ITV This Morning star favourite to be new Davina McCall and host Big Brother 2023
15.08.2022 - 11:35
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READ MORE: Chloe Madeley welcomes first child with husband James Haskell as couple say they are 'besotted' Former Big Brother contestant turned TV host Alison Hammond is now the frontrunner to host ITV’s reboot of the classic reality TV show, reports The Mirror. Big Brother bosses are said to think she would be perfect to front the new series. The show was a ratings hit from its first series in 2000, won by Craig Phillips and presented by Davina, 54.
Later, BB2 winner Brian Dowling, 44, and then former model Emma Willis, 46, hosted the series. A source said: “Alison is top of the list to present next year’s Big Brother. Execs think she’s exactly what the show needs.
"She’s energetic, fun, relatable and she was on the show, so she knows it inside out. ”Big Brother ran from 2000 to 2018 on Channel 4, then switched to Channel 5. ITV2 will now take the reins.
Mum-of-one Alison, 47, was voted out after 15 days in season three, which also featured Kate Lawler, 42, and Jade Goody, who died of cancer aged 27 in 2009. When she was a guest on C4’s The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan, he asked if she would make a BB host and she said: “I think so. They need to change it up a bit.
We’ve got to put it out there to the universe. Let’s make it happen. ”But she faces stiff competition from Big Brother superfan Rylan Clark, 33, who has admitted he’d love the job.
Alison had made it clear she wanted to be considered for the presenter job. Rylan, who won series 11 of Celebrity Big Brother, said: “I live and breathe Big Brother, I’ve got a diary room in my house”. The star, who hosted Big Brother’s Bit on the Side for five years, said he is yet to be approached about presenting a Big Brother reboot.