Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard confirmed as This Morning presenters
Pair will host the show Monday to Thursday after departure of Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby last year
November 2023
Scandals and a sinking ship: can This Morning survive?
TV review
This Morning review – Sarah Ferguson’s love tips make a doomed show even more disastrous
May 2023
Phillip Schofield denies claims of ‘toxic’ culture on This Morning
Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary step in at post-Schofield This Morning
July 2022
Flashback
Dermot O’Leary looks back: ‘I don’t remember having a bowl on my head for a haircut’
The TV presenter recreates an old photo and recalls his Irish household – and breaking into TV
May 2020
My lockdown TV
'Normal People just pierces your heart': Dermot O'Leary's lockdown TV
The presenter and podcaster on the nostalgic power of the BBC’s latest hit, and how Giri/Haji captures British mundanity
April 2016
Surely, finally, this is the end for The X Factor
Cheryl’s left, Louis Walsh is threatening to return – and even if the show does by some miracle survive, it will have to compete with The Voice. Will someone put The X Factor out of its misery?
March 2016
Run, Dermot! Run while you still can! Dermot O'Leary returns to X Factor
Dermot O’Leary to return to The X Factor after a year away
January 2016
TV and radio blog
The National Television Awards 2016: who should win?
TV and radio blog
Dermot's right about The X Factor – and it's not the only show that should take a break
Rest X Factor for a year, Dermot O'Leary tells Simon Cowell
How I get ready
How I get ready: Dermot O’Leary
November 2015
TV and radio blog
Children in Need: we'll miss Terry Wogan but we're in safe hands with Dermot O'Leary
Presenting the BBC’s annual charity marathon is one of the hardest acts on television, so it’s good news that while Wogan recuperates he is being replaced by the very capable dancing Dermot
August 2015
X Factor's Simon Cowell laughs off ratings threat from Strictly line-up
‘If it’s us versus Peter Andre, I’m going to put my money on us’, says presenter, whose ITV judging panel includes Rita Ora and Nick Grimshaw
July 2015
Dermot O’Leary: 'I'll never say anything bad about X Factor because it bought me my house'
He’s done with presenting TV talent shows. So what’s next – could he be the next Paxman? O’Leary talks about James Joyce, politics and his hero Terry Wogan
April 2015
Olly Murs and Caroline Flack to co-host The X Factor
Simon Cowell asks former hosts of spin-off show The Xtra Factor to replace Dermot O’Leary on TV talent contest suffering long-term ratings decline
