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27
December 2006
Gary
Lineker Tops UK's Most
Watched
List
Gary
Lineker
is the UK's top TV
presenter - watched by
more viewers than anyone
else in 2006, according
to new viewing
figures.
Boosted
by the summer football
frenzy, the BBC's
frontman of the World
Cup and Match Of The Day
was seen by two-thirds
of the viewing nation
this year (36.4
million).
Who
Wants To Be A
Millionaire? host Chris
Tarrant, whose marriage
breakdown grabbed the
headlines, got some
happier news by being
the second-most watched
presenter - seen by 32.9
million.
Davina
McCall is the
most-watched female TV
presenter of the year
with 30.7 million
viewers.
Despite
the axing of her BBC1
chat show, she proved a
ratings winner across
the summer with Big
Brother 7.
McCall
came fourth overall,
behind Phillip
Schofield, who
supplemented his This
Morning ratings with ITV
show Dancing On Ice to
take third spot (32.4
million).
Comeback
king Noel
Edmonds,
who found success again
with Channel 4 quiz Deal
Or No Deal and is back
on the BBC with a
National Lottery show,
is fifth with 27.6
million.
He
is followed by ITV
sports presenter Steve
Rider (27.4 million), X
Factor host Kate
Thornton (27 million),
Ant and Dec (26.4
million), Tess Daly
(26.2 million) and Fern
Britton (26.1
million).
Five
of the six most-watched
presenters this year are
men over 40, according
to the research by media
agency Media Planning
Group (MPG), which has
analysed TV viewing
since the start of the
year.
Gary
Lineker is 46, Tarrant
60, Schofield 44,
Edmonds 58, and Rider is
55 - dispelling the idea
that only young faces
can make it big on
TV.
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