Davina McCall picks up her MBE
Davina McCall has been awarded an MBE for companies and broadcasting following a tv profession spanning greater than 20 years.
The Masked Singer panellist, 56, was offered with the award at an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace this afternoon.
She was joined alongside photographer Nick Knight and designer Roksanda Ilinci who additionally picked up their honours.
After receiving phrase that she was included within the King’s birthday honours to obtain an MBE, Davina beforehand gushed how a lot it meant to her.
She mentioned on the time: ‘I am unable to imagine it. It’s an incredible honour and it actually means an incredible deal,’ she mentioned, in an announcement beforehand.
Davina McCall has been awarded an MBE for companies and broadcasting following a tv profession spanning greater than 20 years
The Masked Singer panellist, 56, was offered with the award at an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace this afternoon
McCall lately admitted that she’s been sending letters often to the royals since a younger age
Not solely that, McCall lately admitted that she’s been sending letters often to the royals since a younger age.
‘It is a bit bit bizarre,’ The Masked Singer panellist mentioned. ‘I’ve been writing to the Royal Family since I used to be eight. I began off with a letter to the Queen. I obtained a letter with the wax on the again.
‘I then wrote one to Princess Margaret, [and] to Princess Diana after the Panorama interview.
‘I wrote to Prince Charles throughout his ‘Climategate’ when everybody was ridiculing him. I wrote to William and Kate.’
She added: ‘When I obtained my MBE, I obtained a letter from Prince William saying, ‘I simply need to say congratulations. We are so happy for you’. It meant so much to me.’
Davina started her TV profession presenting in 1994 on MTV Europe, earlier than shifting onto Hitlist UK the yr after.
But her large break got here in 2000, when she landed the function of then-contemporary Channel 4 actuality present Big Brother.
Davina presents the Big Brother double eviction night time in September 2008
She went on to current the favored British present till 2010 in addition to a number of sequence of the weekly eviction spin-off and superstar version.
Shortly after McCall started internet hosting weight-loss present The Biggest Loser on ITV although the sequence was cancelled in 2012.
Her newest mission, introduced launched final yr noticed her star within the ‘midlife Love Island, My Mum, Your Dad, which was massively profitable in its first season.
As effectively as her programme presenting duties, McCall can also be recognized for her social justice and charitable work, although she has sometimes mixed the 2.
Since 2005 she has usually been a part of the superstar presenter line-up for Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day and was solely yesterday confirmed to be returning this yr.
As effectively as that, in 2021 she featured within the Stand Up To Cancer telethon, throughout which she gave an emotional tribute to her pal – Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding.
