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Her [[France|French]] 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. Her relationship with her mother was a difficult one and she has said that her mother "should never have had kids" describing how she once left her, at the age of 12, in a nightclub on her own. She continued to see her father Andrew, a [[graphic designer]], at weekends before moving in with him and his new wife Gaby when she was 13 years old. |
Her [[France|French]] 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. Her relationship with her mother was a difficult one and she has said that her mother "should never have had kids" describing how she once left her, at the age of 12, in a nightclub on her own. She continued to see her father Andrew, a [[graphic designer]], at weekends before moving in with him and his new wife Gaby when she was 13 years old.<ref name="Found"> |
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== Presenting == |
== Presenting == |
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After difficult times, [[Eric Clapton]] helped McCall turn things around. In 1992 she landed a job as a presenter on Ray Coke's Most Wanted on [[MTV]]. She was the Female Voice Dubber on the first series of [[Channel 4]]'s ''[[Eurotrash (TV series)|Eurotrash]]'' in 1993. In 1995 she went on to host the [[ITV]] [[game show]] ''[[God's Gift (TV series)|God's Gift]]'' (transmitted very late at night, around 3am usually, after weekend football highlights) and in 1998 to present the cult dating show ''[[Streetmate]]''. Since 2000 McCall has presented ''[[Big Brother (UK)|Big Brother]]'' (see below for more information). She presented the [[BRIT Awards]] in 2000, as well as the [[BBC]] charity show [[Comic Relief (charity)|Comic Relief]] on several occasions. She presented the ITV show ''[[Don't Try This at Home (TV series)|Don't Try This at Home!]]'' from 1998-2001, ''[[Popstars: The Rivals]]'' (ITV1) in 2002, ''[[The Vault (game show)|The Vault]]'' (ITV1), ''Oblivious'' (ITV1), the reality television series ''[[Reborn in the USA]]'' in 2003, as well as an entertainment series on the subject of love and dating called ''[[Love on a Saturday Night]]'' (ITV1) in 2004. In 2004 she also presented the [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA]] television awards. |
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McCall has also tried a hand at acting appearances in ''Sam's Game'' (2001), a [[Friends]]-style TV [[sitcom]] (also starring [[Ireland|Irish]] comedian [[Ed Byrne]]), which was slammed by the critics and lasted only one series. She has also appeared in the [[Leigh Francis]] comedy sketch shows ''[[Bo Selecta]]'' and ''[[A Bear's Tail]]''. McCall provided the voice of an android version of herself for the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "[[Bad Wolf]]" in 2005, and played herself as a human and subsequently as a bloodthirsty zombie in ''[[Dead Set (TV series)|Dead Set]]'' in 2008. |
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She has featured as a guest on numerous chat shows, and in 2005 appeared on the [[BBC Two]] motoring show ''[[Top Gear (current format)|Top Gear]]'', participating in the programme's "[[Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car (Top Gear)|Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car]]" segment. She rounded the track in 1:57.1, which earned a lowly 67th place on the scoreboard. |
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During 2005, McCall presented the BBC series "He's Having a Baby", which received poor ratings. In December 2005 it was announced that she would be hosting her own [[BBC One]] prime-time chat show called ''[[Davina (talk show)|Davina]]'' in early 2006. Early reviews were scathing of the show, and viewing figures flirted around the 3 million mark (at one point, dropping as low as 2 million), compared to over 6 million watching ''[[The Bill]]'' on [[ITV1]] at the same time. In April 2006, [[BBC One]] axed the show due to the ratings not reaching expectations. |
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It was revealed in March 2006 that [[ITV1]] had signed up McCall to host the [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA]] television awards for the second time in May. In April 2006 McCall was confirmed as the main presenter on [[Sport Relief]] on [[BBC One]] in July of that year, alongside friend [[Chris Evans (presenter)|Chris Evans]]. McCall's involvement with ITV had gone back some years earlier as she often appeared on the pre-programme sequences standing on a stage, something done by other ITV stars like [[Chris Tarrant]]. |
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She has since appeared as a host for [[Red Nose Day 2007]] and, in conjunction, appeared in the video for [[Girls Aloud]] and [[Sugababes]]' cover of "[[Walk This Way#Girls Aloud and Sugababes version|Walk This Way]]", walking down a catwalk. In [[Red Nose Day 2009]], she volunteered to donate £50.00 for kissing [[Doctor Who]] actor [[David Tennant]] who also co-hosted the charitable programme with her. Also on the programme , McCall had been competing against David on the celebrity version of MasterMind. She resumed presenting ''[[Big Brother (UK series 8)|Big Brother]]'' on 30 May 2007. |
