Davina McCall is to host 'Love Island' "for the middle aged".
Davina McCall is in line to host The Romance Retreat
The former 'Big Brother' presenter is ITV's number one choice to front 'The Romance Retreat' - in which single parents will live in a villa together in a bid to find love with a housemate - and is said to be on the verge to agreeing the deal.
A source told The Mail on Sunday newspaper: "Davina is the perfect fit, she is a bubbly, fun and has also endured her own relationship problems. Until she met her boyfriend she was a single mother too."
The 'Masked Singer’ judge - who split from her ex Matthew Robertson, 54, in 2017 with whom she has Holly, 21, Tilly, 19, and Chester, 16, but has since found love with her new man Michael Douglas, 48 - admitted a few weeks ago she was "begging" to present such a show and insisted it would make for fascinating viewing.
She said: " I've got no embarrassment or shame in emailing a TV company and going, 'Have you thought about this? What about this? Can I do this?'
"I'm literally begging ITV to let me present mid-life 'Love Island'.
"I could fill a villa in Love Island with middle-aged people with the best backstories you have ever heard in your life.
"They've lived a life – they're widows, they're people who have been through horrific divorces. They are people who have split up with somebody and decided they want to try going out with somebody the same sex as them. They're like interesting people. I'd watch that show."
Shortly afterwards, a casting call went out for ITV's next dating show.
The description read: "ITV1 are looking for vibrant single parents from across the UK who are in search of love, for a brand new dating show!
"This is the ONLY dating show where single parents can search for love, by spending time in a luxury retreat, where all the parents have been nominated by their grown up children. (sic)"
The call out seems to give people a snapshot at the sprawling luxury villa they are hoping to host the fun in.
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