After 24 years on TV, you’d expect Ben Shephard to be used to a bit of pampering.
The sports-mad star, who rose to fame as a presenter on GMTV and has been on Good Morning Britain since its launch in 2014, is happily chatting away in our makeup chair when he has a minor panic: “I never usually have this much makeup on - because you’re distracting me I’m not telling her to stop!”
The down-to-earth 47-year-old is one of those faces so embedded in our British TV tapestry it’s hard to remember a time when he wasn’t on screen, but there’s one show he’s been notably absent from – Strictly Come Dancing.
