Davina McCall has praised Jonathan Ross as an “ally of women” following he shared his salary details with her in a bid to avoid a gender pay hole.
The Tv presenter, 55, said her co-choose on The Masked Singer preferred to be transparent about how a lot he was finding paid to be on the exhibit when it introduced in 2020.
Speaking toThe Sun, McCall claimed: “When I [got] my occupation, he named me and explained, ‘This is what I’m remaining paid. I assume you and I should really get paid the same amount’.”
She clarified that there was not a important discrepancy concerning their salaries, introducing: “But he wished to make positive there wasn’t and I enjoy him for that.”
McCall also explained Ross as “the nicest male and an ally of women”.
The previous Huge Brother presenter is a choose on the singing competitiveness along with Ross, Rita Ora, and Mo Gilligan.
Elsewhere in the interview, she revealed that she is near to her fellow panelists and they bond more than photos of otters and text messages.
“Oh my God, I adore those fellas,” she stated. “I like Mo and mail him constant photos of otters. We love otters. Rita, I enjoy. I deliver her messages.”
McCall was honoured with an MBE last month for solutions to broadcasting, subsequent a Tv job that has spanned extra than two decades.
She was produced an MBE in King Charles III’s birthday honours, which she said was a “great honour” and “really implies a wonderful deal”.
Davina McCall attends the ITV Autumn Leisure Launch at White Town Property on August 30, 2022
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Her 2021 documentary Intercourse, Myths and The Menopause, which aired on Channel 4, was hailed by viewers for broaching the subject areas of menopause and hormone substitute remedy (HRT).
She not long ago explored the consequences of the contraceptive tablet in her new documentary Davina McCall’s Capsule Revolution. In the display, she had her coil equipped on-monitor to assist dispel misinformation all over contraception.
McCall is set to host a new ITV courting truth series titled My Mum, Your Dad, which will see a group of solitary mom and dad nominated by their grownup little ones to consider receiving an additional probability at acquiring love.
McCall has been in a romance with celebrity hairdresser Michael Doughlas considering that 2019. She shares 3 children, Holly, Tilly and Chester, with her previous husband Matthew Robertson.
She was married to Robertson from 2000 to 2017. Prior to that, she was married to Andrew Leggett from 1997 to 1999.