Davina McCall
- Profession: Presenter
- Place/Date of Birth: London, 16 October 2020
Davina’s new show slated - Mar 9 2007
Davina McCall’s new show, Let’s Talk About Sex, has been slated by a family watchdog which has called it "misleading", it’s been reported.
The Channel 4 show apparently sees Davina and four teenagers visit a Dutch Youth Centre where young children learn about sex acts, in a bid to examine the link between poor sex education and high teenage pregnancy rates.
But pressure group Family and Youth Concern has appealed for the show to be withdrawn, saying it does not represent all Dutch schools and that teenage pregnancy rates actually rose after sex education became compulsory, the Daily Mail reports.
Spokesman Norman Wells told the paper: "The explicit approach to sex education featured in this programme is not at all typical of Dutch schools, but represents the extreme end of a very broad spectrum.
"They omit to mention that in the years following the introduction of compulsory sex education classes in Dutch schools, teenage pregnancy went up rather than down."
The show is due to be shown an hour before the watershed next month.
Davina: I had sex too young - Mar 7 2007
Davina McCall has waded into the debate about teenage sex it seems - admitting that she had sex too young.
The mum-of-three revealed that she felt pressure to lose her virginity because of lack of sex education at school.
She told First magazine: "I think I probably had sex too young. And indeed with somebody that, given the proper education, I may have had the strength to say ’no’ to."
The presenter has been open about her troubled childhood - which saw her live with her grandparents after her parents divorced - and then to London to live with her dad and his second wife.
She said: "I lived in a small village and went to a girls’ school. I don’t think I’d ever seen a boy. Suddenly I was thrust into London life. It was thrilling."
The 39-year-old is now set to set to host Let’s Talk Sex, a new Channel 4 show exploring the crisis of teen pregnancies and spiralling rates of sexually transmitted infections in the UK.
Davina slates Sinatra? - Jan 22 2007
Big Brother presenter Davina McCall is already getting stick for her "soft" interview with Jade Goody - and now it seems she’s set to face the wrath of Frank Sinatra fans.
The 39-year-old is about to reveal that Old Blue Eyes is her pet hate, calling him a "pub singer" on BBC2’s Room 101, the Daily Express reports.
"He can’t sing, he’s out of tune and he’s ruined my karaoke evenings for the rest of my life with all those people singing My Way and New York, New York," she reportedly moans to host Paul Merton.
"If you had Frank in the X Factor, there’s no way he would get anywhere, not even past the auditions! He’s a pub singer.
"I can’t listen to him. I can’t believe that his music was so popular. He was probably like a boy band person who didn’t have much talent." Ouch!
Davina welcomes in Celeb BB 2007 - Jan 3 2007
After a run of failed appearences in 2006 Davina returns to our screens in a storm of celebrities with the first BB show of 2007. (Celebrity Big Brother)
Helena Bonham Carter
Hugh Laurie
Rachel Weisz
Faces in Fashion
Ricci Stoene
Sadie Frost
Musicians
DJ Jon Carter
Graham Coxon
Ms Dynamite
Writers & Artists
Amanda Craig
Features
Celeb Rehab
Keeping up with the WAGs...
Profiles: Film
Angelina Jolie
Keira Knightley
Tom Cruise
Profiles: Music
Britney Spears
Kylie Minogue
Madonna
Profiles: Fashion
Kate Moss
Naomi Campbell
Victoria Beckham
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An anorexic in her teenage years, she sang professionally, dated Eric Clapton, appeared in a Kylie video and eventually bagged herself a job as a booker at Models One. However, the job was short lived and before long Davina found herself auditioning for a Moulin Rouge style cabaret in Paris, working as a singing waitress and running a restaurant. Upon her return to London Davina took a hostess job at a club and became addicted to cocaine, ecstasy and heroin.
Help from old friend Eric Clapton saw Davina turn her life around. She took a job presenting on MTV before being handed late night Channel 4 show God’s Gift. After moderate success as the front woman for dating show Streetmate the now established presenter was offered a job on upcoming reality show Big Brother. The rest, of course, is history.
Several other jobs have resulted in less praise - turning her hand to acting in Sam’s Game was a disaster while her own chat show was also less than well received. Meanwhile The Vault, Love on a Saturday Noght and Don’t Try This At Home have failed to reach anywhere near the success of BB.
Davina was briefly married to Andrew Leggat in 1997, however she divorced and in 2000 married Pet Rescue presenter Matthew Robertson. The couple live in Chiswick and have three children, Holly, Tilly and Chester. She is quoted as saying that if she wasn’t a presenter she’d happily retrain as a midwife - Davina’s happy suburban family couldn’t be further away from her pre-TV years. Bless.
November 2007