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McCall has starred in a documentary, ''Let's Talk Sex'', about [[sex education]], and how sex education is taught in the [[United Kingdom]] (one of the countries of [[Europe]] with the highest teenage pregnancy levels). She also has published a book under the same title. She has also appeared in a video for schools called "Watch Over Me," talking about her drug addiction and peer pressure. |
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In 2006, [[BBC Radio 1]] DJ, and friend to McCall, [[Chris Moyles]] parodied [[The Feeling]]'s song ''[[Love It When You Call]]'' to create a song entirely about her. The song, simply titled ''"The Davina McCall song"'' is one of the most popular parodies downloaded from website ChrisMoyles.net.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chrismoyles.co.uk/soundvault/pafiledb.php?action=category&id=2|title=The Sound Vault|publisher=ChrisMoyles.net|accessdate=2007-01-06}}</ref> |
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On 5 July 2007 McCall was a panellist on the BBC's ''[[Question Time (TV series)|Question Time]]''. It was a special 'Schools' edition, partly produced by students. |
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In December 2007, McCall presented a New Year's edition of ''[[The Friday Night Project]]'', entitled "The Friday Night New Year Project 2007", alongside [[Alan Carr]] and [[Justin Lee-Collins]]. |
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McCall presented [[Sport Relief 2010]] alongside [[James Corden]] and others. |
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She hosted a new Channel 4 gameshow [[The Million Pound Drop]], which ran on Channel 4 from 24th May to 29th May 2010. |
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Despite holding many high profile jobs McCall is best known for hosting all series of ''[[Big Brother (UK)|Big Brother]]'' and ''[[Celebrity Big Brother (UK)|Celebrity Big Brother]]'', except ''[[Big Brother Celebrity Hijack]]'' and ''Teen Big Brother''. Whilst presenting ''Big Brother'' she has become known for her catchphrases such as ''"Big Brother House, this is Davina. You are live on [[Channel 4]]. Please do not swear."'' |
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During presenting ''Big Brother'' series 6, McCall caused controversy when she wore a bikini whilst interviewing contestant [[Big Brother 2005 (UK)#Sam|Sam Heuston]]. Shortly after this, McCall attracted some complaints for her hostile interviewing of housemate [[Makosi Musambasi]] on the final night, which was much criticised in the British press.<ref> [http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/entertainment/filmandtv/tv/s/169/169950_big_brother_6_ofcom_to_investigate_over_makosis_treatment.html "Big Brother 6: Ofcom to investigate over Makosi's treatment"][[Manchester Evening News]], 16 August 2006. URL accessed 3 September 2006</ref> |
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For the 2008 ''Big Brother'' series it was reported that McCall earned £85,000 per episode (one a week).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nowmagazine.co.uk/celebrity-news/tv-news/256052/davina-mccall-has-confidence-crisis-at-40/1/|title=Davina McCall has confidence crisis at 40|publisher=[[Now magazine]]|accessdate=2008-05-19}}</ref> |
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In May 2008, British tabloid ''[[News of the World]]'' reported that she would leave ''Big Brother'' after the 2008 season to concentrate on an acting career.<ref>{{cite news|title=Davina McCall 'quits Big Brother'|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/bigbrother9/a95313/davina-mccall-quits-big-brother.html|publisher=''[[Digital Spy]]''|date=6 May 2008|accessdate=2008-05-06}}</ref> This was later denied by McCall at the ''[[Sex and the City: The Movie|Sex And The City]]'' film premiere in London, where she said "I'm not leaving ''Big Brother''. They would have to kill me before I'd stop doing it".<ref>{{cite news|title=Davina: 'I'm not leaving Big Brother'|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/bigbrother9/a95826/davina-im-not-leaving-big-brother.html|publisher=''[[Digital Spy]]''|date=13 May 2008|accessdate=2008-05-13}}</ref> This was also proven when McCall appeared as a guest on the [[Paul O'Grady Show]] in 2007, clarifying her position with the show and its producers. |
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In October 2008, she appeared as herself in ''[[Dead Set (TV series)|Dead Set]]'', a five-part zombie horror series set in the ''Big Brother'' house.<ref>http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/article1784812.ece</ref> |
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The [[Celebrity Big Brother 2010 (UK)|seventh series of Celebrity Big Brother UK]], hosted by McCall, started 3 January 2010. |
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==Personal life== |
==Personal life== |
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Davina McCall | |
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Born | Davina Lucy Pascale McCall |
Occupation(s) | Actress, television presenter |
Years active | 1990–present |
Spouse(s) | Andrew Leggett (1997-99) Matthew Robertson (2000–present) |
Davina Lucy Pascale McCall[1] (born 16 October 1967) is a British television presenter and actress, most notable for her work on Channel 4's Big Brother reality television series.
