Davina McCall Still Not Leaving Big Brother
To all intents and purposes, Davina McCall is Big Brother – she’s the friendly face who only has to shout a lot and ask breathtakingly awful exit interview questions.
So if Davina McCall ever left Big Brother, the show would obviously fall to pieces. Well, either that or Alexa Chung would instantly start presenting it and nobody would really notice the difference. One or the other.
Anyway, despite a whirlpool of rumours to the contrary, Davina McCall has publicly stated that this won’t be her last season of Big Brother. Which is good for Davina McCall, but you know what that means? It means that this won’t be the last season of Big Brother, either. In fact, it’ll probably go on forever. If you need us, we’ll be crying and drinking bleach in a corner somewhere.
Big Brother has been good for everyone who’s ever hosted it. Look at Dermot O’Leary – after presenting Big Brother’s Little Brother he’s now the host of X Factor, one of the biggest TV shows in the country. Then there’s Russell Brand – the host of Big Brother’s Big Mouth – who’s now a bona fide Hollywood star. And then there’s Davina McCall.
As the host of the main Big Brother show, Davina McCall has obviously enjoyed spoils far greater than anyone else – some hair dye adverts that require her to talk to her never-seen mother in the same chilling way that sociopaths talk to corpses that they’ve just stabbed to death.
OK, so maybe Davina McCall’s career hasn’t gone as well as she expected. Other than the hair dye ads, Davina McCall’s greatest achievement was her BBC1 chatshow – a chatshow that was quickly dropped when people staggeringly decided that they didn’t want to watch a 40-year-old shouting attention-seeking questions at Max Beesley for an hour – and an equally disastrous stint as a radio DJ.
But there’ll always be Big Brother. And although this year’s Big Brother was widely believed to be Davina McCall’s swansong, Davina has publicly stated that she’s going to keep presenting Big Brother forever. Well, either forever or until people get sick of it and they stop making it, probably within in the next couple of years. Whichever one comes first. The Press Association reports:
Davina McCall has slammed rumours she is quitting Big Brother. The TV presenter has hosted the reality TV show since it began eight years ago and it has been claimed this year’s series will be her last. Asked if the rumours were true, Davina said: “No. Bollocks! Am I allowed to say that? Good!”
In a way it’s reassuring to think that Davina McCall will keep presenting Big Brother until she’s a wizened old lady rolled out once a year to pull funny faces, shout telephone numbers and ask fame-seeking dicksplats not to swear. In another way the thought of it makes us feel all claustrophobic and panicky and slightly unwell, but we’ll just stick with the first one for the benefit of this article.
Besides, it’s wise for Davina to keep hosting Big Brother, because without it she’s only got those hair dye adverts and you know what they say – there’s always someone younger and prettier waiting to babble on about hair to the dispossessed voice of their dead mother that only they can hear.
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