Holly Willoughby

After more than 20 years in telly, Holly Willoughby looks poised to be introduced to a whole new audience as the host of Netflix’s latest reality offering.

Best known to those of us for her work on shows like Dancing On Ice and This Morning, Holly is the host of Celebrity Bear Hunt, a new survivalist series that sees a star-studded cast of contestants being put through their paces in the wilderness by Bear Grylls.

While Holly is already one of the UK’s most recognisable presenters, you might not realise she has a fair few less well-remembered shows to her name, too.

In that spirit, we’ve had a rummage through the TV vaults to bring you all the shows you’d probably forgotten she’d presented...

S Club TV

Holly landed her first TV gig at the age of 19 in 2000, when she was cast as one of the hosts of CITV show S Club TV.

The magazine series was an extension of the S Club universe, after the success of S Club 7.

Westworld fans might have also spotted that actor Ben Barnes – who played Logan in the HBO series – was one of Holly’s co-hosts.

This isn’t Holly’s only connection to S Club though, as in the same year she appeared in the band’s TV movie Artistic Differences as an old flame of singer Paul Cattermole.

X-Change

After cutting her teeth on S Club TV, Holly also began working on CBBC’s X-Change.

She was one of a host of presenters who hosted the daily magazine show in the early 2000s.

Holly actually spoke about her stint on the kids series on This Morning in 2018, when the ITV daytime show began broadcasting from Television Centre in the studio next door to where X-Change was recorded.

CBBC At The Fame Academy

During her time with CBBC, Holly was drafted in to front the kids channel’s coverage of BBC One talent show Fame Academy.

During the first two main series in 2002 and 2003 and the Comic Relief special in........

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