Who did you want to know about
The consensus from those I’ve spoken to is we wanted to know more about Davina McCall’s mother, not her great-grandfathers who were featured in the first episode of the seventh series of Who Do You Think You Are on BBC 1 last night.
Davina’s mother, a frenchwoman, breakfasted on ‘un double Ricard’ and was said, by McCall, to have been a heavy drinker. They were estranged. She was fun to be around, except if you were her daughter, McCall said.
I reckon McCall only agreed to do the programme on the basis that they didn’t look into her immediate family tree but go further back, where whatever turned up (bastard royalty, as it happened) would do less harm to her celebrity status.
