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How Cat Deeley rediscovered her Brummie accent to win over viewers! ITV insiders tell KATIE HIND they feared the glamorous presenter would be too 'Hollywood' for This Morning, but she's swapped designer labels for £45 M&S dresses
Despite hailing from near Birmingham, rarely has her Brummie twang been heard over the three decades of her sparkling career.
Born in West Bromwich, she grew up in the Birmingham suburbs of Sutton Coldfield and Great Barr, where classrooms would have been full of school children pronouncing ‘funny’ as ‘funn-ay’ and ‘singer’ as ‘sin-ga’. ITV’s director of television Kevin Lygo was determined to sign her to replace Holly Willoughby on the famous sofa but because Cat spent 15 years in Los Angeles presenting one of America’s biggest shows, So You Think You Can Dance, there were reservations that she was ‘too Tinseltown’. She stayed on This Morning for seven months after Schofield’s departure but quit after she learned that she was the target of a kidnap, rape and murder plot by former security guard Gavin Plumb.
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