Davina McCall: “I don’t walk around screaming”

Davina McCall has said that she is not a “shouty” presenter. The Million Pound Drop host told Metro that her reputation was a misconception based on her inexperience during Big Brother’s first run in 2000.

“On the first series of Big Brother, there were always 1,000 people in the audience and I didn’t know you didn’t need to shout with a stick microphone,” McCall said.

“I just knew I couldn’t hear myself. So I shouted. Since then I’m known as the shouty presenter. But actually, I don’t shout. I don’t walk around screaming.”

Asked if it was a relief to leave the show, McCall added: “It wasn’t a relief but, after saying goodbye in a massively public way, to go back would have been crazy, especially as I’d been setting myself up for life after Big Brother.

“I had other programmes and other TV to make.”

McCall was replaced by Brian Dowling when the reality show was resurrected by Channel 5 last year.

Dowling said that he hoped viewers would not compare him to McCall, while she praised him as a presenter with “buckets of personality and tons of TV experience”.

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