Davina McCall forced Twitter users on the warpath last year when she took to the social media site with a “save our BBC” plea.
Asking her 2.7million followers for help, she asked them to put their names to a petition urging Boris Johnson and his party to “stop the political attack on our BBC”.
She wrote: “I’ve just signed the petition calling on Boris Johnson to stop his war on our BBC. It’s a thinly veiled attempt to dodge accountability. Please sign and share today”.
Followers soon flocked angrily to the comments, where they shared their outrage.
One fumed: “It’s not ‘my’ BBC. It’s cr*p and employs over-paid, overrated egotistical left-wing wokes.”
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A second boiled: “Here we go! Celebrities making sure their big fat salaries are secure… p*** off McCall!”
And a third swooped in seething with: “I want celebrity culture dismantled along with the BBC. Privileged people like her speak only for white middle class liberals and ‘woke’ types that the BBC represent.”
Despite the backlash to her words, the 53-year-old co-presented Stand Up To Cancer on Channel 4 on Friday night.
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Viewers were promised a glitzy night of fun from a string of celeb guests, including Olivia Colman, The Jonas Brothers, Usain Bolt and Liam Gallagher.
The annual show was hosted by Davina, along with Alan Carr, Maya Jama and Adam Hills.
Stand Up To Cancer is a joint national fundraising campaign with Channel 4 and Cancer research at the helm.
It aims to raise much-needed funds to take on cancer, one of the UK’s biggest killers, and to date it has raised £84million and funded 59 clinical trials.
Much of Davina’s career has been spent on Channel 4, and she’s perhaps best known for her 10-year run as presenter of hit reality series Big Brother between 2000 and 2010.
But most recently, fans have enjoyed her time as a judge on ITV music contest series The Masked Singer and its spin-off The Masked Dancer.
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The Wimbledon-born star is no stranger to working on charity shows, and co-presented the BBC ’s Comic Relief telethons between 2005 and 2015.
Davina’s links with the UK’s national broadcaster could have been one of the key reasons for her controversial ‘save our BBC’ appeal last year.
Despite the outrage attracted by the plea, the petition now has over 300,000 signatures, and came about as the result of Government plans to cut BBC funding by hundreds of millions.
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