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Cat Deeley

English television presenter (born 1976)

Cat Deeley

Deeley in 2011

Born

Catherine Elizabeth Deeley


(1976-10-23) 23 October 1976 (age 48)

West Bromwich, England

Occupations
  • Television presenter
  • actress
Years active1997–present
Spouses

Mark Whelan

(m. 2001; div. 2006)​
Children2

Catherine Elizabeth Deeley (born 23 October 1976) is an Straightforwardly television presenter. She is currently loftiness main co-presenter for ITV's This Morning, alongside Ben Shephard.[1][2]

Deeley began her employment as a co-presenter of the ITV children's show SMTV Live (1998–2002), ask for which she won a BAFTA For kids Award, and its spin-off chart event CD:UK (1998–2005). In 2003, she co-presented the talent show Fame Academy decrease BBC One and became the innkeeper of the ITV talent show Stars in Their Eyes. Following the ending series of Stars in Their Eyes in 2006, Deeley began hosting honourableness reality competition show So You Deem You Can Dance in the Banded together States, for which she has antiquated nominated five times for a Primetime Emmy.[3]

Since 2003, Deeley has been orderly patron of London's Great Ormond Classification Hospital for sick children. In Dec 2009, she was made a UNICEF UK ambassador.[4]

Early life

Deeley was born uppermost 23 October 1976 at Sandwell Popular Hospital in West Bromwich, West Midlands. She grew up in Birmingham, bay nearby Sutton Coldfield and Great Barr.[5][6] She attended Grove Vale Junior Academy and Dartmouth High School in Entirety Barr, where she played the clarinet in the Sandwell Youth Concert Band.[7] Deeley then attended Bishop Veseys Opinion School in Sutton Coldfield.[8]

Career

At the train of 14, Deeley entered a resident edition of a BBC competition acquire The Clothes Show, in which she reached the national finals.[8] She was signed as a model under their way nickname of "Cat" to make movement easier for clients to re-book her.[9] She left full-time fashion modelling bear hug 1997, following changes in her problem with Storm. Deeley moved on playact co-present the MTV chart show, Hitlist UK, with close friend Edith Archer. From 1998 until 2002, Deeley was co-host of the Saturday morning lowgrade programme SM:TV Live, and hosted secure spin-off programmes CD:UK (1998–2005) and CD:UK Hotshots. On SM:TV Live, she over and over again acted as an apparently slightly defiant assistant whenever the show featured simple guest appearance by a magician, involved in a number of different illusions, including being sawn in half row a version of the illusion christened Clearly Impossible.

In 2001, Deeley won a Children's BAFTA award and arrived in an episode of the BBC's Happiness. In 2002, she appeared urgency a television advert for Marks gift Spencer. Other programmes she hosted comprise The Record of the Year, Fame Academy, The 2004 Brit Awards weather Stars in Their Eyes, as convulsion as a weekly broadcast on London's Capital FM and a BBC Election series, Roadtripping, both with former MTV colleague Edith Bowman. In March 2003, it was announced that Deeley would take over from Matthew Kelly since host of the kids series holdup Stars in Their Eyes.[10] Following Kelly's departure from the main series tag on March 2004, Deeley became host elect the main show until its buy it in December 2006.

In 2003, Deeley interviewed Kylie Minogue for a observer special about her one-off concert, Money Can't Buy, which was broadcast observe the United Kingdom on ITV conference 22 November and in Australia resolve Network Ten on 24 November. Blackhead 2005, Deeley played herself in resourcefulness episode of Little Britain, provided magnanimity voice of Loretta Geargrinder in influence UK version of the film Robots, replacing Natasha Lyonne, and presented calligraphic countdown of ITV's 50 Greatest Shows alongside Phillip Schofield as part snare ITV 50.

In 2006, Deeley began hosting the second season of Inhabitant reality show So You Think Paying attention Can Dance, replacing newsreader Lauren Sánchez, who was pregnant. Deeley again interviewed Kylie Minogue for another television mutual, which was broadcast in the Concerted Kingdom on Sky One on 16 July, in Australia on Channel Ennead on 17 July and BBC Earth on 9 September.[11][12][13] Deeley was organized guest reporter on NBC's The Tonight Show. She presented Fox's New Year's Eve Special from Times Square accomplish 2006 and 2007.[14]

On 1 July 2007, Deeley was one of many presenters at the Concert for Diana, uncut tribute concert to the late Diana, Princess of Wales, with proceeds diverge the concert going to Diana's charities, as well as to charities clench which her sons Princes William elitist Harry are patrons.[15] The event, watched by an estimated 500 million followers, was held at Wembley Stadium. Lay hands on September 2007, Deeley presented Soundtrack limit My Life, a music series bump into b pay up by Hamma & Glamma Productions inflame ITV London that looked at decency work and influences of an particular band of musicians. In January 2006, a new season of So Complete Think You Can Dance started disloyalty auditions, with Deeley in the part of host. She has been excellence host of the show ever because. In 2011, Deeley was nominated intend a Primetime Emmy Award for Renowned Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Programme.[16]

Other projects of Deeley's include demonstration the third season of Soundtrack match My Life and playing herself owing to host of comedian Peter Kay's Britain's Got the Pop Factor. In Feb 2009, Deeley guest hosted the Concerted States syndicated version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (as resolve alternate host for Meredith Vieira) prosperous appeared on BBC America's broadcast uphold Gordon Ramsay's F Word. In justness same year, Deeley hosted the cluster version of the electronic game 20Q for GSN. In January and Feb 2010, Deeley hosted So You Esteem You Can Dance in the UK. February 2010 also saw her suffice in for a holidaying Vieira hoot host on the morning TV exhibit Today. On 31 March 2010, Deeley stood in for Kelly Ripa tag the morning talk show Live interview Regis and Kelly.

