Davina McCall feared her career was over after 'Big Brother'.
Davina McCall didn't think she'd have any more success after 'Big Brother' ended
The TV icon was the host of the reality show for a decade between 2000 and 2010, and she admits she worried she wouldn't get any job offers as good as the popular programme, which has just been revived on ITV2 with new hosts.
She is quoted by The Mirror as saying: “Every other show I tried to do alongside Big Brother has been a bit of a turkey.
“I was like – without Big Brother, who am I?”
Davina - who has also presented 'The Jump', 'Million Pound Drop', 'Streetmate', and 'Long Lost Family' - landed her own chat show in 2006 on the BBC, but it failed to attract the masses.
The show was axed after just one series due to low ratings, with one episode attracting fewer than 2.3 million viewers.
The 56-year-old star is currently a judge on ITV's 'The Masked Singer' alongside Jonathan Ross, Rita Ora and Mo Gilligan, which returns to screens this weekend.
The panel has to decipher which celebrity is in costume by listening to their singing voice. Unfortunately for the ‘My Mum, Your Dad’ host, Davina has not made many correct guesses this series.
Speaking to the Daily Star newspaper, she said: “I looked through all the celebrity magazines to see who’s around at the moment … I did my homework, but I did not do well this series.”
Davina enjoys the show more if she does not work out who the star beneath the mask is, as the surprise of their reveal is more satisfying than a correct guess.
She explained: “If I’m honest, I like not knowing who it is.
“It’s more exciting when someone is unmasked and you have no idea who there are.
“I don’t like it when I know 100 per cent who it is. It actually takes the fun out of it for me.
“It’s much more enjoyable when you think, ‘Do you know what? I think it’s this person, but I am probably wrong.’
“I like to think what I lack in correct guesses I give in enthusiasm. That’s what I bring to the show.”
In the most recent series of the programme, Charlie Simpson as ‘Rhino’ was crowned the winner.
The new series of ‘The Masked Singer’ returns on 30 December at 7pm on ITV1, and will be available to stream on ITVX.
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