CITV presenter hit by tragic loss of baby daughter on making her TV comeback – after being told she was on the ‘wrong side of 40’
At the age of 19, Danielle Nicholls shot to fame as the face of ITV’s youngsters’s tv channel CITV. Following a profession hole after turning into a ‘keep-at-house mum’ and the tragic loss of her 17-month-outdated daughter, she’s now having fun with a triumphant comeback.
Danielle is again on our screens after being brutally told final yr, at the age of 43, that she was on ‘the improper side of 40’ to be relaunching her profession. The singer and mannequin, from Swinton, was first found by producer Steve Ryde and she offered the day by day children channel, which launched the likes of the Teletubbies, alongside Stephen Mulhern from 1998 till 2001.
After three years at the channel she labored as a presenter on the Channel 5 movie star karaoke present, Night Fever. By 2012, Danielle had three youngsters with her husband, Dean Holden, who’s at present supervisor of Charlton Athletic and an ex-boss of Oldham Athletic.
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But, in that yr, the household had been hit by tragedy when their daughter, Cici, died after they arrived on vacation in Lanzarote. Cici had suffered meningococcal septicemia – a bacterial an infection which causes blood poisoning, resulting in sepsis.
She was rushed to a clinic on the island, the place a helicopter was ready to take her to the nearest intensive care unit. Within three hours, Cici had tragically handed away.
Two weeks after the devastating loss, Danielle says she did the ‘worst’ job interview. She recalled that after returning house to her household: “I looked at the other kids and said to Dean ‘I can’t go on telly pretending I’m happy.'”
After Cici’s dying, Danielle and Dean went on to have two extra youngsters – 9-yr-outdated Mitzi and 5-yr-outdated Chase, becoming a member of Joey and Ellis, now aged 16 and 14 respectively. Danielle educated as a breastfeeding advisor to assist different mums.
“For the next eight years I submerged myself,” she defined. “And then Covid hit. I was in a dark place,” she stated. She stated about the 2020 lockdown: “Dean and I had a conversation and had a bit a meltdown. He said ‘you’ve got to do what makes you happy’ and I said ‘I want Danielle back’ and we said ‘let’s do it.'”
By coincidence, final yr Danielle bumped right into a former CITV colleague in London when she joined Dean in the capital for an interview he had with talkSPORT. “It was serendipity,” she stated.
“Two weeks before that meeting I was told I was on the wrong side of 40. They said ‘darling you’re on the wrong side of 40 and you haven’t got a hope.’ But that spurred me on. Once I got over it and stopped crying it gave me a kick up the a**e.”
Danielle, now 44, was snapped up as a presenter on the TV channel TalkTV and now hosts the Saturday Night Talkaway present with Andre Walker. Danielle, who now lives in Worsley, stated: “People used to comment on my accent but nowadays it’s gone in my favour,” she stated.
“I remember meeting with an agent and they said ‘we’re not taking on any more northerners, we’ve already got one girl from Scotland.’ At 19 getting famous that quickly, it was intimidating. I do think being in TV has changed. It’s much nicer this time around.”
On Sunday (May 7) Danielle will probably be presenting the Manchester Remembers 2023 recreation at Oldham’s Boundary Park. The recreation is a particular charity match between footballing legends and celebrities to recollect the victims of the Manchester Arena assault.
All the cash raised from Manchester Remembers will go to 5 charities arrange in the aftermath of the 2017 assault. To e book tickets go to oldhamathletic.co.uk
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