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Inside This Morning wrangling between Cat Deeley and ITV bosses: Star 'wants Rylan as her co-host' but is being offered Ben Shephard - as execs tell her she needs to quit her lucrative US jobs before signing


Cat Deeley, 48, who has been pursued by the channel's executives since Ms Willoughby quit last October, will not be allowed to take time off to film the next series of So You Think You Can Dance.

The star, who has been pursued by the channel's executives since Ms Willoughby quit last October, will not be allowed to take time off to film the next series of So You Think You Can Dance later this year so she faces a dilemma over her future. ITV want her to work with Ben Shephard (pictured), who they had initially hoped to team up with Ms Willoughby from last month before she quit after it emerged that there was an alleged plot to kidnap and murder her Waiting in the wings is former Channel 5 weather presenter Sian Welby who impressed the programme's editor Martin Frizell when she stood in two weeks ago alongside Dermot O'Leary.

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