Currently hosting spin off Celebrity Big Brother 7 Davina has been an ever present face since the show began taking charge of all 10 summer series as well as celebrity specials.
Plummeting ratings led to Ch4 bosses’ decision to pull the plug on the show this summer.
But Davina believes there might yet still be some mileage in the show- and if another channel were to take up the rights to the format she’d consider going along for the ride.
Quizzed on This Morning whether she would continue her role as House mother superior and interrogator for another broadcaster if the opportunity arose she said: “I would follow the show, depending on how it would be produced and what they wanted to do with it."
She also revealed that the time was right for CH4 and the show to part ways.
“For Channel 4 there is no going back," she said. "But in a funny way, it is right for Channel 4 to draw a line under things. The show can go out on a real high.
"They have actually done me a favour, because I would have done the show until I was dead on my feet."
The show was first aired in the UK in 2000. It sees housemates isolated from the outside world in a purpose built home cum TV studio and forced to interact with each other while being filmed 24/7. During their stay they have to nominate which housemates they would like to see be evicted with the housemates with the highest number of nominations then put to a public vote to decide who should go..
Liverpudlian builder Craig Philips was the first BB winner. He subsequently went on to enjoy a successful TV career and the show is now viewed as a fast track to fame –however fleeting or Z list.
Other ordinary members of the public who have emerged from the show as ‘celebrities’ include Brian Dowling who went on to become a TV presenter; Jade Goody; Kate Lawler and Chantelle Houghton.
Essex girl Chantelle appeared as a ringer in the fourth series of Celebrity Big Brother and went on to win the show outright despite the fact she wasn’t a celebrity at all.
The show has proved controversial during its time with the most publicised criticism coming in the fifth Celebrity series when Jade Goody, singer Jo O’Meara and model Danielle Lloyd were accused of racially abusing Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty.
The row escalated into an international incident with the then Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown (now Prime Minister) who was visiting India at the time forced to answer questions about the furore that had sprung up over the incident. Shilpa emerged as the winner of the series.
