Cat Deeley says she dismissed SM:TV Live as a “wonkey donkey”. She admits thinking she was too cool to host the ITV kids’ programme with Ant and Dec.
But she was right to give the show a chance as it launched her career two decades ago and went on to become a cult hit. Mum-of-two Cat, 44, admits: ‘“I was doing MTV at the time and they wanted a girl. "I ended up going in to see them because one of the producers called me and said, ‘I have got this show’ and I was like, ‘I don’t know’. “I was so stupid, I thought I was too cool for that.
What a load of baloney! “I felt I didn’t want to do children’s telly. And he said, ‘Listen, just come and meet the lads’. So I went in, met them and it has been great.” SM:TV launched in 1998 and featured the
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