Davina McCall

My gosh, it feels surreal just to be here with you to do this chat with.

This just feels like it's epic, it's surreal, it's ethereal.

Like, oh, yeah, the stars have aligned to bring us together for this moment right now.

Like a huge deep love.

Yes.

So can you just talk me through where did you grow up?

So I grew up in a small little town in Missouri, middle America called Warrensburg, very much a farm town.

My dad delivered fuel to farmers and he was a fuel guy, delivering oil, driving trucks, was gone a lot.

My mom worked for him.

So we lived on a farm way out in the country in my sort of smaller years.

And it was idyllic in so many ways, because I loved trying to be just as tough as the boys and loved going mudding in trucks and doing all this sort of farm life that, gosh, in the UK, I don't even see these types of things going on.

So to think back, like, there's so much of it that's pretty brilliant of what I got to experience in those little farm years.

But it was also the making and the breaking of me, living in that wonderful little lovely area.

Grandmother lived just around the corner.

My grandmother was my everything, Grandma Jane.

Grandmas are the best, right?

They're the best, man.

She showed me a love and a selflessness that to this day, that's what has made me the mum that I strive to be every day when I wake up.

The bad was I had brilliant parents, I think, who tried their best.

But there was a lot of darkness in my very young years through my formative years to my young teen years.