Viewers are accustomed to the social media savvy and bikini-clad children who normally seem on the fact TV present Love Island.
However Davina McCall has revealed she is ‘begging’ ITV bosses to rent her to host a ‘midlife’ model of the programme.
The presenter and health guru was 50 when she break up from her husband Matthew Roberston in 2017. She is at present relationship her hairdresser Michael Douglas.
Miss McCall, 55, now desires to assist different older singletons to search out love and stated the present could be filled with ‘attention-grabbing folks’ who’ve ‘lived a life’.
Davina McCall has revealed she is ‘begging’ ITV bosses to rent her to host a ‘midlife’ model of the hit actuality tv present Love Island
Viewers are accustomed to the social media savvy and bikini-clad children who normally seem on the fact TV present Love Island
Talking on the Diary of a CEO podcast, she stated she has ‘no embarrassment or disgrace about emailing a TV firm or the top of a TV firm and going ‘have you considered this?’ as she revealed she is ‘actually begging ITV to let me current midlife Love Island’.
‘I might fill a villa in Love Island with middle-aged folks with the perfect again tales you have got ever heard in your life,’ she instructed host Stephen Bartlett.
‘They’ve lived a life – they’re widows, they’re individuals who have been by way of horrific divorces. They’re individuals who have break up up with someone and determined they need to attempt going out with someone the identical intercourse as them.
‘They’re like attention-grabbing folks. I would watch that present.’
Miss McCall, who’s at present a choose on The Masked Singer, stated ITV is wanting into an identical present and that they ‘may contemplate’ her to host.
She continued: ‘I used to be like ‘I have to current it please’. They stated ‘We’re one thing else that is fairly related, we’d contemplate you for that’.
‘Nicely if I hadn’t despatched them that e-mail within the first place, they would not have considered me for the opposite present perhaps. ‘You have to make alternatives occur – they by no means simply come to you. Hold strolling.’
Miss McCall, who additionally opened up throughout the interview about her previous drug abuse, together with taking heroin and cocaine along with her mom as a baby and teenager, stated she feared her TV profession could be over after she left Large Brother – the fact TV present she introduced for a decade
Winter Love Island, hosted by Maya Jama (pictured) and set in South Africa, will return to ITV2 this month
Her feedback come months after it was reported that ITV was engaged on a pilot for a Love Island-style present that might see folks of their 40s and 50s being coupled up behind the scenes by their kids whereas on a retreat.
A supply on the time instructed The Solar: ‘Instances change and the present technology of their 40s and 50s nonetheless care about how they appear, are match and wholesome, into vogue and are able to let their hair down.
‘This present will give those that settled down younger a second probability at love whereas they nonetheless really feel of their prime.’
Miss McCall, who additionally opened up throughout the interview about her previous drug abuse, together with taking heroin and cocaine along with her mom as a baby and teenager, stated she feared her TV profession could be over after she left Large Brother – the fact TV present she introduced for a decade.
She stated: ‘After Large Brother completed I contacted a pal of mine who was like a techy individual, and like after Large Brother I believed ‘Who am I and the place am I going to go, and it might all finish’.
‘And as the person who was offering the roof and the meals on the desk I had to consider my subsequent step – ‘what was I going to do, I am unsure how lengthy tv’s going to final’. It is nonetheless going – which is superb for me.’
Winter Love Island, hosted by Maya Jama and set in South Africa, will return to ITV2 this month.
