When Vernon Kay was a model, he learned to be individual.

It’s a lesson that stood him in good stead when he unexpectedly became one of the most popular television presenters of the 2000s — a soft lad with a sweeping, tousled mop, sharp suit, and a winning sense of humour.

For a time, he was inescapable. On Sunday mornings, he was a comfort to hungover millennials, slotted between the Hollyoaks omnibus and a merciless episode of Popworld on T4.

He had his own Radio 1 show, took over Family Fortunes, hosted too many ITV game shows to count, and even caught attention across the pond, presenting on ABC’s Million Dollar Mind Game.

He hasn’t stopped since being discovered as a model at The Clothes Show Live in the late ’90s – but now, his career has come full circle.

Last year, he returned

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