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Davina McCall reveals why she’s envious of Holly Willoughby

To be fair, we're envious of this too!

Davina McCall has admitted she’s slightly jealous of one thing Holly Willoughby gets that she doesn’t…

Any guesses?

The television presenter has revealed she’d LOVE to have even half of Holly’s gorgeous telly wardrobe, as she wore the same dress for the whole series of her new show, This Time Next Year.

Holly got to wear gorgeous dresses like this on Dancing On Ice (Credit: ITV)

Davina’s programme sees her interviewing people about their hopes and dreams, before catching up with them the next year to see if they’ve achieved them.

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She wears the same dress throughout filming, to give the illusion of time not passing.

That means she doesn’t get to dazzle viewers in a gorgeous new outfit every week, like Holly did on Dancing On Ice!

Davina on This Time Next Year (Credit ITV)

Davina told New magazine: “Holly Willoughby gets so many dresses on Dancing On Ice. I get one bloody dress!

“Clearly it’s a big thing choosing the dress because it’s something I need to feel comfortable in, but also something I wouldn’t get sick of.”

Davina echoed those sentiments in a separate interview with OK! magazine, joking: “Holly’s got a million £1,000 dresses in her wardrobe and I’ve got two. One from last year and the other for this year!”

We love Davina’s red dress! (Credit: ITV)

This Time Next Year returns for a new series on April 10, with a whole new batch of emotional and poignant stories.

“We have got quite a few medical goals which have been really interesting,” said Davina.

“We’ve had a young girl who wants to have her first sleepover but her illness has made it impossible for her to do that. We’ve also got somebody who, through an autoimmune illness, her nose disappeared into her face and she wants to be able to go outside again and not feel self conscious and she was really amazing.

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Davina ahead of her guest appearance on Saturday Night Takeaway over the weekend (Credit: Instagram @davinamccall)

“It was quite a harrowing story, so really different stories this time.”

She added: “I do sometimes get emotional in the ‘this time’ bit when they come in and make their pledge, but the time when I get really emotional is when they come back out and tell me how they’ve done it.

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“We had a really amazing story where a granny wanted to learn how to read, she was very dyslexic and she had been called stupid all her life but all she wanted to do was learn how to read. And she described the sort of prison she is in because it’s road signs, it’s food, it’s everything.

“All she wanted to do was read to her grandkids, it was the sweetest thing so yeah, you get really attached to people and it is very emotional but usually the real emotion comes when you find out if they’ve done it or not.”

This Time Next Year returns to ITV on Tuesday, April 10 at 9pm

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Nancy Brown
Associate Editor