Early life
McCall was born in London[1] to Florence (née Hennion) and Andrew McCall,[2] and at the age of three went to live with her paternal grandparents in Surrey after the break-up of her parents' marriage.[3] Her French 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. Her relationship with her mother was a difficult one and she has said that her mother "should never have had kids" describing how she once left her, at the age of 12, in a nightclub on her own. She continued to see her father Andrew, a graphic designer, at weekends before moving in with him and his new wife Gaby when she was 13 years old.[4]
McCall attended the Godolphin and Latymer Girls School,[5] a private school in Hammersmith, London. During her teens McCall developed the eating disorder anorexia, which she has attributed to her fractured childhood and a desperate need for attention. At the age of 15, while studying for her nine O levels and later two more A levels, McCall sang professionally with a band; however when she was 19 she decided to go solo.
During this time she dated old family friend Eric Clapton, who also produced her demo music disc and helped her to try to crack the pop music world.[6][7] Dissatisfied with her near misses in the record industry, she gave up singing and took a job at Models 1 on the men's desk as a booker. She also appeared in a music video for Kylie Minogue, Word Is Out, in a striped sweater and beret, in a nod to her French ancestry.
Later, she ran a restaurant for two years and worked as a singing waitress in Paris. However, after a failed Moulin Rouge cabaret audition (in the January 2010 issue of Sky magazine, Davina denies a Moulin Rouge audition, claiming "I can't dance for toffee"), she returned to London where she quickly became a fixture on the club scene, which eventually led to her becoming a nightclub hostess.[8] It was at this time, during her early 20s, that McCall was a drug addict.[2][8]
Presenting
Her teeth look like that of a donkeys
Personal life
After dating Eric Clapton,[5] McCall married Andrew Leggett in 1997 in Westminster, London; they divorced.
In 2000 at Eastnor Castle Herefordshire, she married Matthew Robertson, presenter of Pet Rescue. They have two daughters, Holly (oldest) and Tilly (youngest) the first born on 22 September 2001 (Hounslow, Greater London) and the second born on 23 September 2003 (Surrey), and a son (Chester, youngest of the three) born on 14 September 2006[9] (Surrey).[10] Coincidentally, they were all born in the same month of different years, and McCall has been heavily pregnant during Big Brothers 2, 4 and 7 and in the early stages of pregnancy of her third child during Celebrity Big Brother 4. She gave birth to all of her children at home, being an advocate of home birth. When McCall was pregnant with her third child, she recorded a DVD/video workout geared towards pregnant women. When hosting the Friday Night Christmas Project, McCall revealed that if she could have any other job besides presenting, she would be a midwife.[citation needed]
Stated on the 31 July 2005, episode of Top Gear that she once had her nipples pierced but removed the rings to breastfeed.
McCall was estranged from her mother, who died in 2008. McCall is close to Caroline, her half-sister from her mother's first marriage.[2]
A sound clip of her daughter Holly saying "International Radio 1" is played on weekdays by Radio 1 presenter Chris Moyles during his breakfast show at the end of the opening link before the first segue.
McCall has a house in Wadhurst, East Sussex.[11]
She has produced several exercise DVDs along with her personal trainers, Mark and Jackie Wren, including Superbody Workout, High Energy Five, The Power of Three and My Three 30-Minute Workouts' and the latest 'Davina Fit'
McCall speaks fluent French, following her time living in Paris.
