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in S Club TV – a show on CITV featuring pop group S Club 7 – her big breakthrough came in 2004 and Ministry of Mayhem, under the guidance of none other than KXVEDQG WR EH 'DQ Appearing alongside Stephen Mulhern, the audience warmed to the pair so much, that within two years it had been renamed Holly and Stephen’s Saturday Showdown. Later that year, 2006, she made KHU PDMRU EUHDNWKURXJK ZLWK D FR presenting slot on ITV’s Dancing on ,FH ,W VDZ KHU WHDP XS IRU WKH ÂżUVW WLPH ZLWK 3KLOOLS 6FKRÂżHOG WKH IRUPHU children’s TV presenter whose career FRQWLQXHV WR Ă€RXULVK By 2009, she replaced Fern Britton on This Morning, the TV show which gave birth to the husband and wife TV presenting team of Richard and Judy Madeley. The pair not only clicked on screen, but off it too, becoming good friends. “Phil is one of my best friends,â€? she says.
“He is inspiring on so many levels. “Professionally he’s a master of TV but also, on a personal level, the way he is with his wife and daughters is so beautiful. “They’re really funny, polite girls. I look at him and think, ‘Right, you’ve done all of that. I’d like to be like that too’.� Born in 1981 in Brighton, she was the youngest of two daughters to a VDOHV PDQDJHU RI D GRXEOH JOD]LQJ company and an air stewardess. After attending public school in Burgess Hill, West Sussex – where VKH KDG WR EDWWOH ZLWK G\VOH[LD VKH was spotted, at the age of 14 by a talent scout at The Clothes Show Live exhibition and signed up by a model agency. She had visited the show in Birmingham as part of a school trip, part of her textiles course. It would change her life. She remembers: “After watching the live catwalk shows and hankering after the latest fashions, I was D