Cat Deeley is internet hosting This Morning for 3 days this week after the departure of Holly Willoughby.
The 47-year-old Emmy-nominated presenter, who has earlier expertise internet hosting programmes which have seen the departure of their predominant presenter, is sharing the ITV present’s couch with Rylan Clark on Monday and Tuesday.
Deeley will then be co-presenting with Craig Doyle on Wednesday.
Willoughby departed as the principle host of the daytime programme in October after 14 years within the function.
The 42-year-old presenter and Deeley, each former fashions, rose to fame on kids’s TV together with presenting music programme CD:UK on ITV.
Deeley introduced ITV’s Stars In Their Eyes and the BBC’s Fame Academy earlier than internet hosting American competitors present So You Think You Can Dance for greater than a decade, whereas Willoughby started internet hosting Dancing On Ice in 2006.
It is unclear whether or not Deeley will seem as a This Morning host sooner or later. Her momentary stint comes as presenter Josie Gibson is rumoured to be getting into I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!
At the weekend, Deeley instructed Clark’s BBC Radio 2 present: “Can you believe it? They’ve let us loose.
“I mean, who in their right mind… I don’t know who’s in charge, clearly no one.”
Clark, who has beforehand introduced This Morning, joked that he and Deeley could possibly be “the two that put that final nail in the coffin” of the long-running morning programme, which has had a turbulent 12 months.
Deeley stated: “I like to think it’s care in the community or something like, they’re just looking after us… like they’re teetering on the brink of like going downhill from here (so they thought) ‘let’s just get them on’.”
Clark additionally joked that they are going to be taking part in Wonkey Donkey, a contest from ITV kids’s programme SMTV Live, which was introduced by Deeley with Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly.
Deeley – who’s married to Patrick Kielty, at present a number of Irish chat present The Late Late Show – has sat in for Clark on Radio 2.
She has additionally introduced different reveals on the station, together with a stint earlier than Claudia Winkleman took over from Graham Norton.
This Morning hit the headlines in May when Willoughby’s former co-host Phillip Schofield left the present after admitting to an “unwise but not illegal” relationship with a younger male colleague.
ITV stated it was “not provided with, and did not find, any evidence of a relationship beyond hearsay and rumour” when it seemed into the matter in 2020, and chief government Dame Carolyn McCall stated there will likely be an exterior assessment.
The daytime programme has confronted elevated scrutiny as staff previous and current raised “claims of toxic working cultures, bullying, discrimination and harassment” with MPs.
Dame Carolyn instructed the Culture, Media and Sport Committee in August: “We are absolutely committed to enabling people to raise any issues or complaints they may have about working at ITV.”
The broadcaster up to date its coverage on work relationships in October.
