Davina McCall

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Davina McCall

Profession: Presenter
Place/Date of Birth: London, 16 October 2020

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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Biography

Born on October 16 1967 to French ’wild child’ Florence and English Graphic Designer Andrew, Davina McCall was raised by her grandparents in Surrey. Educated at the famous Latymer and Godolphin School she gained nine O levels and two A levels but rather than continue in education she followed in the bohemian family footsteps.

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.
October 2007