Everything about Cat Deeley totally explained
Catherine Elizabeth "Cat" Deeley (born
23 October 1976) is an
English disc jockey,
television personality and former fashion model, who rose to fame at the age of 21, co-hosting the well-known children's series
SMTV Live, alongside
Anthony McPartlin and
Declan Donnelly, for also hosting
Stars in their Eyes since
2004, and for hosting
So You Think You Can Dance, since its second season in
2006.
Early life
The elder of two children, born in
Sutton Coldfield,
West Midlands,
England, Deeley attended Grove Vale Infant School in
Great Barr,
Birmingham, followed by
Dartmouth High School, where she played
clarinet in the
Sandwell Youth Concert Band. She continued her education at
Bishop Vesey's Grammar School's
Sixth Form. After achieving nine A grade
GCSEs and four
A-levels at school, Deeley became a full time
fashion model. She occasionally hung out with her brother Max, becoming a
tomboy. Prior to this, she entered a regional
BBC competition called
The Clothes Show, where she made it through to the finals. She was spotted by an agent, and Deeley signed with the Storm modelling agency, where
Kate Moss was also on the roster. She shortened her first name to Cat because there were several other Storm models named Catherine.
Television career
Her first television appearance was in 1994 as a model on the daytime show
Kilroy.
Deeley left
modelling after two years and became an
MTV UK presenter in
1997. She usually co-hosted with
Edith Bowman, with whom Deeley is friends.
From
1998 -
2002, she was co-host with
Ant & Dec on the Saturday morning children's show
SMTV Live and also hosted its spin-off shows (From
1998 -
2005) and
CD:UK Hotshots. In
2001, she won a Children's
BAFTA award for best presenter and appeared in an episode of the
BBC's
Happiness. In
2002, Deeley appeared in a television commercial for the British high street store
Marks and Spencer.
Other programmes she hosted include
The Record of the Year,
Fame Academy,
The 2004 BRIT Awards and
Stars in Their Eyes, as well as a weekly show on London's
Capital FM and
BBC Choice series
Roadtripping both with former MTV colleague
Edith Bowman. In
2003 she became patron of
Great Ormond Street Hospital, and in
2005 she played herself in an episode of
Little Britain and provided the voice of "Loretta Geargrinder" in the UK version of the film
Robots replacing
Natasha Lyonne
Since
2006, she began hosting the second season of
American reality show So You Think You Can Dance, replacing
Lauren Sanchez, who was pregnant at the time. Deeley interviewed
Kylie Minogue for a television special which aired in the United Kingdom on
Sky One on
16 July 2006, in Australia on
Channel Nine on
17 July 2006 and BBC America on
9 September 2006.
Deeley also had a stint as a guest reporter on
NBC's
Tonight Show around this time. She has presented
Fox's
New Year's Eve special live from
Times Square in 2006 and 2007.
She is also an entertainment contributor for
ABC News, providing coverage from various awards shows including the
Golden Globes and the
Grammy and
Academy Awards.
In 2007, she presented the British coverage of season 6 of
American Idol for
ITV2. She filmed segments and interviews with celebrity guests and eliminated contestants for UK audiences that were shown just before and after commercial breaks. However, this wasn't popular with viewers who saw Deeley's role as 'unnecessary'. She won't return with season 7 of
American Idol in 2008.
For a period, Deeley was the face of
Shape Water and a number of
Garnier Fructis products, appearing in print and television advertising in the
UK and
Ireland.
She is known to be a friend of the fashion designer
Matthew Williamson and frequently wears his clothes during red carpet events.
On
July 1,
2007, Deeley was one of many celebrity speakers appearing at the
Concert For Diana. The event, watched by an estimated 500 million viewers worldwide, was held at the new
Wembley Stadium.
In January 2008, a new series of
So You Think You Can Dance started its auditions, with Deeley again hosting.
She is to return to the UK to host a new dating show called The Big Match and to host the UK version of
So You Think You Can Dance.
Personal life
As a result of her ambition to break into
Hollywood, Deeley's long term relationship with PR Executive Mark Whelan broke down. Deeley then moved to Los Angeles in May
2006, as she stated on a late night TV interview with
Craig Ferguson.
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