Davina Lucy Pascale McCall was born on 16 October 1967 and is an English television presenter.
47 Facts About Davina McCall
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Davina McCall was the presenter of the reality show Big Brother during its run on Channel 4 between 2000 and 2010.
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Davina McCall hosted Channel 4's Streetmate, The Million Pound Drop, Five Minutes to a Fortune, and The Jump, as well as ITV's The Biggest Loser, Long Lost Family, and This Time Next Year.
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From 2010 to 2014, Davina McCall presented the Sky One dance competition show Got to Dance.
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Davina McCall was born on 16 October 1967 in Wimbledon, London, to a French mother, Florence and an English father, Andrew Davina McCall, a graphic designer and events organiser for Portsmouth Harbour Authority.
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Davina McCall attended St Catherine's School, Bramley near Guildford, Surrey and Godolphin and Latymer Girls School, a private school in Hammersmith, West London.
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At secondary level, Davina McCall studied for nine O levels and two A levels.
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Dissatisfied with her lack of success in the music industry, Davina McCall gave up singing and took a job at Models 1 on the men's desk as a booker.
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In 1994, Davina McCall was hired as a presenter on Ray Cokes' Most Wanted on MTV Europe.
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In 1998, Davina McCall hosted cult dating show Streetmate in which she toured the country meeting single people and matching them up.
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Davina McCall was chosen as the presenter of the inaugural series of Big Brother, 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.
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Davina McCall hosted the weekly live eviction show, where one contestant would be removed from the house, until the last housemate became the winner.
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Davina McCall hosted the celebrity version Celebrity Big Brother, the first series of which ran for eight days in March 2001.
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In December 2007, Davina McCall presented a New Year's edition of The Friday Night Project, entitled The Friday Night New Year Project 2007.
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Davina 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.
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Davina McCall gave her backing to Emma Willis as her replacement, stating she still believed the show had potential.
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In between the final celebrity and regular editions of Big Brother on Channel 4, Davina McCall began presenting a new game show, The Million Pound Drop.
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From 2012 to 2016, Davina McCall co-hosted charity telethon Stand Up to Cancer with Alan Carr, Christian Jessen and Adam Hills.
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From January 2014 to March 2017, Davina McCall presented reality competition The Jump which was broadcast live from Innsbruck and Kuhtai in Austria.
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In 2016, Davina McCall presented Make My Body Better on Channel 4.
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Davina McCall co-presented the first series of Prickly Heat alongside Julian Clary on Sky1.
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Davina McCall was replaced by Denise van Outen for further two series.
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On 20 December 2009, Davina McCall began hosting reality programme Got to Dance.
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In 2015, Davina McCall presented One Hundred and Eighty, a darts-based game show for Sky1.
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Davina 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.
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Davina McCall co-presented four series of Don't Try This at Home for ITV.
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Davina McCall's co-presenters were Kate Thornton, Paul Hendy and Darren Day.
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When Don't Try This at Home ended in 2001, Davina McCall continued with the channel, presenting series such as Popstars: The Rivals and The Vault in 2002, Reborn in the USA in 2003 and Love on a Saturday Night in 2004.
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Davina McCall hosted the British Academy Television Awards 2004 for ITV and again in 2006.
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In 2011, Davina McCall began hosting The Biggest Loser and Long Lost Family.
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In 2013, Davina McCall presented Stepping Out which was seen as a rival to BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing.
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In January 2017, Davina McCall guest presented three episodes of This Morning alongside Phillip Schofield.
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Davina McCall returned to guest present an episode in February 2018 with Ore Oduba.
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Davina McCall guest presented five episodes of The Nightly Show in March 2017.
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On 9 September 2019, Davina McCall was announced as a judge for The Masked Singer, the UK version of the international music game show Masked Singer.
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On 4 March 2021, it was announced by ITV that Davina 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.
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Davina McCall has been one of the co-presenters of the annual British charity telethons that are organised by Comic Relief on BBC One.
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Davina McCall had previously presented or appeared on various related Comic Relief shows, including: The Record Breaker, Naked Red Nose Ground Force in Practice and Say Pants to Poverty, The Big Hair Do and Comic Relief Does Fame Academy.
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From early 2006, McCall fronted her own prime-time chat show, Davina.
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In 2001, Davina McCall appeared with Ed Byrne, Tristan Gemmill and Tameka Empson as the title character in Sam's Game, a Friends-style sitcom.
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Davina McCall has appeared in a video for schools called "Watch Over Me," talking about her drug addiction and peer pressure.
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Davina McCall is the face of cosmetics brand Garnier in the United Kingdom.
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In 2022, Davina McCall released a book entitled Menopausing; in 2023 it won Book of the Year at the British Book Awards.
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In June 2000 Davina McCall married her second husband Matthew Robertson, presenter of Pet Rescue, at Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire.
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Davina McCall 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.
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Davina McCall is fluent in French, as her mother is French.
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Davina McCall met Alfred Dreyfus's great-granddaughter, Yael Ruiz, after learning of the part her ancestor Celestin Hennion played in the Dreyfus affair.