Cat Deeley is being eyed as a visitor host for ‘Britain’s Got Talent’.
The new ‘This Morning’ presenter and ‘Dancing On Ice’ host Stephen Mulhern – who beforehand hosted companion present ‘Britain’s Got More Talent’ and spin-off programme ‘Britain’s Got Talent: The Ultimate Magician’ – are being eyed by producers to go on stand-by to cowl for Ant Mc Partlin on the dwell exhibits if his spouse Anne-Marie Corbett goes into labour.
The couple are as a consequence of welcome their first baby into the world in June, so ITV bosses are anxious Declan Donnelly may very well be left holding the fort alone if they do not draft up a contingency plan.
A supply advised The Sun on Sunday newspaper: “The timing is causing something of a headache for bosses.
“They are considering whether Dec would present alone if Anne-Marie went into labour or, if time allows, a guest presenter could step in.
“Cat and Stephen, who the lads have worked with in the past, are front-runners.”
Ant not too long ago defined he and Dec – who has Isla, 5, and 18-month-old Jack along with his spouse spouse Ali Astall – are eager to spend extra time with their households, which led to them “pausing” ‘Saturday Night Takeaway’ after 20 sequence.
He advised Fault Magazine: “We do the present after which ‘Britain’s Got Talent’, however on a extra private degree, a part of the rationale we’re pausing ‘Takeaway’ is we’d like a break ourselves, and we have to spend a while with our household. We’ve each bought youngsters that we have to spend time with for a little bit bit.
“We want time to assume and, and time to step again and take a look at the larger image and simply see the place we at the moment are. You know, like I say, ‘We’re turning 49, and what will we need to do subsequent? What’s the following section of our profession?’ And we’ve bought plenty of concepts and plenty of gives on the desk, plenty of choices of issues we are able to do.
“But it’s engaged on what we do subsequent and the place the following chapter begins. So that’s what we’re gonna do when ‘Saturday Night Takeaway’ is out of the way in which. We’ll sit down, take a little bit of time, and reevaluate all the pieces.”