Celebrity Gogglebox's Denise Van Outen 'lied' to get dream Big Breakfast job

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Gogglebox's Denise Van Outen has shared a startling revelation about her career and how she managed to rise through the ranks.She said that her blagging got her breakthrough Big Breakfast role as a weather girl when she fibbed that she had taken a metrological course.Denise, 47, said: "When it came to going for jobs, I hadn’t lost my creative streak when it came to asserting my suitability for a particular role."I wasn't shy about that, sometimes I'd even add things to my CV that I hadn't done."There were times back in the day when I thought, 'Right!

What's been shot in the last couple of years that I might feasibly have been in?'"She went on to say: "I remember going up for a part in a film once, and adding a Roman Polanski film to my CV, one that I was never in."Of course, with Google and the internet, you can’t get away with that sort of thing anymore, but back then I was pretty comfortable bolstering my credentials where necessary."In her new book A Bit Of Me, Denise told how she was up for a screen test to present the weather on The Big Breakfast - and fibbed again.She revealed: "What did I know about reading a weather report?

Didn't you have to have the right sort of meteorological knowledge for that?"What I did know was that this was a fantastic opportunity, Channel 4 was doing a big relaunch of the show, and that’s where I came in."As per, I went all out, fibbing about having taken a meteorological course and assuring them that I’d be able to write my own weather report, no one could ever accuse me of not being a trier!"However, bosses at Channel 4 knew that Denise was chancing her own but hired her, with the blonde beauty taking the job but refusing to wear a bikini.Denise added: "They told me they knew full.