 to March 2017 McCall presented reality competition The Jump which was broadcast live from Innsbruck and Kuhtai in Austria 22 23 In 2016 McCall presented Make My Body Better on Channel 4 Sky Edit Davina co presented the first series of Prickly Heat alongside Julian Clary on Sky1 She was replaced by Denise van Outen for further two series On 20 December 2009 McCall began hosting reality programme Got to Dance On 24 October 2014 it was confirmed that the show had been axed after five series 24 In 2015 McCall presented One Hundred and Eighty a darts based game show for Sky1 25 ITV Edit McCall co presented the six part series Birthrace 2000 with Lisa Riley in 1999 which featured couples trying to have the first baby of the millennium 26 27 28 McCall co presented four series of Don t Try This at Home for ITV Her co presenters were Kate Thornton Paul Hendy and Darren Day When Don t Try This at Home ended in 2001 McCall continued with the channel presenting series such as Popstars The Rivals and The Vault 1st series in 2002 Reborn in the USA in 2003 and Love on a Saturday Night in 2004 She also hosted the British Academy Television Awards 2004 for ITV and again in 2006 In 2011 McCall began hosting The Biggest Loser and Long Lost Family After just two series it was announced that The Biggest Loser had been axed by ITV in September 2012 Long Lost Family however is still being broadcast on the channel with McCall and Nicky Campbell as hosts 29 In 2013 McCall presented Stepping Out which was seen as a rival to BBC One s Strictly Come Dancing 30 31 In 2016 Davina presented a four part factual series for ITV called Davina McCall Life at the Extreme From 2016 to 2019 she has presented three series of This Time Next Year for the channel 32 In January 2017 McCall guest presented three episodes of This Morning alongside Phillip Schofield She returned to guest present an episode in February 2018 with Ore Oduba McCall guest presented five episodes of The Nightly Show in March 2017 In 2018 she was the host of A amp E Live a three part series to commemorate 70 years of the NHS On 9 September 2019 McCall was announced as a judge for The Masked Singer the UK version of the international music game show Masked Singer 33 Series 1 aired in January 2020 and series 2 began airing in December 2020 34 On 4 March 2021 it was announced by ITV that McCall would be appearing as a judge on the brand new spin off show of The Masked Singer UK The Masked Dancer UK which is set to air in spring 2021 35 BBC Edit During 2005 McCall presented He s Having a Baby where she followed and advised eight young men who were to become first time fathers at various stages during the show s ten week run It received poor ratings citation needed McCall has been one of the co presenters of the annual British charity telethons that are organised by Comic Relief on BBC One Organised on an alternating comedy sport theme and televised live in March Red Nose Day has been co hosted by McCall since 2005 She had previously presented or appeared on various related Comic Relief shows including The Record Breaker 1999 Naked Red Nose Ground Force in Practice and Say Pants to Poverty 2001 The Big Hair Do 2003 and Comic Relief Does Fame Academy 2005 From early 2006 McCall fronted her own prime time chat show Davina Receiving scathing reviews and with viewing figures falling to below half of the six million watching The Bill on ITV at the same time the show was axed in April for not reaching expectations with McCall herself saying that the programme was the worst mistake of her life 36 UKTV Edit McCall presented her own show on the W channel from September 2017 called The Davina Hour 37 Other ventures EditIn 2001 McCall appeared with Ed Byrne Tristan Gemmill and Tameka Empson as the title character in Sam s Game a Friends style sitcom Slammed by the critics it aired just once McCall has voiced the android Davina McCall in the 2005 Doctor Who episode Bad Wolf and in 2008 she played herself as both a human and a zombie in Dead Set a five part horror parody of Big Brother set in the house In documentary television McCall has fronted Let s Talk Sex about sex education and how it is taught in the United Kingdom which then had one of the countries of Europe with the highest teenage pregnancy levels She also published a companion book to the series McCall has also appeared in a video for schools called Watch Over Me talking about her drug addiction and peer pressure McCall is also