Family tree
The first episode of the 7th series of the BBC television programme Who Do You Think You Are? revealed that Davina is the great-granddaughter of a Prefect of Police; Célestin Hennion (1862–1915) [12] and the great great great-granddaughter, on her father's side, of James Thomas Bedborough (1787–1860), a stonemason, councillor, Mayor, property developer, and entrepreneur, who worked on Windsor Castle and Upton Park in Slough.[2] Pierre, Hennion's son and McCall's grandfather, gave McCall his father's Royal Victorian Order medal, which she showed on the programme.[2]
In the programme, which was first broadcast on 15 July 2009, McCall learned of Hennion's story from historians Jean-Marc Berliere and Simon Kitson as well as from Françoise Hennion (Hennion's granddaughter and McCall's mother's cousin). After hearing of the part her ancestor played in the Dreyfus affair, she also met with Alfred Dreyfus's great-granddaughter, Yael Ruiz.[2]
Shows
Presenting
- MTV (1992)
- God's Gift (1995)
- Don't Try This at Home! (1998)
- Streetmate (1998)
- A Day in the life of the Shepherds (1999)
- BRIT Awards (2000)
- Big Brother (2000-2010)
- Celebrity Big Brother (2001-2002, 2005-2007, 2009-2010)
- Comic Relief (2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009)
- Oblivious (2001)
- The Vault (2002)
- Popstars: The Rivals (2002)
- BRIT Awards (2003)
- Reborn in the USA (2003)
- Love on a Saturday Night (2004)
- BAFTA (2004)
- He's Having a Baby (2005)
- Davina (2006)
- BAFTA (2006)
- Sport Relief (2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010)
- Let's Talk Sex (2007)
- Big Brother: On The Couch (2007)
- The Friday Night New Year Project (2007)
- 4Music's Davina & Steve's 20 Big Ones (2008)
- Big Brother's Big Mouth (2008, 2009-2010) - as a guest presenter for one week and then main presenter for Big Brother 10.
- Who Do You Think You Are? (2009) - as participant[2]
- Got to Dance (2010)[13]
- The Million Pound Drop (2010-)
Acting
- Sam's Game (2001)
- Doctor Who (2005) - Voice of Davinadroid in the episode Bad Wolf.
- A Bear's Tail (2005) - Dave Ian McCall.
- Dead Set (2008) - A horror parody of Big Brother with McCall playing an undead version of herself.[14]
References
- ^ a b "The Real McCall". The Guardian/Observer. 12 June 2005. Retrieved 2007-06-26.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Who Do You Think You Are?, Series 7, Davina McCall". Who Do You Think You Are?. 15 July 2009. BBC. BBC Two.
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suggested) (help) - ^ Hilton, Beth (5 June 2008). "Ten Things You Never Knew About Davina McCall". Digital Spy. Retrieved 2008-09-20.
- ^ Jones, David (23 June 2007). "Found: Davina McCall's tragic mum". Daily Mail. Retrieved 2008-09-20.
- ^ a b Byrne, Ciar (7 December 2005). "Davina McCall's £1m deal makes her BBC's first female chat-show host". Independent. Retrieved 2008-09-20.
- ^ Davina McCall Profile Biogs.com. URL accessed 3 September 2006
- ^ Meet the Team - Davina McCall BBC Parenting. URL accessed 3 September 2006.
- ^ a b Davina McCall Profile Hello!. URL accessed 3 September 2006
- ^ Sun reports birth of Chester
- ^ Marriages and Births England and Wales 1984-2006
- ^ Big Brother's Davina McCall moves to Wadhurst
- ^ "Who Do You Think You Are? - Davina McCall". The National Archives. Retrieved 16 July 2009.
- ^ Davina McCall Moves To Sky One’s Just Dance – Audition Now! 26-8-2009
- ^ http://www.e4.com/deadset
External links
- Davina's Official Website
- Davina McCall on Twitter
- 'Davina McCall at Unreality TV
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- Davina McCall interviewed by Ginny Dougary (2006)
- Interview with Davina McCall
- "I am Davina McCall" Interview with Heat Magazine