Cat Deeley was dubbed a “breath of contemporary air” by This Morning viewers following her presenting debut on Monday.
The ITV star, who has hosted So You Think You Can Dance within the US since 2005, joined the This Morning workforce after the shock departure of presenting duo Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby earlier this yr.
Cat’s return to UK screens comes after she spent 15 years dwelling in Los Angeles in a £3.8 million home together with her husband Patrick Kielty and their two sons; Milo, six, and James, 4.
The former Fame Academy star moved again to the UK in 2020, placing down £4.9 million for a fixer-upper mission in Hampstead, London, and securing planning permission to remodel it right into a lavish mid-century type fashionable home.
Cat and Patrick’s choice to uproot their household’s lives in LA got here after a horrifying incident that put their household below menace.
Recalling the terrifying second, Cat advised You journal that her husband known as her from a Shake Shack restaurant after he hadn’t returned from playgroup with their son, Milo.
The TV presenter revealed that her son and her husband had been out for burgers after they have been compelled to lie behind the counter after a shooter scare. “As I used to be driving I started to see helicopters, information vans, firemen and Swat squads,” she revealed, admitting she hadn’t appreciated the enormity of the scenario on the time.
In an interview with Stella journal, the previous SMTV Live presenter mentioned: “They had been in a Shake Shack in Century City Mall and there was a shooter scare. Everyone was both advised to lie behind the counter or pushed into the loos. People have been screaming and crying. Then as they have been all hiding, the FBI turned up with weapons.”
© InstagramThe star continued: “Paddy saved Milo calm – he did not actually know what was occurring – and in the long run it simply turned out to be a suspect bundle however… Milo [was] three years old. Something like that has occurred to him. The gun legal guidelines in America are loopy.”
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Cat went on to confess that the expertise and risks with weapons within the nation did make her take into account shifting again to the UK.
“It’s one thing we’re interested by. It’s going to be a troublesome choice,” she mentioned on the time.
© Getty“We are primarily based there however Paddy primarily works right here so he goes forwards and backwards, however we are able to reserve that. Things change when you’ve gotten kids.”