the face of cosmetics brand Garnier in the United Kingdom In August 2014 McCall was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September s referendum on that issue 38 Personal life EditFamily Edit Her first marriage was to Andrew Leggett in 1997 39 In June 2000 McCall married her second husband Matthew Robertson presenter of Pet Rescue at Eastnor Castle Herefordshire 40 Together they had three children two daughters and a son In November 2017 the couple separated McCall s previous partners included family friend Eric Clapton 10 41 42 He also helped her when in her early 20s she developed a drug problem it was only after overcoming this that she gained her own television show on MTV 43 She gave up smoking when she was 24 44 McCall is fluent in French as her mother is French 45 Ancestry Edit McCall s ancestry was examined for a 2009 episode of Who Do You Think You Are With the help of historians Jean Marc Berliere and Simon Kitson McCall learned that she is the great granddaughter of onetime Prefect of Police Celestin Hennion 1862 1915 and the great great great granddaughter on her father s side of James Thomas Bedborough 1787 1860 a stonemason councillor Mayor property developer and entrepreneur who worked on Windsor Castle and Upton Park in Slough Bedborough was said to be an illegitimate son of George IV according to a story told by McCall s grandmother but this was neither proved nor disproved on the show Participants in the programme included Francoise Hennion Hennion s granddaughter and McCall s mother s cousin and Pierre Hennion s son and McCall s grandfather Pierre gave McCall his father s Royal Victorian Order medal McCall met Alfred Dreyfus s great granddaughter Yael Ruiz after learning of the part her ancestor Celestin Hennion played in the Dreyfus affair 46 Charity work Edit In February 2014 McCall undertook a BT Sport Relief challenge called Davina Beyond Breaking Point seven days of either running swimming or cycling across the UK to raise money for the UK charity Sport Relief This challenge was filmed by the BBC as a one off 60 minute documentary which aired on 20 March 2014 at 21 00 on BBC One 47 During the live telethon it was announced that McCall had raised over 2 2 million for Sport Relief 2014 48 Filmography EditTelevision Edit Year Title Role Notes1992 MTV Europe Presenter1993 Eurotrash Female voice dubber for the first series on Channel 41995 God s Gift1998 The Drop Dead ShowPrickly Heat 1 series with Julian Clary1998 2001 Don t Try This at Home 4 series1998 2001 Streetmate 3 series plus 2 specials in 2003 and 2016 1999 Birthrace 2000 26 6 part TV series also known as Birth Race 2000 Tonight s the Night Birth Race 2000 Animal Passions Birth Race 2000 A Z of Conception and Birth Race 2000 On the Job with Lisa Riley along with a preview episode titled Birth Race 2000 On Your Marks 27 28 1999 A Day in the life of the Shepherds2000 2003 BRIT Awards 2 episodes2000 2010 Big Brother Series 1 to Series 112001 Sam s Game Sam2001 2010 Celebrity Big Brother Presenter Series 1 to Series 72001 Oblivious2002 The Vault 1 seriesPopstars The Rivals 1 series2003 Stars in Their Eyes Stand in presenter 3 episodes stand in for Matthew KellyReborn in the USA Presenter2004 Love on a Saturday Night2004 2006 BAFTA TV Awards 2 episodes2005 2015 2021 Comic Relief Co presenter2005 Doctor Who Voice Voice of Davinadroid in the episode Bad WolfA Bear s Tail Dave Ian McCallHe s Having a Baby Presenter2006 Davina 1 series2006 2018 Sport Relief Co presenter2007 Let s Talk Sex PresenterBig Brother On The CouchThe Friday Night New Year Project Guest presenter2008 Dead Set 49 Herself Plays fictionalised version of herself as Big Brother host also as a zombie 4Music s Davina amp Steve s 20 Big Ones Co presenter2008 2009 2010 Big Brother s Big Mouth Presenter2010 2014 Got to Dance 5 series2010 2015 The Million Pound Drop 15 series inc specials 2010 Ultimate Big Brother2011 2012 The Biggest Loser 2 series2011 Long Lost Family Co presenter 11 series 6 revisited series 3 without trace series with Nicky Campbell2012 2016 2021 Stand Up to Cancer UK 3 episodes with Alan Carr Christian Jessen and Adam Hills2012 Girls Aloud Ten Years at the Top Narrator One off programme2013 Five Minutes to a Fortune Presenter 1 seriesStepping Out 1 series2014 2017 The Jump 4 series with Alex Brooker in 2014 only2014 Stars at Your Service Co presenter 1 series with Alan Carr2015 The Secret Life of Your House Narrator One off programmeOne