Cat Deeley would ‘walk away’ from This Morning for one reason

Cat Deeley has revealed the 1 crushed she would ‘walk away’ from her hosting duties with ITV’s flagship meal amusement This Morning.

The tv presenter, 47, took implicit hosting duties from Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield past year, pursuing his ‘unwise’ matter with a younger co-worker and the surrounding furore.

Then, erstwhile Holly near successful October pursuing the quality of a planned kidnap attempt, Cat stepped successful to contiguous full-time, on with co-presenter Ben Shephard.

Since then, things person been comparatively creaseless for Cat and Ben, who mostly person been palmy successful helping get the TV instauration backmost connected an adjacent keel.

Opening up successful a caller interview, she weighed erstwhile questioned whether she felt ‘vulnerable’ successful the aftermath of Holly’s experiences connected – and disconnected – the show.

In doing so, celebrated Brummie Cat revealed what it would instrumentality for her to discontinue the show.

Speaking to Grazia, Cat said: ‘I don’t consciousness peculiarly vulnerable.’

She continued: ’I’d ever deliberation astir my ain intelligence health. If thing was affecting me, oregon I hated going into work, I’d locomotion away. It’s much important that I bask what I do.’

Cat went connected to speech astir the moving conditions connected the show, denying immoderate rumours of determination being a ‘toxic’ moving situation astatine This Morning.

‘Well, evidently Ben and I had heard each of those stories. I tin lone talk arsenic I find it, and I person nary thought what happened earlier we were there, but I haven’t seen 1 scrap of it,’ said Cat, who is joined to Irish comedian Patrick Kielty.

Last month, Cat spoke retired astir the accrued scrutiny she’s faced since taking connected UK television’s astir celebrated sofa job.

When asked whether she had been shocked by the abrupt scrutiny, Cat said: ‘Yes! Everyone keeps checking successful with me, “Are you OK? Are you handling this each right?”

She past continued: ‘I don’t care. I bash not care. If it gets excessively overmuch for maine I’m going to quit. I don’t request to bash it. I could halt and beryllium a mum for astir of the twelvemonth and past spell and bash the shows successful America. There is nary ulterior motive for maine doing this.’

Earlier this year, the Strictly presenter came nether occurrence aft inadvertently offending audiences with an ill-received gag astir her dancing.

As she grooved on to All About That Bass by Meghan Trainor, Cat described her dancing benignant arsenic ‘just having a seizure.’

The offhand remark sparked outrage from foundation The Epilepsy Society, who wrote connected X: ‘Seizures are nary laughing substance for radical with #epilepsy @catdeeley. Please bash amended and amended yourselves astir this hard and poorly understood condition, @thismorning.’

Following complaints made, Cat issued an apology connected a aboriginal occurrence of the amusement and said atrocious for her prime of language. ‘I ne'er intended to offend anyone,’ she added.

The erstwhile SMTV Live presenter said: ‘First of each I privation to apologise to anyone who was offended yesterday aft I made a light-hearted remark astir my dancing style.

‘It truly wasn’t expected to origin immoderate upset to anybody but I tin spot wherefore that mightiness person been the case, truthful I bash apologise and I’m precise sorry.’

This Morning airs weekdays from 10am connected ITV.

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