Davina McCall to be honoured at this year's Edinburgh TV Festival

She'll receive the Outstanding Achievement Award in August!

The Edinburgh TV Festival has announced that the mighty Davina McCall will be receiving this year's Outstanding Achievement Award at the TV Awards. Previous recipients have included Sir Lenny Henry, Claudia Winkleman, Jodie Comer, David Harewood and Hugh Laurie.

From her TV debut on MTV and playing Cupid on Streetmate to her era-defining decade hosting Big Brother, Davina McCall is one of the UK’s most successful and beloved broadcasters.

As well as fronting multiple shows including Long Lost Family, Million Pound Drop and The Masked Singer, Davina's wit, warmth and wisdom have been lighting up TV screens for more than 30 years.

In recent years, McCall has also become an outspoken champion and advocate for more public discourse around menopause and women’s health, including through her ground-breaking documentaries Sex, Myths and the Menopause and Sex, Mind and the Menopause.

She is now at the vanguard of visualised podcasts, bringing her spritely curiosity and engaging, open interviewing style to her hit podcast, Begin Again, which explores the lives and experiences of a broad range of celebrities and experts who have stepped outside their comfort zones and reinvented themselves.

At this year’s Festival, McCall will be in conversation to reflect on her incredible career as one of the UK’s most in-demand, and loved, TV talents.

On receiving the awards, Davina said "I can’t quite believe that I’ve been awarded such an honour for doing something I love so much. I 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. To be given the Outstanding Achievement Award is huge and I can’t wait to look back at the last 30 years in the session at Edinburgh this summer."

Further speaker and session announcements will be made in the coming weeks.

This year’s Festival, by Screen Scotland, will once again be held at the EICC in Edinburgh, and passes are on sale now here.

Edinburgh TV Festival runs Tuesday 25th to Friday 28th August