Hundred and Eighty Presenter 1 series with Freddie Flintoff2016 Davina McCall Life at the Extreme 32 1 series2016 2017 Make My Body Better 1 series2016 2019 This Time Next Year 50 3 series2017 2018 2020 This Morning Guest presenter 5 episodes2017 The Nightly Show 5 episodesThe Davina Hour Presenter 1 series2018 2019 The 100K Drop Daytime series of The Million Pound Drop2018 Ariana Grande at the BBC One off programme2020 The Masked Singer UK Judge 3 series2020 The Big Night In Co presenterBig Brother Best Shows Ever 10 episodes with Rylan Clark NealBack to the Noughties with Davina McCall Presenter2021 The Masked Dancer UK Judge 1 seriesDavina McCall Sex Myths and the Menopause Presenter Documentary 51 2022 Davina McCall s Language of Love Dating reality show 52 Davina McCall Sex Mind and the Menopause Documentary 53 Who Cares Wins Awards Host Awards ceremony 54 Guest appearancesThe Kumars at No 42 2001 55 Top Gear 2005 Room 101 2007 2017 Question Time 2007 The Paul O Grady Show 2008 2015 Would I Lie to You 2008 2009 Chris Moyles Quiz Night 2009 Who Do You Think You Are 2009 Alan Carr Chatty Man 2009 2010 2012 2013 Celebrity Juice 2010 2011 2012 2014 A Comedy Roast 2010 56 This Morning 2011 2013 2014 2015 The Jonathan Ross Show 2014 Mel and Sue 2015 57 Through the Keyhole 2015 Alan Carr s 12 Stars of Christmas 2016 Alan Davies As Yet Untitled 2017 John Bishop In Conversation With 2017 Celebrity Catchphrase 2019 Fitness DVDs Edit Davina Power of 3 released 27 December 2004 Davina My Three 30 Minute Workouts released 5 December 2005 Davina My Pre amp Post Natal Workouts released 5 March 2007 Davina High Energy Five released 3 December 2007 Davina Super Body Workout released 8 December 2008 Davina Fit released 7 December 2009 Davina Body Buff released 6 December 2010 Davina Ultimate Target released 5 December 2011 Davina Intense released 10 December 2012 Davina Fit in 15 released 2 December 2013 Davina 7 Minute Fit released 26 December 2014 Davina 5 Week Fit released 26 December 2015 Davina 30 Day Fat Burn released 26 December 2016 Davina Toned in 10 released 26 December 2017 Bibliography EditDavina s 5 Weeks to Sugar Free released 8 January 2015 Davina s Smart Carbs released 31 December 2015 Lessons I ve Learned released 22 September 2016 Davina s Sugar Free in a Hurry released 29 December 2016 Menopausing ISBN 9780008517786 released 15 September 2022 References Edit a b Husband Stuart 12 June 2005 The Real McCall London The Guardian Observer Retrieved 26 June 2007 a b McCALL Davina British Film Institute Archived from the original on 6 February 2009 Debrett s People of Today 2005 18th ed Debrett s 2005 p 1034 ISBN 1 870520 10 6 Davina McCall in at the deep end The Guardian 15 March 2014 Retrieved 14 November 2021 TV presenter completes memory walk after dad from Gosport diagnosed with dementia Portsmouth co uk Retrieved 14 November 2021 Who Do You Think You Are Series 7 Davina McCall Who Do You Think You Are 15 July 2009 BBC BBC Two Goodall Nigel 2007 Being Davina John Blake ISBN 9781843586845 Retrieved 19 March 2016 Hilton Beth 5 June 2008 Ten Things You Never Knew About Davina McCall Digital Spy Retrieved 20 September 2008 Byrne Ciar 7 December 2005 Davina McCall s 1m deal makes her BBC s first female chat show host Independent London Retrieved 20 September 2008 a b Davina McCall Profile Biogs com URL accessed 3 September 2006 Honey Sam Heap Emily Jane 6 May 2022 Davina McCall s quiet life in Tunbridge Wells and her famous ex husband Kent Live Retrieved 15 March 2023 Davina McCall Profile Hello URL accessed 3 September 2006 ENTERTAINMENT Geldof s Big Brother battle BBC News 20 April 2000 Retrieved 9 January 2014 Big Brother 6 Ofcom to investigate over Makosi s treatment Archived 3 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine Manchester Evening News 16 August 2006 URL accessed 3 September 2006 Complaints Over Davina s Treatment Of Makosi UnrealityTV 17 August 2005 Archived 21 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 3 September 2010 Davina McCall has confidence crisis at 40 Now magazine Retrieved 19 May 2008 Davina I m not leaving Big Brother Digital Spy 13 May 2008 Retrieved 13 May 2008 Davina McCall quits Big Brother Digital Spy 6 May 2008 Retrieved 6 May 2008 McCall rules out Big Brother return Entertainment stv tv 8 April 2011 Archived from the original on 22 December 2011 Retrieved 6 July 2011 The Million Pound Drop is returning as The 100K Drop Radio Times Retrieved 14 July 