![]() The ninth series proved to be a low point, however, becoming the least watched summer series in the show's history. They would have to kill me before I'd stop doing it". Responding to tabloid claims before the series that she was about to quit Big Brother she said, "I'm not leaving. In December 2007, McCall presented a New Year's edition of The Friday Night Project, entitled The Friday Night New Year Project 2007.īy the ninth series of Big Brother in 2008, McCall was earning a reported £85,000 per episode. McCall's performance on the final night of the sixth series in 2005 attracted press attention and some complaints for her treatment of housemate Makosi Musambasi. McCall also hosted the celebrity version Celebrity Big Brother, the first series of which ran for eight days in March 2001. McCall hosted the weekly live eviction show, where one contestant would be removed from the house, until the last housemate became the winner. 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. In 1998, McCall hosted cult dating show Streetmate in which she toured the country meeting single people and matching them up. In 1995, she went on to host the ITV late night game show God's Gift. In 1994, McCall was hired as a presenter on Ray Cokes' Most Wanted on MTV Europe. Work in this period also included an appearance as a dancer in the video for the 1991 Kylie Minogue single " Word Is Out", wearing a striped sweater and beret in a nod to her French ancestry. On her return to London she worked on the nightclub scene as a hostess. Later she ran a restaurant for two years before a brief spell in Paris as a Moulin Rouge-style cabaret performer. ĭissatisfied with her lack of success in the music industry, McCall gave up singing and took a job at Models 1 on the men's desk as a booker. By age 19, she had decided to pursue a professional career as a solo classical artist, and briefly commenced classical vocal coaching. McCall's first career was as a singer, and she had been performing in a band, Lazy Bear, while still at school. At secondary level, McCall studied for nine O levels and two A levels. McCall attended St Catherine's School, Bramley near Guildford, Surrey and Godolphin and Latymer Girls School, a private school in Hammersmith, West London. Her mother Florence-whom McCall has described as something of a "wild child" and later, specifically as "an alcoholic"-returned to Paris, and McCall saw her only when on holidays. At the age of three she went to live with her paternal grandparents in Surrey after the break-up of her parents' marriage. McCall was born on 16 October 1967 in Wimbledon, London, to a French mother, Florence (née Hennion) and an English father, Andrew McCall, a graphic designer and events organiser for Portsmouth Harbour Authority. Since 2020, she has been a judge on the ITV musical competition show The Masked Singer, and since 2021, a spin-off of the show, The Masked Dancer. McCall was a regular co-presenter of the Comic Relief annual telethons from 2005 to 2015.įrom 2010 to 2014, McCall presented the Sky One dance competition show Got to Dance. She was the presenter of the reality show Big Brother during its run on Channel 4 between 20. Davina Lucy Pascale McCall (born 16 October 1967) is an English television presenter.
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