TV PRESENTER Davina McCall has revealed all three of her children have September birthdays because she did not want to miss hosting Big Brother.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, McCall admitted her two daughters and a son were all born in the same month because of her television commitments during the summer.
She told host Kirsty Young: "I love Big Brother so much and the idea of someone else presenting it was 'over my dead body' so I said to Matthew 'We are not trying for a baby until after December – so there we are, three birthdays in September."
McCall, who presented the Channel 4 show between 2000 and 2010, also spoke of how she found it difficult to relax as a parent because she didn't want to make the same mistakes as her own addict mother.
She said: "I was constantly just trying to be perfect, I was so uptight.”
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