Davina McCall Biography
Davina McCall is a British television host. From 2005 to 2015, she was a regular co-presenter of the Comic Relief annual telethons. She was the host of the Channel 4 shows Streetmate, The Million Pound Drop, and The Jump.
How old is Davina McCall? – Age
She is 55 years old as of 16 October 2022. She was born in 1967 in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. Her real name is Davina Lucy Pascale McCall.
Davina McCall Family – Education
McCall was born to a French mother, Florence, and an English father, Andrew McCall, who works for the Portsmouth Harbour Authority as a graphic designer and event organizer. After her parents’ divorce, she went to live with her paternal grandparents in Surrey when she was three years old. Her mother Florence had returned to Paris, and McCall only saw her on vacation. McCall went to St Catherine’s School in Bramley, near Guildford, Surrey, and Godolphin and Latymer Girls School in Hammersmith, West London. McCall completed two A levels and nine O levels of secondary school coursework.
Is Davina McCall in a Relationship? – Wife – Children
In 1997, she wed Andrew Leggett for the first time. Matthew Robertson, the host of Pet Rescue, and McCall were wed in June 2000 at Eastnor Castle in Herefordshire. Together, Holly, Tilly, and Chester, a son, were their three children. The couple split up in November 2017.
Davina McCall’s Net Worth
He has an estimated et worth of $4 Million.
Davina McCall Menopause Book – Menopause Documentary – Addiction
Let’s Talk Sex, a television documentary about sex education and how it is practiced in the UK, was hosted by McCall (which then had one of the countries of Europe with the highest teenage pregnancy levels). She also released a series of companion books. Additionally, McCall made an appearance in the “Watch Over Me” educational video where she discussed her drug addiction and peer pressure.
Davina McCall Channel 4
McCall hosted the cult dating show Streetmate in 1998, during which she traveled the country meeting single people and matching them up. McCall co-hosted the charity telethon Stand Up to Cancer with Alan Carr, Christian Jessen, and Adam Hills from 2012 to 2016. McCall and Carr hosted a companion series, Stars at Your Service, as part of the 2014 telethon.
McCall presented one series of Five Minutes to a Fortune in April 2013. From January 2014 to March 2017, McCall hosted the reality show The Jump, which aired live from Innsbruck and Kühtai in Austria. McCall hosted Make My Body Better on Channel 4 in 2016.
Davina McCall Big Brother
McCall was chosen to host the first season of Big Brother, in which ten housemates were locked in a sealed house for up to nine weeks while their every move was filmed and broadcast as a daily highlights television show. McCall hosted the weekly live eviction show, in which one contestant was evicted from the house each week until the last housemate was declared the winner. McCall also hosted the celebrity version Celebrity Big Brother, the first series of which aired in March 2001 for eight days.
McCall’s performance on the sixth series’ final night in 2005 drew press attention and some criticism for her treatment of housemate Makosi Musambasi. The Friday Night New Year Project 2007 was a special edition of The Friday Night Project that McCall unveiled in December 2007.
By Big Brother’s ninth season in 2008, McCall was reportedly making £85,000 per episode. addressing tabloid rumors that she was going to leave Big Brother before the series. But the ninth season, which ended up being the least watched summer season in the show’s history, was a low point.
For the tenth and eleventh series of the live Big Brother companion show, Big Brother’s Big Mouth, McCall took over as the show’s regular host after it was restructured into an hour-long program following the weekly live eviction show. Previously, McCall held the position after each daily highlights program. With viewership declining, Channel 4 decided that the eleventh series, which aired in summer 2010, would be the final Big Brother broadcast on their channel, despite the fact that the show’s future was in the hands of the rights holder Endemol. She hosted the eleventh and final regular series of Celebrity Big Brother after presenting the seventh and final series in January 2010. As a series finale on Channel 4, McCall also hosted the Ultimate Big Brother show, which aired immediately after the main series and featured past celebrity and non-celebrity housemates.
When Channel 5 announced in April 2011 that they had obtained the rights to relaunch Big Brother in the summer of 2011, McCall confirmed she would not be returning as host. She had already made the decision to leave the program after Ultimate Big Brother. She endorsed Emma Willis as her replacement and expressed her continued belief in the show’s potential. Brian Dowling, the winner of Big Brother 2 and Ultimate Big Brother, was eventually chosen to replace McCall as host of the Channel 5 version; however, in 2013, Emma Willis took over as the new host.
McCall started presenting a brand-new game show, The Million Pound Drop, on Channel 4 in between the final celebrity and regular seasons of Big Brother. The final episode aired on March 20, 2015, and the primetime series was cancelled in 2016. On July 14, 2017, it was announced that the format would be revived as a daytime series called The £100K Drop.