Davina McCall on why you can still find love in your 40s ahead of new ITV show
Davina McCall reckons her dating show for “midlifers” is desperately needed to show people they can still find love after the age of 40.
The TV presenter, 55, who hosts new series Your Mum, My Dad on ITV, is determined to change people’s opinions about dating in middle-age.
And she insists that older singletons are far better at finding romance than 20-somethings on Tinder. Davina, who is in a relationship with hairdresser Michael Douglas, 48, says she is a prime example of women becoming more confident with age.
The star, who is also renowned for her work to raise awareness about menopause, said: “If you’re dating in your 50s, you know much better what your shortcomings are, and would have learned from mistakes you have made in previous relationships.
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Davina with partner Michael Douglas (David Fisher/REX/Shutterstock for NTA)“You will know the people who suit you, and the people who will bring out the worst in you.
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“There’s so many plusses to trying to find somebody in midlife because of your self-awareness.”
Davina went on: “When you start a romance in your 20s or 30s, it’s completely different. I remember everyone always asking me, ‘Have you got a boyfriend?’ Then it’s, ‘Is he The One?’ ‘Are you getting married?’ ‘Are you having children?’ It’s exhausting, and
the pressure to meet the person you’re going to spend the rest of your life with is immense.”
Your Mum, My Dad sees adult children nominate one of their parents to go on a romantic retreat to encourage them to enter the world of dating again. It has been billed as the grown-up version of Love Island – and Davina says it was touching to see the contestants’ children step in to boost their confidence if they suffered an attack of nerves.
The star, who split from Matthew Robertson – her husband of 17 years – in 2017, said: “When you are older, in some ways you can be more confident than when you were younger.
“But if you’ve had a difficult time or something has happened to you, you could have lots of baggage.
“The thing I love about this show is that these people are all nominated by their children, and are dropped off at the retreat by them. It’s like a role reversal – the kids are like the adults who say, ‘Don’t be an idiot, off you go!’ and the kids do support the parents quite a lot.
“I think representing midlifers on telly is important because we sometimes get falsely aged or we’re playing parts where we’re downtrodden or bedraggled.”
Asked about her own confidence, mum-of-three Davina said: “I’m definitely not chasing youth… my skin is baggy and my tummy, if I jump, is like jelly.
“But I think the glory about getting older is you don’t really care. There’s this whole thing of, ‘I look my age, I can’t do anything about that… it is what it is’. The important thing is that I feel good in myself.”
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