43 years old (Born on February 10, 1981)
TV presenter, model; She is famous from Presenting Dancing on Ice.
When she was 17, she was voted "Most Fanciable Female" at her school. (TV.com) Holly`s father is called Brian and is a manager of a double glazing company, while her mother`s name is Lyn and was an air stewardess. She has a younger sister called Kelly, who works in music management. (TV.com) In 2006 Holly won the BAFTA for Children`s TV Presenter. (TV.com) t college, she gained a reputation for turning up dressed in outrageous costumes. She once turned up dressed as a Playboy Bunny, another time as a cavegirl, and dressed in corset and suspenders for the college`s 1997 Rag Week "Kinky Day". (TV.com) On 14 November 2006, she interviewed magician Criss Angel for ITV morning show This Morning. At the end of the interview, she assisted Angel with a brand-new version of Sawing a Woman in Half, specially created for Angel by noted illusion designer Franz Harary. In this illusion, Angel strapped a bikini-clad Holly to a long table and covered her with a box with translucent glass sides, through which she could be seen in silhouette. The box was then sawed in half lengthways by a five-foot circular saw, before the box sides were opened to show the saw completely through Holly from above the top of her head to between her legs. (TV.com)Holly Willoughby's Best Moments
Fun Facts About Holly Willoughby
Holly is married to Dan Baldwin, who produced Ministry of Mayhem, and they live in South London. (TV.com)
Her favorite designer is Diane von Furstenberg. (TV.com)
Her first adult role away from children`s TV was Celebrity Wrestling, with Jack Osbourne. (TV.com)
Holly`s best friend is TV presenter Fearne Cotton. (TV.com)
Announced in November 2008, that she and her husband Dan Baldwin were expecting their first child together. Their son, Harry James Baldwin, was born on May 11th, 2009. (TV.com)
Holly appeared in commercials for Always sanitary towels when she was a teenager. (TV.com)
She`s a big football fan, and supports Arsenal FC. (TV.com)
When she appeared on the 29 September 2007 episode of Ant & Dec`s Saturday Showdown, she took part in the world premiere of a new version of Sawing a Woman in Half. In the illusion, Holly and her best friend Fearne Cotton, wearing different-coloured costumes, were both sawed in half by magician (and Holly`s friend) Stephen Mulhern while locked inside clear-sided boxes that were never covered at all during the illusion. Having sawed both Holly and Fearne in half and seperated their halves, Stephen then reassembled them with their bottom halves switched. When they got out of the sawing boxes at the end of the illusion, Holly was wearing the bottom half of Fearne`s costume, and Fearne the bottom half of Holly`s. This was the first time that such a "double sawing" had ever been performed using clear-sided boxes. (TV.com)
Holly said if she wasn`t a TV presenter then she would have been a psychotherapist. (TV.com)
When she was 16, she became the first girl at her school to have her belly button pierced. (TV.com)
Holly came 30th on FHM`s 100 Sexist Women in the World poll in 2006. (TV.com)
She experienced an embarrassing incident during the final episode of Ministry of Mayhem when, while taking part in one of Stephen Mulhern`s illusions, she accidentally exposed one of her br**sts. The incident happened when Stephen, dressed as a comical executioner, grabbed Holly to strap her into a guillotine to "have her head chopped off". Because Holly, dressed as a sexy schoolgirl, had her hands cuffed behind her back, she was unable to cover up when her br**st "popped out" (as she later described it), and CITV received a number of complaints about the incident. (TV.com)
In 2006 Holly announced her engagement live on air on Saturday Showdown. (TV.com)
Her first car was a battered VW Golf, that she used to drive to college with the theme to Wonder Woman playing at full volume on the stereo. (TV.com)
Holly and Dan got married in August 2007 at Amberley Castle in West Sussex. Many of Holly`s show-business friends attended the wedding and reception. TV presenter Dermot O`Leary was an usher at the wedding, while Fearne Cotton and Sarah Cawood were two of Holly`s bridesmaids. At the reception, Holly`s co-presenter Stephen Mulhern entertained the guests with a number of illusions including the sawing in half of Holly`s chief bridesmaid, her sister Kelly. (TV.com)
