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Privacy NoticeTV presenter Davina McCall, who won a special recognition award at the National Television Awards last week, is considering turning her hit series My Mum, Your Dad into a business empire. The 56-year-old star of the ITV dating show for over-50s, which began airing on Monday night, is planning to launch My Mum, Your Dad-themed retreats for those seeking love. Davina said: “We should actually do My Mum, Your Dad retreats as a commercial venture.” Despite being happily coupled up, she confessed she’d be tempted to join in herself if she were single: “I would have a go if I wasn’t in a relationship.” The show, which airs on ITV, offers a deep dive into personal growth as participants work through their emotional baggage, something Davina praised in an interview with The Sun: “It’s such a great place where you go and you learn. You come with a lot of baggage and they do so much work on themselves.” The programme features mature parents, nudged by their grown-up children, exploring new romances in a picturesque rural setting, that now boasts an ‘Intimacy Den’ for more private encounters.
Davina won a special recognition award at the NTAs this month
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Davina with the cast of My Mum, Your Dad
Sign up to OK!’s TV newsletter to get updates sent to your inbox for free Speaking to the Daily Mail, Davina opened up about how the show’s theme of finding love later in life resonates with her own experiences, especially considering her relationship with 50-year-old partner and celebrity hairstylist Michael Douglas, reports the Mirror. Getting personal, she confided: “I said [to him], ‘You know, it’s amazing we got together at this stage of life because I don’t know if I would be with anybody if we hadn’t got together.” She said: “I think women are much happier to be alone later in life but it’s quite sad. Sometimes for women who get divorced, they don’t get invited to dinners, or they get overlooked as they are not in a couple any more. They are a single woman and that just magnifies your loneliness. I think for famous women it’s quite hard. You can’t do the apps, so how do you meet people? I didn’t have to do that because I knew Michael I had known him for 20 years. I probably would be off to join a dance class. God knows what I would be doing.” The presenter, who is also known for hosting shows including Big Brother and Comic Relief, and for recently producing acclaimed documentaries about the menopause, has been married twice and has three children from her second marriage to Matthew Robertson. She and current partner Michael have been together for seven years.Story SavedYou can find this story in My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.Follow OK! MagazineFacebookTwitterCommentMore OnDavina McCallMy Mum, Your Dad