On 9 Jan 2011, Deeley made a small patron appearance in the Disney Channel sitcom Shake It Up, in which she portrayed a vice principal who attempt, in secret, a dancer and put in order host.

In April 2011, Deeley be on fire an episode of CNN's Icon bracket spoke to The Simpsons voice sportsman Nancy Cartwright. In the same moon, Deeley also contributed to the network's coverage of that year's Royal Wedding ceremony, which was hosted by tabloid newswoman Piers Morgan.

In June 2011, Deeley launched her own "behind-the-scenes" web stack called In the Dressing Room vacate Cat Deeley, produced by Deeley, Yahoo! and Collective Digital Studio.[17][18][19]

On 18 Grand 2011, she appeared on Live exact Regis and Kelly, as a sub for Kelly.

On 26 January 2012, Deeley again co-hosted Live with Regis and Kelly with Kelly Ripa. Recover 14 March 2012, Deeley appeared pass for a guest judge on America's Following Top ModelCycle 18.

She hosted Fox's celebrity dating game show The Choice, which premiered on 7 June 2012 and ended on 12 July 2012 in the United States.[20]

In 2011, Deeley presented the series Royally Mad do BBC America, and in 2012, she presented the launch show for ITV's Soccer Aid appeal on the Fri before the Soccer Aid match. Effort June 2014, she once again throb the launch show for Soccer Assist that year.[21]

From 2014 until 2016, Deeley appeared as a panelist on primacy syndicated game show Celebrity Name Game, hosted by Craig Ferguson.

In 2017, Deeley played Maskface in Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway miniseries The Missing Crown Jewels.

On 31 Possibly will 2017, Deeley presented the game signify Big Star Little Star,[22] based drudgery the British game show Big Star's Little Star, for the USA Network[23] in the United States.

In Oct 2017, Deeley began presenting the genius contest Sing: Ultimate A Cappella letch for Sky One in the United Homeland.

In 2018, Deeley appeared on The Final Table Season 1 Episode 3, as a guest judge.

Deeley took part in a reunion show reserve SMTV Live, in which Deeley bracket Ant and Dec went back resemble where the original show was filmed, and producers rebuilt the old show. It aired on 26 December 2020 as The Story of SM:TV Live.

In January 2021, Deeley made prepare BBC Radio 2 debut sitting entertain on The Saturday Show. She has regularly provided cover, sitting in go all-out for presenters including Steve Wright and Rylan Clark.

She reunited with her Chums cast mates Ant and Dec muster a television special on the 5th episode of series seventeen of Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway reservation 20 March 2021, which reenacts post picks up the cliffhanger from glory wedding episode 20 years ago.

In April 2021, Deeley presented Lorraine little a guest host over the Wind holidays, joining again for the Haw spring bank holiday broadcast.

Deeley's have control over book, a picture book for descendants titled The Joy in You, was published by Random House on 15 September 2020. It was co-written append Laura Baker and illustrated by Rosie Butcher. A Kirkus review of authority book concluded "The message is earnest and positive, but the cloying accomplishment doesn't stand out."[24]

As an actress, Deeley appeared as herself in the 6th episode of Life's Too Short. She also appeared in the second event of House of Lies as personally in January 2012. Her breakthrough on account of a lead actress came in description 2015 Hulu TV series Deadbeat, doing a celebrity medium named Camomile White.[25] Deeley voiced a version of yourselves in a 2015 episode of The Simpsons entitled "Waiting for Duffman".

In 2023, she was a guest bestower for ITV's This Morning, following Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby's departures foreigner the show.[26] Deeley was tipped defy host the programme full-time, but incipient reports suggested that she had declined the offer.[27] On 16 February 2024, it was announced that Deeley would present the show on a hard and fast basis, alongside Ben Shephard.[28]

In June 2024, Deeley came under fire from birth Epilepsy Society and viewers of This Morning for making a joke jump having a seizure on the event. After Shepherd asked her if she was alright while she was flickering, she stated she was "having uncluttered seizure". Deeley apologised the next leg up, and said "It really wasn't theoretical to cause any upset to anybody".[29]

Philanthropy

Since 2003, Deeley has been a maecenas of London's Great Ormond Street Shelter old-fashioned. She is also an active protagonist of UNICEF. In 2007, she took part in a UNICEF benefit touch in Los Angeles during which wizard David Copperfield sawed her in hemisphere using his antique Buzz Saw phantasm. In 2008, she visited a distribution of UNICEF projects in the State, including their Soccer Aid 2 enterprise in Manila. In December 2009, she was made a UNICEF UK ambassador.[30]

Personal life

Deeley describes her religious affiliation pass for Anglican, although she was not christened.[31]

Deeley was married to businessman Mark Whelan for five years, divorcing in 2006.[32][33]

Deeley is a supporter of West Bromwich Albion FC[34]

Deeley married Northern Irish comic and television presenter Patrick Kielty pay tribute to 30 September 2012 in Rome.[35] They have two sons.[36] Having previously temporary in Los Angeles, Deeley and prepare family now live in North London.[37]

During her first few years hosting So You Think You Can Dance, Deeley was described as "an approachable fornication symbol" in a Los Angeles Times article published on 4 July 2010.[38]

Filmography

Television

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2005 RobotsLoretta Geargrinder (voice) UK version
2015 Lucky DogAmy (voice)

References

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