Holly Willoughby: Difference between revisions
===2006–2008===
===2006–2008===
[[File:Holly Willoughby.jpg|thumb|Willoughby at the premiere of ”[[Happy Feet]]” in 2006.]]
[[File:Holly Willoughby.jpg|thumb|Willoughby at the premiere of ”[[Happy Feet]]” in 2006]]
In 2006, she was chosen to co-present, with [[Phillip Schofield]], the television show ”[[Dancing on Ice]]”,[http://www.itv.com/Entertainment/reality/dancingonice/HollyWilloughby/default.html Holly Willoughby] ITV: Dancing on Ice in which celebrities are partnered with professional dancers to learn ice-dancing routines which are judged by a panel of experts and voted on by audiences. Willoughby remained in the role until 2011 due to new commitments. She was replaced by [[Christine Lampard]].[http://www.orange.co.uk/entertainment/television/3922.htm Good Golly, Miss Holly] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080827230010/http://www.orange.co.uk/entertainment/television/3922.htm |date=27 August 2008 }} Orange Entertainment News, 29 January 2008[http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s101/dancing-on-ice/news/a351698/christine-bleakley-replaces-holly-willoughby-as-dancing-on-ice-host.html Christine Bleakley replaces Holly Willoughby as ‘Dancing on Ice’ host]. ”Digital Spy” (18 November 2011). Retrieved 4 September 2012.
In 2006, she was chosen to co-present, with [[Phillip Schofield]], the television show ”[[Dancing on Ice]]”,[http://www.itv.com/Entertainment/reality/dancingonice/HollyWilloughby/default.html Holly Willoughby] ITV: Dancing on Ice in which celebrities are partnered with professional dancers to learn ice-dancing routines which are judged by a panel of experts and voted on by audiences. Willoughby remained in the role until 2011 due to new commitments. She was replaced by [[Christine Lampard]].[http://www.orange.co.uk/entertainment/television/3922.htm Good Golly, Miss Holly] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080827230010/http://www.orange.co.uk/entertainment/television/3922.htm |date=27 August 2008 }} Orange Entertainment News, 29 January 2008[http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s101/dancing-on-ice/news/a351698/christine-bleakley-replaces-holly-willoughby-as-dancing-on-ice-host.html Christine Bleakley replaces Holly Willoughby as ‘Dancing on Ice’ host]. ”Digital Spy” (18 November 2011). Retrieved 4 September 2012.
English television presenter, model and author
Holly Marie Willoughby ( WIL-ə-bee; born 10 February 1981)[1][2] is an English television presenter, author and model. She is currently the co-presenter of ITV‘s This Morning (2009–present) and Dancing on Ice (2006–2011, 2018–present) alongside Phillip Schofield.
From 2008 to 2020, Willoughby was a team captain on the ITV2 comedy panel show Celebrity Juice. Her other television work includes The Xtra Factor (2008–2009), Text Santa (2011–2013, 2015), The Voice UK (2012–2013), Surprise Surprise (2012–2015), Play to the Whistle (2015–2017), I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! (2018), Freeze the Fear with Wim Hof (2022), and The Games (2022).[3]
Early life
Willoughby was born in Brighton, East Sussex,[4] 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.[5] 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.[4]
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.[6] 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.
Career
2000–2005: Children’s presenting
In 2000, Willoughby won an audition for a show on CITV featuring S Club 7 called S Club TV.[7] In this show actors represented an alternative S Club.[8] She also appeared in a show called S Club 7: Artistic Differences playing a character called Zoe with the regular members of the band.[9] Willoughby worked as a receptionist for a while and then as a runner for the defunct shopping channel Auction World TV.
Willoughby also took on menial jobs and started an Open University course in psychotherapy. Then eventually, she found work as assistant manager during which time she persuaded a friend to make a showreel of her. This secured her an agent who then contacted the BBC.[7] Later in 2002, Willoughby presented a factual entertainment programme for children called Xchange and went on to host several other children’s shows for CBBC: X-perimental and CBBC at the Fame Academy (CBBC’s version of the BBC talent show Fame Academy).
Willoughby’s first role as a children’s entertainer came when she rejoined…