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 presently courting her hairdresser Michael Douglas.
Miss McCall, 55, now needs to assist different older singletons to seek out love and mentioned the present can be filled with ‘attention-grabbing individuals’ 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 mentioned 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 may fill a villa in Love Island with middle-aged individuals with the most effective again tales you may have 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 means of horrific divorces. They’re individuals who have break up up with any person and determined they wish to attempt going out with any person the identical intercourse as them.
‘They’re like attention-grabbing individuals. I would watch that present.’
Miss McCall, who’s presently a decide on The Masked Singer, mentioned ITV is wanting into an identical present and that they ‘would possibly think about’ her to host.
She continued: ‘I used to be like ‘I have to current it please’. They mentioned ‘We’re one thing else that is fairly comparable, we’d think about you for that’.
‘Effectively if I hadn’t despatched them that e-mail within the first place, they would not have considered me for the opposite present possibly. ‘You have to make alternatives occur – they by no means simply come to you. Preserve 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 toddler and teenager, mentioned she feared her TV profession can be over after she left Huge 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 may see individuals 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 give the impression of being, are match and wholesome, into style 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 toddler and teenager, mentioned she feared her TV profession can be over after she left Huge Brother – the fact TV present she introduced for a decade.
She mentioned: ‘After Huge Brother completed I contacted a buddy of mine who was like a techy individual, and like after Huge Brother I believed ‘Who am I and the place am I going to go, and it may all finish’.
‘And as the person who was offering the roof and the meals on the desk I had to think about 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 wonderful for me.’
Winter Love Island, hosted by Maya Jama and set in South Africa, will return to ITV2 this month.