In January 2008, ITV received a small number of complaints about the low cut style of the dresses Holly wore to present Dancing on Ice. (TV.com)
On March 14, 2005, she took part in the launch of a set of magic-themed stamps for the Royal Mail. At the press launch, held at the Magic Circle headquarters, she was levitated by her Ministry of Mayhem co-presenter Stephen Mulhern while holding a large version of one of the stamps. (TV.com)
In both 2007 and 2008, she presented sections of the National Television Awards. (TV.com)
When Holly took over co-presenting This Morning in September 2009, her introduction on the show played on the rumours that Myleene Klass, Melanie Sykes and Kate Garraway had all been considered for the role. Holly`s friend, magician Stephen Mulhern, asked presenter Philip Schofield to choose from life-sized posters of Holly, Myleene, Melanie and Kate. When Philip chose the poster of Holly, Stephen attached it to the front of a tall and obviously empty clear-sided cabinet, and Holly then burst through it. (TV.com)
At the start of her modeling career, she appeared in teen magazines such as Mizz, Just Seventeen and More! (TV.com)
In March 2008, she helped to promote the Be Water Wise campaign, aimed at encouraging the UK to save more water, by stripping off and taking a three-minute nude shower in a glass-sided cubicle set up in front of the fountains in Trafalgar Square. (TV.com)
In November 2006, Holly turned on Brighton`s first Christmas lights for 25 years. (TV.com)
She was educated at Burgess Hill School For Girls, near Brighton. When she was 16, she attended The College of Richard Collyer, also near Brighton. (TV.com)
In August 2008, Holly and best friend Fearne Cotton began a series of TV adverts promoting the Imagine game series for the Nintendo DS games console. (TV.com)
She has both ears pierced twice, and her favorite earrings are large hoops. (TV.com)
Her nickname at school was `flat-chested Willoughby`. (TV.com)
At the 2007 Royal Variety Performance in London, she assisted magician and illusion designer Franz Harary with a performance of a modified version of the Harary-designed Criss Angel lengthways sawing in half she`d taken part in on This Morning. In this modified version of the illusion, Holly, wearing a silver miniskirt and belly-baring top, was placed in a vertical box with translucent front and rear panels, and from which her hands and lower legs projected at either end all through the illusion. Before the box front was closed, a bright light was switched on behind the box, so that when the front was closed, Holly could still be seen in silhouette within the box. A circular saw was then used to divide the box vertically, passing right through Holly`s silhouette from between her legs to above her head. Two large steel divider plates were then inserted through the saw cut, and the box halves pulled apart. With the box halves separated, the front, side and rear panels were opened to show Holly within, cut in two lengthways with the divider plates passing right through her. The box halves were then pushed back together, the front, side and rear panels closed and the dividers removed. The front panels were then opened once more to show Holly back in one piece and apparently none the worse for just having been sawed in half. (TV.com)
On `Ministry of Mayhem`, she often acted as the assistant in co-presenter Stephen Mulhern`s magical illusions. During their time together on the show, Stephen sawed Holly in half, cut her head off in a guillotine, made her vanish, and performed many other tricks on her.
Holly`s big break came when she was spotted on a school trip to the Clothes Show Live exhibition when she was 14. (TV.com)
She is good friends with magician Stephen Mulhern, who is her co-presenter for the CITV Saturday show Ministry of Mayhem (later Holly and Stephen`s Saturday Showdown). She often acts as Stephen`s special guest assistant for his various illusions. Although she`s taken part in a number of different illusions, the most common illusion that she has performed with Stephen, and the one that she`s said is her favourite, is being sawed in half. (TV.com)
Since early 2008, Holly has had an exclusive "golden handcuffs" deal with ITV, said to be worth around u00a35 Million. (TV.com)
In July 2009, Holly and Fearne Cotton began appearing in a series of TV adverts for online retailer Very.co.uk. (TV.com)