Cat Deeley Photo Collection
by Alice on Oct.29, 2010, under Entertainment, Gallery, Model, TV, updates
Catherine “Cat” Deeley (born 23 October 1976) is an English disc jockey, television presenter and former model. At 21, she co-hosted the children’s series SMTV Live, alongside Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly. She hosted Stars in their Eyes from 2004 until 2006, and from 2006 to the present day, Deeley is the host for “So You Think You Can Dance”.
At age 14, she entered a regional edition of a BBC competition for The Clothes Show, in which she reached the national finals. Spotted by an agent for Storm modeling agency, she was quickly signed as a model under her nickname of Cat to make it easier for clients to re-book her. She left full time modeling in 1997 following her contract with Storm changing, and became an MTV UK presenter, usually with Edith Bowman. From 1998 until 2002, she was host with Ant & Dec on the Saturday morning children’s programme SMTV Live and hosted its spin-off programmes CD:UK (1998–2005) and CD:UK Hotshots.
Cat won a Children’s BAFTA award and appeared in an episode of the BBC’s Happiness in 2001. In 2002, She appeared in a television advert for Marks and Spencer Other programmes she hosted include The Record of the Year, Fame Academy, The 2004 BRIT Awards and Stars in Their Eyes, as well as a weekly broadcast on London’s Capital FM and BBC Choice series Roadtripping both with former MTV colleague Edith Bowman.
Cat became patron of Great Ormond Street Hospital in 2003, and in 2005 Cat played herself in an episode of Little Britain and provided the voice of “Loretta Geargrinder” in the UK version of the film Robots, replacing Natasha Lyonne. In 2006, Cat began hosting the second season of American reality show So You Think You Can Dance, replacing Lauren Sánchez, who was pregnant. Deeley interviewed Kylie Minogue for a television special which was broadcast in the United Kingdom on Sky One on 16 July 2006, in Australia on Channel Nine on 17 July 2006 and BBC America on 9 September 2006. Cat was guest reporter on NBC’s Tonight Show. She has presented Fox’s New Year’s Eve special from Times Square in 2006 and 2007.
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