TESS DALY
Down to earth Stockport lass Tess started her career as a model, before getting her break as a television presenter on Channel 4’s The Big Breakfast, hosting their “Find Me A Model” segment and then took over as presenter of children’s Saturday morning show SM:tv after Ant & Dec left.
In 2003, Tess married television presenter and DJ, Vernon Kay, and in early 2004, Tess co-hosted the first series of Strictly Come Dancing alongside Bruce Forsyth. She had to miss the first half of the second series of Strictly, as she was on maternity leave with series one winner Natasha Kaplinksy holding the fort, but not long after daughter Phoebe was born, Tess returned to the programme, and has co-hosted the programme ever since.
After the success of Strictly, Tess and husband Vernon teamed up to co-host another celebrity reality show, Just The Two Of Us, a singing version of Strictly where celebrities teamed up with pop stars to learn to sing, and in 2008, another prime-time presenting role came her way in the form of the National Lottery game show This Time Tomorrow.