Davina McCall has insisted that she will not be stepping down as presenter of Big Brother and hopes that the show will run and run.

McCall was recently reported as saying that the show would be ending after the 2010 series, however yesterday she told The Sun:

“I’m staying with the show. I don’t want to leave.

“If it is recommissioned, and I expect it will be after the contract expires next year, I still want to present it. That show has been my constant for the last ten years. I love it and don’t want it to end. I want to present it until I am very old. If I have my way they’ll have me on that stage on my deathbed.”

Davina is often criticised for being too soft on the more nasty housemates who are evicted. However she defended her interviewing style saying:

“People usually think I’m being too soft.

“Friends of mine will often have a go at me about that, and I love that, because it makes me realise how much they care about the programme. But at the end of the day, I work for Big Brother and we asked them to go into that house. I have to get them to answer my questions appropriately.

“I can’t just roast them. It’s not like going on Newsnight where you expect Jeremy Paxman to roast you because that’s what he does.

“We have asked those people to go there, and they’ve given up enormous parts of their life to go in there, and they’ve entertained us.

“I would like to think that I can ask difficult questions.

“But sometimes I like to ask a really difficult question with a bit of a smile.”