{"id":966162,"date":"2026-05-17T07:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/966162\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T07:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:33:14","slug":"davina-mccall-cant-quite-believe-outstanding-achievement-award-honour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/966162\/","title":{"rendered":"Davina McCall \u2018can\u2019t quite believe\u2019 outstanding achievement award honour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McCall has been a familiar face on TV since the late 1990s and early 2000s, hosting shows including Streetmate and Big Brother.<\/p>\n<p>In more recent years she has starred in primetime series including Long Lost Family, Million Pound Drop and The Masked Singer.<\/p>\n<p>She has also become an advocate for more public discourse around menopause and women\u2019s health, fronting documentaries such as Sex, Myths And The Menopause and Sex, Mind And The Menopause.<\/p>\n<p>The Edinburgh TV Awards said she is being recognised for her extraordinary contribution to British television and broadcasting.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYUEIXvDPWj\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\"background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>McCall will appear in conversation at the Edinburgh TV Festival on August 27, reflecting on her wide-ranging career as one of the UK\u2019s best-loved faces on TV.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cI can\u2019t quite believe that I\u2019ve been awarded such an honour for doing something I love so much.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been very lucky to have worked on many amazing shows and with many incredible people over my career, and have learnt so much along the way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be given the outstanding achievement award is huge and I can\u2019t wait to look back at the last 30 years in the session at Edinburgh this summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Previous winners of the award include Sir Lenny Henry, Claudia Winkleman, and Hugh Laurie.<\/p>\n<p>The Edinburgh TV Festival runs from August 25 to 28.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McCall has been a familiar face on TV since the late 1990s and early 2000s, hosting shows including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":966163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-966162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116588760743501319","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/966163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}