Holly Willoughby Biography
Holly Willoughby is an English model, author, and television presenter. She currently co-hosts ITV’s This Morning and Dancing on Ice with Phillip Schofield.
How old is Holly Willoughby? – Age
She is 41 years old as of 10 February 2022. She was born in 1981 in Brighton, United Kingdom. Her real name is Holly Marie Willoughby.
Holly Willoughby Family – Education
Willoughby is the younger of two daughters born to Brian Willoughby, a double-glazing sales manager, and Linda Willoughby (née Fleming), a former air stewardess. Kelly, her sister, also works in the television industry. She attended the independent Burgess Hill Girls School in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, and The Richard Collyer College in Horsham.
Holly Willoughby Husband
Willoughby married Dan Baldwin, co-founder of Hungry Bear Media and former producer on Ministry of Mayhem, and later executive producer on Celebrity Juice, on August 4, 2007. They have two sons and a daughter and live in Barnes, London. Their first child was born on May 11, 2009, their second on April 14, 2011, and they’re third on September 29, 2014.
Holly Willoughby’s Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of £10 million.
Holly Willoughby CITV
Willoughby won an audition for S Club TV, a show on CITV that featured S Club 7. In this show, actors played members of an alternate S Club. She also appeared in the show S Club 7: Artistic Differences as Zoe, alongside the regular members of the band. Willoughby previously worked as a receptionist and then as a runner for the now-defunct shopping channel Auction World TV.
Willoughby’s first role as a children’s entertainer came in 2004 when she returned to CITV to co-present the Saturday morning entertainment show Ministry of Mayhem. She met her future husband Dan Baldwin, one of the show’s producers, on this show. The title of the show was changed to Holly & Stephen’s Saturday Showdown in 2006 to reflect the popularity of its co-hosts, Holly Willoughby and Stephen Mulhern.
Holly Willoughby Career
Willoughby also started a psychotherapy course at the Open University and took on low-paying jobs. After that, she eventually got a job as an assistant manager, where she convinced a friend to make a showreel of her. Because of this, her agent was able to get in touch with the BBC. Later in 2002, Willoughby hosted several other CBBC children’s shows, including Xchange, a factual entertainment show for kids. CBBC’s version of the BBC talent show Fame Academy, X-perimental, and CBBC at the Fame Academy
Willoughby presented the children’s entertainment program Feel the Fear in 2005, in which the hosts face terrifying challenges. She has also made a few brief appearances on other programs for children. Willoughby handed out the CD: UK for a brief time in the spring of 2005, taking over for Cat Deeley before Myleene Klass, Lauren Laverne, and Johny Pitts took over as regular hosts. Willoughby received a BAFTA Children’s Award in 2006 for her work as a children’s television presenter.
She was chosen in 2006 to co-present the television show Dancing on Ice with Phillip Schofield. In this show, celebrities are paired with professional dancers to learn ice-dancing routines that are judged by an expert panel and voted on by the audience. Due to new responsibilities, Willoughby continued in the position until 2011. Christine Lampard was appointed in her place. Willoughby has presented several other ITV shows, including spin-offs like Celebrity Wrestling: The Xtra Factor ran for two seasons in 2008 and 2009, Greased Lightnin’ in 2007, and Bring It On in 2005.
She replaced Davina McCall as the host of the dating game show Streetmate in 2007, when it was moving from Channel 4 to ITV2. The final season of the show was hosted by Willoughby. Willoughby and Fearne Cotton co-hosted Holly & Fearne Go Dating that same year. On the show, the two hosts tried to hook up with single people they met in the UK.
Willoughby has been a team captain on Celebrity Juice since 2008, presenting series 1–11 and 13–23 (with a maternity leave in series 12). In May 2020, she left the show after 12 years.
Since September 2009, Willoughby has co-hosted ITV’s This Morning alongside Phillip Schofield, taking over for Fern Britton. From Monday through Thursday, the program is presented by Willoughby and Schofield.
Willoughby co-hosted the 2011 charity telethon Text Santa with Ant & Dec. In 2012, 2013, and 2015, she returned to co-host the show with Phillip Schofield.
Willoughby and Reggie Yates began hosting The Voice UK on March 24, 2012. After the second season, she made the decision to leave the show, and Emma Willis took her place in 2014. Willoughby started hosting a new version of Surprise Surprise in 2012. On September 15, 2013, the second season premiered, followed by the third on October 22, 2014, and the fourth on June 21, 2015.
Together with her sister Kelly, Willoughby has written a series of books for children. School for Stars, their first book: In 2013, First Term at L’Etoile was the best-selling children’s book in the UK. Willoughby was the host of the sports-themed panel show Play to the Whistle, which aired on ITV in 2015. The first seven episodes of the series premiered on April 11, 2015. Six episodes of the second series premiered in April 2016, and a third series premiered in 2017.
Meet the Parents, Willoughby’s ITV primetime Saturday night dating show, aired in 2016. The show has been compared by… to Date Blindly Willoughby was said to have received a pay increase of £200,000 in August 2017 to match the salary of her co-host Phillip Schofield. In January of 2018, she returned to host the upcoming Dancing on Ice with Schofield series.
Willoughby was announced as the host of the eighteenth season of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! in August 2018. with Declan Donnelly serving as his regular partner, Anthony McPartlin took a year off. Willoughby is a former Diet Coke UK ambassador and a brand ambassador for Marks & Spencer and Garnier. Willoughby established Wylde Moon, a wellness and lifestyle brand and business, in September 2021.
Holly Willoughby TV Shows
♦ 2022 – Freeze the Fear with Wim Hof
♦ 2022 – The Games
♦ 2022 – Munya and Filly Get Chilly
♦ 2022 – This England
♦ 2021 – The Masked Dancer
♦ 2021 – Ted Lasso
♦ 2020 – Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel
♦ 2019–2021 – Take Off with Bradley & Holly
♦ 2018 – Coronation Street
♦ 2018 – I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!
♦ 2016 – Meet the Parents
♦ 2015–2017 – Play to the Whistle
♦ 2014 – Duck Quacks Don’t Echo
♦ 2013 – Walk on the Wild Side
♦ 2012–2021 – The One Show
♦ 2012–2015 – Surprise Surprise
♦ 2012–2013 – The Voice UK
♦ 2011–2013, 2015 – Text Santa
♦ 2011 – CBeebies Bedtime Stories
♦ 2010 – The Pale Horse