1. Catherine Elizabeth Deeley was born on 23 October 1976 and is an English television presenter.
45 Facts About Cat Deeley
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Cat Deeley is currently the main co-presenter for ITV's This Morning, alongside Ben Shephard.
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Since 2003, Cat Deeley has been a patron of London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for sick children.
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Cat Deeley was born on 23 October 1976 at Sandwell General Hospital in West Bromwich, West Midlands.
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Cat Deeley grew up in Birmingham, in nearby Sutton Coldfield and Great Barr.
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Cat Deeley attended Grove Vale Junior School and Dartmouth High School in Great Barr, where she played the clarinet in the Sandwell Youth Concert Band.
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At the age of 14, Cat Deeley entered a regional edition of a BBC competition for The Clothes Show, in which she reached the national finals.
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Cat Deeley was signed as a model under her nickname of "Cat" to make it easier for clients to re-book her.
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Cat Deeley left full-time fashion modelling in 1997, following changes in her contract with Storm.
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Cat Deeley moved on to co-present the MTV chart show, Hitlist UK, with close friend Edith Bowman.
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From 1998 until 2002, Cat Deeley was co-host of the Saturday morning children's programme SM:TV Live, and hosted its spin-off programmes CD:UK and CD:UK Hotshots.
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In 2001, Cat Deeley won a Children's BAFTA award and appeared in an episode of the BBC's Happiness.
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In March 2003, it was announced that Cat Deeley would take over from Matthew Kelly as host of the kids series of Stars in Their Eyes.
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In 2003, Cat Deeley interviewed Kylie Minogue for a television special about her one-off concert, Money Can't Buy, which was broadcast in the United Kingdom on ITV on 22 November and in Australia on Network Ten on 24 November.
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In 2005, Cat Deeley played herself in an episode of Little Britain, provided the voice of Loretta Geargrinder in the UK version of the film Robots, replacing Natasha Lyonne, and presented a countdown of ITV's 50 Greatest Shows alongside Phillip Schofield as part of ITV 50.
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In 2006, Cat Deeley began hosting the second season of American reality show So You Think You Can Dance, replacing newsreader Lauren Sanchez, who was pregnant.
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Cat Deeley was a guest reporter on NBC's The Tonight Show.
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Cat Deeley presented Fox's New Year's Eve Special from Times Square in 2006 and 2007.
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On 1 July 2007, Cat Deeley was one of many presenters at the Concert for Diana, a tribute concert to the late Diana, Princess of Wales, with proceeds from the concert going to Diana's charities, as well as to charities of which her sons Princes William and Harry are patrons.
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Cat Deeley has been the host of the show ever since.
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In 2011, Cat Deeley was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Programme.
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In February 2009, Deeley guest hosted the United States syndicated version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and appeared on BBC America's broadcast of Gordon Ramsay's F Word.
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In January and February 2010, Cat Deeley hosted So You Think You Can Dance in the UK.
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On 31 March 2010, Cat Deeley stood in for Kelly Ripa on the morning talk show Live with Regis and Kelly.
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On 9 January 2011, Cat Deeley made a small guest appearance in the Disney Channel sitcom Shake It Up, in which she portrayed a vice principal who is, in secret, a dancer and a host.
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On 26 January 2012, Cat Deeley again co-hosted Live with Regis and Kelly with Kelly Ripa.
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On 14 March 2012, Cat Deeley appeared as a guest judge on America's Next Top Model Cycle 18.
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Cat Deeley hosted Fox's celebrity dating game show The Choice, which premiered on 7 June 2012 and ended on 12 July 2012 in the United States.
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In 2011, Cat Deeley presented the series Royally Mad for BBC America, and in 2012, she presented the launch show for ITV's Soccer Aid appeal on the Friday before the Soccer Aid match.
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From 2014 until 2016, Deeley appeared as a panelist on the syndicated game show Celebrity Name Game, hosted by Craig Ferguson.
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On 31 May 2017, Cat Deeley presented the game show Big Star Little Star, based on the British game show Big Star's Little Star, for the USA Network in the United States.
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In October 2017, Cat Deeley began presenting the talent contest Sing: Ultimate A Cappella for Sky One in the United Kingdom.
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In 2018, Cat Deeley appeared on The Final Table Season 1 Episode 3, as a guest judge.
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In January 2021, Cat Deeley made her BBC Radio 2 debut sitting in on The Saturday Show.
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Cat Deeley has regularly provided cover, sitting in for presenters including Steve Wright and Rylan Clark.
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Cat Deeley reunited with her Chums cast mates Ant and Dec for a television special on the fifth episode of series seventeen of Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway on 20 March 2021, which reenacts and picks up the cliffhanger from the wedding episode 20 years ago.
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Cat Deeley appeared in the second episode of House of Lies as herself in January 2012.
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Cat Deeley voiced a version of herself in a 2015 episode of The Simpsons entitled "Waiting for Duffman".
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Cat Deeley was tipped to host the programme full-time, but initial reports suggested that she had declined the offer.
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In June 2024, Cat Deeley came under fire from the Epilepsy Society and viewers of This Morning for making a joke about having a seizure on the show.
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Cat Deeley apologised the next day, and said "It really wasn't supposed to cause any upset to anybody".
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Since 2003, Cat Deeley has been a patron of London's Great Ormond Street Hospital.
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Cat Deeley describes her religious affiliation as Anglican, although she was not christened.
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Cat Deeley was married to businessman Mark Whelan for five years, divorcing in 2006.
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Cat Deeley married Northern Irish comedian and television presenter Patrick Kielty on 30 September 2012 in Rome.