Davina McCall
- Profession: Presenter
- Place/Date of Birth: London, 16 October 2020
As normal, we can expect all manner of extrovert freaks, all the better in that they’re generally failed or forgotten celebrities and therefore desperately, desperately needy!
Let the car crash television commence.
Davina is ’biggest flop of 2006’ - Dec 15 2006
Davina McCall’s BBC One talk show has been named the TV’s biggest flop of the year.
Trade magazine Broadcast has panned the Big Brother host’s chat show after it attracted an average of just 2.6 million viewers.
The show was launched in February but ended in April, after struggling in its mid-week slot.
Davina, 39, was disappointed the show wasn’t a hit and was mortified when critics said she was "out of her depth".
The list of the biggest TV flops of the year also included Philip Schofield’s series, It’s Now Or Never, which was axed after just one episode.
The show, which saw contestants surprise a friend with an impromptu song and dance number in a public place, received terrible reviews and low ratings.
But there is good news for Davina. Big Brother 7, won by Pete Bennett, was named one of the successes of the year, along with The Apprentice and Strictly Come Dancing.
Davina fixes Rebecca up - April 04
Rebecca Loos has appeared on Davina McCall’s dating show, Love on a Saturday Night.
The woman at the centre of the Becks sex scandal was introduced by Davina as a ’girl whose love life has been a right old mess’ and went on to pick 6’ 7" firefighter Chad Eagle as her date on the new dating show. The couple are to be sent to Rebecca’s home town of Madrid.
Davina’s back! - April 04
Davina McCall stunned Bafta guests by looking fabulous after giving birth.
The host of the show wore a beautiful red gown which put the fashion journo’ s pens into overdrive. Davina gave birth to her second child only recently but is back in shape and looking better than ever ready to get back on our TV screens this May for the fifth series of Big Brother.
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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