Cat Deeley was dubbed a “breath of fresh air” by This Morning viewers following her presenting debut on Monday.
The ITV star, who has hosted So You Think You Can Dance in the US since 2005, joined the This Morning team after the shock departure of presenting duo Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby earlier this year.
Cat’s return to UK screens comes after she spent 15 years living in Los Angeles in a £3.8 million home with her husband Patrick Kielty and their two sons; Milo, six, and James, four.
The former Fame Academy star moved back to the UK in 2020, putting down £4.9 million for a fixer-upper project in Hampstead, London, and securing planning permission to transform it into a lavish mid-century style modern home.
Cat and Patrick’s decision to uproot their family’s lives in LA came after a horrifying incident that put their family under threat.
Recalling the terrifying moment, Cat told You magazine that her husband called her from a Shake Shack restaurant after he hadn’t returned from playgroup with their son, Milo.
The TV presenter revealed that her son and her husband had been out for burgers when they were forced to lie behind the counter after a shooter scare. “As I was driving I began to see helicopters, news vans, firemen and Swat squads,” she revealed, admitting she hadn’t appreciated the enormity of the situation at the time.
In an interview with Stella magazine, the former SMTV Live presenter said: “They had been in a Shake Shack in Century City Mall and there was a shooter scare. Everyone was either told to lie behind the counter or pushed into the loos. People were screaming and crying. Then as they were all hiding, the FBI turned up with guns.”
The star continued: “Paddy kept Milo calm – he didn’t really know what was going on – and in the end it just turned out to be a suspect package but… Milo [was] three years old. Something like that has happened to him. The gun laws in America are crazy.”
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“It’s something we are thinking about. It’s going to be a tough decision,” she said at the time.
“We are based there but Paddy mainly works here so he goes back and forth, but we can reserve that. Things change when you have children.”
source: hello magazine . com
