Cat Deeley, best known for being Ant and Dec’s sidekick, has been announced as the new co-host of This Morning, replacing Holly Willoughby. She will be hosting alongside Ben Shephard.
As soon as Holly Willoughby announced last October that she was quitting This Morning , the guessing game about her replacement became as fervent as speculation over the next James Bond.
Today was their first day in the job. And although both are old hands at live TV, things didn’t start well when Cat missed her cue and we caught the tail end of her private conversation with Ben. Maybe, by this time next week, Cat will have purchased an air fryer after committing This Morning blasphemy by admitting that she doesn’t own one. Doesn’t she know that’s like Question Time host Fiona Bruce saying she doesn’t pay much attention to politics?The opening credits of This Morning welcomed Ben and Cat into the fold
Cat and Ben’s first show kicked off with an overly long and rather dull chat about the manipulated royal photo, followed by a competition to win a holiday home.Not yet, but that was because everyone was on the edge of their seat waiting for the much-trailed ‘my bum-lift nightmare’ segment. Ben and Cat listen intently to guest Bonnie-Louise Cooper who had a Brazilian butt lift - but ended up in hospital with sepsisThroughout the two-and-a-half-hour show, Ben did the majority of the talking while Cat nodded, smiled and made a lot of encouraging ‘uh huh’ noises.
Mostly, she was friendly and professional. During touchy-feely segments her sympathetic head tilt was on point, but she kept her emotions in check – never looking glassy-eyed and on the verge of tears at any moment as her predecessor was prone to.
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