Davina McCall fronts a show where singletons' grown-up kids help them find love with a stranger, but her own approach to romance was the complete opposite. After splitting from second husband Matthew Robertson in 2017, she found love again not with a new Romeo but with an old friend. She first met hairstylist Michael Douglas – not the actor – while working on Big Brother from 2000 to 2010.
But the pair did not become an official item until 2019. Davina says: “I was lucky that Michael is someone I already knew. When you know someone, you can trust them and you know that they know you.
It’s a solid, nice feeling.” READ MORE: People left 'mind-blown' after discovering hack to measure spaghetti perfectly each time READ MORE: 'I went from living in mouldy flat to being a millionaire – it was pretty easy' The presenter, 57 next month, had not expected to fall in love again in her fifties – and had also thought her TV career would be over by this time too. Davina, who in January was made an MBE for services to broadcasting, says: “I honestly felt that I might be retired by the public by the time I was about 50.
Then I got to 51 and thought ‘don’t tell anyone, no one’s noticed, I can just carry on quietly’.” And after winning a special recognition gong at the National Television Awards last week, Davina tells the Mirror backstage: “I feel like I’m having one of the greatest decades of my life. “It’s so fun.
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