Davina McCall
Davina Lucy Pascale McCall is an English television presenter and former model. She was the presenter of Big Brother during its run on Channel 4 between 2000 and 2010. She has also hosted Channel 4’s The Million Pound Drop, Five Minutes to a Fortune and The Jump. In 2020, McCall appears on the judging panel on ITV’s The Masked Singer.
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Davina Lucy Pascale McCall is an English television presenter and former model. She was the presenter of Big Brother during its run on Channel 4 between 2000 and 2010. She has also hosted Channel 4’s The Million Pound Drop, Five Minutes to a Fortune and The Jump as well as ITV’s Long Lost Family and This Time Next Year. In 2020, McCall appears on the judging panel on ITV’s The Masked Singer. In June 2020, It was announced McCall would be hosting Big Brother: Best Shows Ever alongside Rylan Clark-Neal. McCall was born on 16 October 1967 in Wimbledon, London to a French mother, Florence, and an English father, Andrew McCall. She is fluent in French, due to her French mother. She studied for nine O levels and two A levels at secondary level. She had a difficult childhood, and has described her mother as something of a \”wild child\” and later, specifically as \”an alcoholic\” McCall saw her only when on holidays in Paris. She worked as a dancer in the 1991 Kylie Minogue single \”Word Is Out\”, wearing a striped sweater and beret in a nod to herFrench ancestry. In 1992, she 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. In 1998, she hosted cult dating show Streetmate in which she toured the country meeting single people and matching them up.
In 2007, she presented The Friday Night New Year Project, The Big Brother companion show for the eleventh and eleventh series. In 2008, she became the regular presenter of the live companion series Big Brother’s Big Mouth. In 2010, she announced she would not be returning to Big Brother after it was dropped by Channel 4 in 2010 and relaunched by Channel 5 the following year. She decided not to return as host after the show was dropped in 2010. In 2011, she said she would stop doing Big Brother before the tenth series. She became the least watched presenter in the show’s history in the summer of 2012. In 2013, she revealed she would be leaving the show in 2014. She said: ‘I’m not leaving Big Brother…. They would have to kill me before I’d stop doing it. I’d stopped doing it before they killed me.’ In 2014, she appeared in a documentary called Big Brother in the Big Brother House, about the history of the show. In 2015, she starred in a film about the show, Big Brother In The Big House, which was released in the UK and the US. In 2016, she also starred in the film Big Brother 2, which aired in Australia and Canada.
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