This Morning's Cat Deeley admits to being 'rubbish' TV presenter – 'But no one's watching anyway'
25.03.2024 - 07:33
/ ok.co.uk
Cat Deeley has admitted that she and Ant Dec were "rubbish presenters" during their SM:TV Live days.
The TV star recently returned to British screens as the permanent host of This Morning alongside Good Morning Britain star Ben Shephard, taking over from previous hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield. Ben was forced to tell Cat to 'listen and stop talking' during one recent segment.
Ant, Dec and Cat hosted the anarchic ITV kids show together between 1998 and 2002, but Cat recalled that despite their poor presenting skills, they were given the "amazing luxury" to learn from the show and develop their "amazing chemistry." Cat, now 47, wrote in The Big Issue's Letter To My Younger Self column: "People forget, when we started SM:TV we were rubbish. And nobody watched it at all." "It only stayed on air because Nigel Pickard, who was in charge of ITV kids' programmes at the time, said: 'We've got nothing else to fill the slot with.
I know they're rubbish now, but I think they've got something; let's just keep them on, no one's watching anyway.' "So we had this amazing luxury, where we were all learning together. And because we were surrounded by a brilliant crew it came together, there was a lovely chemistry between myself and Ant and Dec.
"Also, we all genuinely really liked each other." Cat – who's married to TV presenter Patrick Kielty – went gone on to forge a career across the pond, being nominated for multiple Primetime Emmys since for her hosting on So You Think You Can Dance. Reflecting on her move to the States, she said in her newspaper article: "I think the thing that would surprise the young me about her future is what's happened in America." "I mean, I never went to America when I was a kid.
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