Holly Willoughby
Holly Willoughby was born in Brighton, England, United Kingdom on February 10th, 1981 and is the TV Show Host. At the age of 43, Holly Willoughby biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
At 43 years old, Holly Willoughby has this physical status:
Holly Marie Willoughby (born 10 February 1981) is an English television presenter, model and author.
She is currently the co-presenter of This Morning (2009–present) and Dancing on Ice (2006–2011, 2018–present) alongside Phillip Schofield. Since 2008, Willoughby has been a team captain on ITV2's Celebrity Juice alongside Fearne Cotton.
From 2012 to 2015, she presented the revived television series Surprise Surprise, replacing original presenter Cilla Black.
Other TV work includes BBC's The Voice UK (2012–2013), Play to the Whistle (2015–2017) and The Xtra Factor (2008–2009). In November 2018, Willoughby co-presented the eighteenth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! alongside Declan Donnelly.
Early life
Willoughby was born in Brighton, East Sussex, the younger of two daughters of Brian Willoughby, a sales manager of a double-glazing company, and Linda Willoughby (née Fleming), a former air stewardess. She was educated at the independent Burgess Hill Girls in the town of Burgess Hill in West Sussex, and The College of Richard Collyer in Horsham.
In 1995, at the age of 14, Willoughby was spotted by talent scouts at The Clothes Show Live exhibition and signed with the model agency, Storm Management. She appeared in teen magazines for girls such as Mizz, Just Seventeen, Shout, and More!. From 1998, at the age of 17, Willoughby started modelling bras, underwear and tights for clients including Pretty Polly, appearing in advertisements and posters.
Personal life
Willoughby is dyslexic. Her sister, Kelly, also works in the television industry.
On 4 August 2007, Willoughby married Dan Baldwin, co-founder of Hungry Bear Media and a former producer on Ministry of Mayhem and later executive producer on Celebrity Juice. They live in Barnes, London and have two sons and a daughter. Their first child was born on 11 May 2009, their second was born on 14 April 2011, and their third was born on 29 September 2014.
In 2008, Willoughby became a patron of the charity Together for Short Lives.
Career
Willoughby received an audition for a program on CITV that featured S Club 7 called S Club TV in 2000. In this series, actors portrayed an alternative S Club. She also appeared on S Club 7: Artistic Differences as a woman dressed as Zoe with the band's regular members. Willoughby spent time as a receptionist and then as a runner for the defunct shopping network Auction World TV.
Willoughby also began working menial jobs and started an Open University course in psychotherapy. She eventually became a assistant manager, although she persuaded a friend to make a showreel of her. This brought her an agent who then called the BBC. Willoughby introduced Xchange, a factual entertainment service for children, and then went on to host several other children's shows for CBBC: Xperimental and CBBC, which is CBBC's spin on the BBC talent show Fame Academy.
Willoughby's first appearance as a children's entertainer came when she returned to CITV in 2004 to co-present the entertainment show Ministry of Mayhem, which aired on Saturday mornings. Dan Baldwin, one of the show's designers, appeared on this program. In 2006, the show's name was changed to Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown in order to accurately reflect the show's co-presenters' popularity, Willoughby and Stephen Mulhern.
Willoughby introduced Feel the Fear, a children's entertainment service in which the hosts are faced with unnerving challenges. She has also appeared on other children's shows. Willoughby appeared on CD:UK for a brief period of time in 2005, replacing Cat Deeley before Myleene Klass, Lauren Laverne, and Johny Pitts became the regular hosts. Willoughby received the BAFTA Children's Award in 2006 in recognition of his work as a children's television host.
She was selected to co-present by Phillip Schofield of Dancing on Ice, in which celebrities are partnered with professional dancers to learn ice-dancing techniques that are reviewed by a panel of experts and then voted on by audiences. Willoughby served in the position until 2011 due to new commitments. Christine Lampard was her replacement.
Willoughby has appeared in a number of other television shows, including spin-off shows such as Celebrity Wrestling: Bring It On in 2005, Greased Lightnin' in 2007, and The Xtra Factor for two years in 2008.
During the change from Channel 4 to ITV2, she took over from Davina McCall as the host of Streetmate, a dating game show on television. The show was hosted by Willoughby for its final series. Willoughby and Fearne Cotton co-presented Holly & Fearne Go Dating in the same year. The two hosts of the show were attempting to find dates for single people that they encountered around the UK.
Willoughby has been on show as a team captain on Celebrity Juice since 2008, presenting series 1–11 and 13–23 (taking a break in series 12 due to maternity leave). In May 2020, she resigned from the show after 12 years.
Willoughby has co-presented ITV's This Morning with Phillip Schofield since September 2009, replacing Fern Britton. Willoughby and Schofield are the presenters on the programme from Monday to Thursday morning.
Willoughby co-presented charity text Santa with Ant & Dec in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2015.
Willoughby and Reggie Yates launched The Voice UK on March 24, 2012. After the second season of the show, she opted to leave the show and was replaced by Emma Willis in 2014.
Willoughby's revived Surprise Surprise in 2012 began in 2012. On September 15, 2013, a third appeared on October 22, 2014, and a fourth on June 21, 2015, when a second series premiered.
With her sister Kelly, Willoughby has written a series of children's books. School for Actors (London) is a children's book published in the United Kingdom. First Term at L'Etoile made it the UK's best-selling children's book of 2013.
Willoughby hosted Play to the Whistle on ITV in 2015. Starting on April 11, 2015, the first series aired for seven episodes. Beginning in April 2016, a second series debuted in six episodes, and a third series debuted in 2017.
Willoughby hosted Meet the Parents, a primetime Saturday night dating show on ITV. The performance has been likened to Blind Date.
Willoughby's salary increase was announced in August 2017 to match her co-host Phillip Schofield's salary. In January 2018, Schofield appeared on Dancing on Ice for the first time.
I'm a Celebrity will be hosted by Willoughby in August 2018. Get Me Out of Here! Declan Donnelly, his longtime companion, Anthony McPartlin, took a year off.
Willoughby is a brand ambassador for Marks & Spencer and Garnier, as well as a former ambassador for Diet Coke in the United Kingdom.
Willoughby founded Wylde Moon, a wellness and lifestyle brand and company in September 2021.
When filming for This Morning at the lying in state of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Hall on Saturday, Willoughby and Philip Schofield reacted angrily for not joining The Queue with the public. Government employees escorted them from the press gallery, according to ITV, who did not proceed beyond the Queen's coffin. This was compared to other celebrities' like David Beckham and Susanna Reid, who waited for several hours with members of the general public.