Denise Van Outen and Johnny Vaughan to present together again after 20 years
Presenting duo Johnny Vaughan and Denise Van Outen are set to team up again for the first time in 20 years.
The much loved presenters first worked together back in the 90s on The Big Breakfast and last appeared on screen as a pair on Passport to Paradise in 2004.
The Radio X DJ, 56, and West End star, 49, will reunite once more as they take over the reins of a popular daytime show.
Denise and Johnny will present Steph's Packed Lunch on Channel 4 on Tuesday, June 13.
Ahead of their appearance, Denise said: "We speak all the time and we keep saying we need to do something together and this just feels like the perfect time for us. I can’t wait, I’m so excited."
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Whilst Johnny joked: "We’ve had Blur, there are rumours flowing about the Gallagher Brothers and now, we can now confirm, it’s the big one, the 90s reunion you been waiting for … Johnny and Denise, and I can’t wait."
Denise and Johnny were favourites on Big Breakfast (Ken McKay/REX/Shutterstock)
The duo haven't presented together since 2004 (Ken McKay/REX/Shutterstock)Johnny and Denise's powerful chemistry was one of the main reasons so many tuned into The Big Breakfast.
But the iconic pairing almost didn't happen. Denise, then 23, had been brought on as a traffic and travel presenter but was covering for host Sharron Davies in September 1997 while Johnny stood in for Rick Adams.
Their two-week stint on the show was enough to convince bosses they had something special.
However the good times came to an abrupt end in February 1999 when Denise announced she was leaving to pursue an acting career in ITV sitcom Babes In The Wood.
Ratings plummeted and Big Breakfast was unsalvageable. Denise finally returned in September 2000 to join Johnny for the show's final four months.
But it would take almost two decades for Denise to reveal what went wrong.
"At that time we were like brother and sister. We were best friends, unbreakable..." she told ITV's Loose Women in 2017.
They will return together on Steph's Packed Lunch (PackedLunchC4/Twitter)"The whole relationship fell apart when we started to renegotiate our contracts because I always felt we worked together as a team and that’s how it should be. We created it together.
"Not just us but the rest of the team working on the show. I always had that mentality that it was about all of us. But Johnny and I know there are other influences involved, and agents and everything - but he was negotiating separately from me.
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"I found out and obviously confronted him and I realised then that our friendship had gone in two different directions and for me it was tarnished."
"Obviously I gave it a second go but a similar thing happened again. It's hard because I loved him so much and I still do," she continued.
"I could still be angry about it now, but I have seen him since and, whenever I see him, because I love him so much and he makes me laugh so much, more than anyone I've ever met, I just forget about it.
"We were really, really good friends, I just don't know if it would ever be the same again."
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