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Tabloid journalists have hacked her phone in search of her dark side, but the hardworking,relentlessly upbeat Cat Deeley is just a girl-next-door goofball

Cat Deeley is on all fours, crawling slowly across the carpet of her Savoy suite. “You’d sneak up like this,” she says, “staying really low to the floor, and then . . . ” She pauses and then lunges forward, wrapping her hands around an imaginary frog. “When I was young we used to catch little tiny baby ones, they were quick and jumpy. I still don’t mind them now. I’m not scared of much, not even snakes, or spiders. You know what I don’t like, though? Milk!” She sticks her tongue out and grimaces. “It’s the way it stays on the side of a glass, it gives me the heebie-jeebies.”

Cat Deeley at the Savoy in London. Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian

At the age of 14, Deeley entered a regional edition of a competition for , in which she reached the national finals. She was signed as a model under her nickname of “Cat” to make it easier for clients to re-book her. She left full-time in 1997, following changes in her contract with Storm. Deeley moved on to co-present the chart show, , with close friend . From 1998 until 2002, Deeley was co-host of the Saturday morning children’s programme , and hosted its spin-off programmes (1998–2005) and . On , she often acted as an apparently slightly unwilling assistant whenever the show featured a guest appearance by a magician, participating in a number of different illusions, including being sawn in half in a version of the illusion called .

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