2017 Davina McCall to host new Channel 4 gameshow Five Minutes to a Fortune TV News Digital Spy 10 January 2013 Retrieved 11 March 2013 Drewett Meg Davina McCall to host nerve shattering new Channel 4 show The Jump Digital Spy Channel 4 recommissions The Jump for a second series Digital Spy Retrieved 21 March 2015 Got to Dance axed by Sky1 after five series Digital Spy Retrieved 21 March 2015 Nissim Mayer 12 August 2015 The spirit of Bullseye has been revived in Sky s new gameshow One Hundred and Eighty TV News Digital Spy Retrieved 19 August 2015 a b BFI Collections Birthrace 2000 BFI Collections 17 March 1999 Archived from the original on 6 April 2021 Retrieved 6 April 2021 a b BFI Collections Birth Race 2000 On Your Marks BFI Collections 17 March 1999 Archived from the original on 6 April 2021 Retrieved 6 April 2021 a b BFI Collections Birth Race 2000 Tonight s the Night BFI Collections 10 April 1999 Archived from the original on 6 April 2021 Retrieved 6 April 2021 Long Lost Family renewed for fourth series by ITV TV News Digital Spy 13 August 2013 Retrieved 8 October 2013 Davina McCall to host ITV Strictly rival Lineup revealed TV News Digital Spy 16 August 2013 Retrieved 8 October 2013 Davina McCall Stepping Out is different to other dance shows TV News Digital Spy 25 August 2013 Retrieved 8 October 2013 a b ITV commissions Life At The Extreme Presented by Davina McCall ITV Press Centre Itv com 27 April 2015 Retrieved 19 August 2015 ITV announces host and panel for new ITV show The Masked Singer Press Centre Retrieved 11 January 2021 The Masked Singer Episode 1 Press Centre Retrieved 11 January 2021 ITV commissions The Masked Dancer Press Centre Retrieved 4 March 2021 Before The Nightly Show remembering Davina McCall s disastrous talk show Davina The Daily Telegraph Rebecca Hawkes 14 March 2017 Retrieved 7 December 2018 W wchannel 2 August 2017 The incredible ThisisDavina tackles modern life s biggest challenges in brand new to W show TheDavinaHour starti Tweet via Twitter Celebrities open letter to Scotland full text and list of signatories The Guardian London 7 August 2014 Retrieved 26 August 2014 TV and Radio Davina McCall gets physical Telegraph Archived from the original on 12 January 2022 Retrieved 8 October 2013 Eastnor Castle News Archive Eastnor to Host GMTV Wedding of the Year Eastnorcastle com Archived from the original on 7 January 2011 Retrieved 8 October 2013 Hallam Katy 12 May 2021 Davina McCall has a really famous ex boyfriend and he saved her life Birmingham Live Retrieved 15 March 2023 Pelley Rich One last thing Davina McCall The Guardian Retrieved 8 October 2013 Interview by Cole Moreton 9 March 2008 Davina McCall I m fine Really It just hurts so much The Independent Retrieved 8 October 2013 Davina McCall interview for Stand Up to Cancer Channel 4 Info Press channel4 com Retrieved 21 March 2015 Long Lost Family on ITV Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell return with more emotional tales of loss of love of wonder Hull Daily Mail 13 July 2014 Archived from the original on 24 September 2015 Retrieved 28 July 2014 Who Do You Think You Are Davina McCall The National Archives Archived from the original on 26 July 2009 Retrieved 16 July 2009 Strictly Davina McCall among BBC One s Sport Relief lineup TV News Digital Spy 21 January 2014 Retrieved 26 August 2014 Davina Beyond Breaking Point Sport Relief Archived from the original on 27 September 2014 Retrieved 26 August 2014 Dead Set E4 com Retrieved 6 July 2011 Davina McCall for time travel makeover show Digital Spy 23 August 2015 Davina McCall Sex Myths and the Menopause channel4 com Retrieved 27 March 2021 Cupid s arrow flies transcontinental in new Channel 4 dating series The Language of Love w t channel4 com Retrieved 4 October 2021 Davina McCall Sex Mind and the Menopause channel4 com Retrieved 1 May 2022 Who Cares Wins returns to Channel 4 channel4 com press Retrieved 26 November 2022 Graham Norton and Davina McCall Tv com Retrieved 12 September 2014 Wightman Catriona 30 September 2010 Davina McCall to appear on Comedy Roast Digital Spy London Retrieved 1 October 2010 Mel amp Sue RadioTimes Retrieved 21 March 2015 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Davina McCall Official website Twitter Davina McCall at IMDb Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Davina McCall amp oldid 1145748797, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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