Davina McCall has fronted some of the UK’s biggest TV shows throughout her decades long career and won over millions of Brits with her bubbly and loveable personality.
Davina, 54, launched her career back in 1998 when she presented Don’t Try This At Home and went on to host a multitude of telly hits, including The Million Pound Drop, Long Lost Family and The Biggest Loser.
She is currently sat on the judging panel for ITV’s The Masked Singer.
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But the mum-of-three is perhaps best known for her role hosting reality TV smash hit Big Brother. The star was at the helm of the show for ten years from 2000-2010, and met fellow host Brian Dowling along the way.
The pair wound up in one of TV’s most epic feuds, with Davina also battling a feud with Geordie Shore star Charlotte Crosby.
But how did such a likeable star make so many enemies? Daily Star has taken a closer look.
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Irish Big Brother host Brian Dowling has previously accused Davina of “fanning the flames” of tension between him and the show they both fronted.
The former housemate hit out at remarks she made and accused her of damaging his “mental health” in 2020, after he didn’t appear in Best Shows Ever.
In 2020, Davina responded to Brian missing the Best Shows Ever special by saying: “Just an FYI we did ask @Brianofficial to be part of the show. He was ultimate housemate!!!! it was a no brainer.”
Brian took major umbrage with the comment, asking for the motivation behind Davina’s tweet, saying: “‘Why did you feel that it was appropriate to post that?
“Even if you were being asked then surely you would be well aware that it would make me look bad and incite bad comments about me, when you had no idea why I might have declined to take part?”
He added: “Did I turn you down personally? No.
“Did you or anyone else ask me why I might have turned it down? No.”
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Brian reignited the feud in January this year, saying that she has yet to apologise for their rift and hasn’t received an apology from the star.
“I’ve not got an apology for stuff that was said.”
“I know what happened to me during my time on that show – Davina McCall doesn’t because she wasn’t on the show.
“She resigned and left the show on Channel 4, and she passed me her microphone.
“I was uncomfortable with Davina’s truth because they weren’t Davina’s truths to tell.”
He claimed that they were “his truths to tell” and involved how he felt about being fired from Channel 5.
“Davina worked on a show on Channel 4. Davina and I had a good relationship up until the summer of last year, but things were said publicly that weren’t true and weren’t fair,” he added.
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Geordie Shore star Charlotte Crosby blasted the mum-of-three back in 2015 after the pair became embattled over their rival fitness DVDs.
Davina is known for her successful collection of workout DVDs that she has released over the years, but it seems the Geordie Shore lass offered up some uncomfortable competition.
Charlotte scored the biggest selling fitness DVD ever after it sold 101,000 copies in a month.
According to Charlotte, who was appearing on Celebrity Juice for Keith Lemon’s 32nd birthday special dressed as Cheryl Fernandez-Versini, Davina “hates me guts.”
When asked about the beef by Keith Lemon, Charlotte said: “She hates me guts.
“I was bigger and Davina was never big.”
Team captain Holly Willoughby did point out that Davina had had children and therefore would have lost the weight when she was bigger.
Charlotte said her fitness DVD, 3-minute Belly Blitz, outsold Disney’s Frozen and has been very popular with Geordie Shore fans. Davina never responded to the claims but don’t appeared to have mended their rival rift.
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