Dermot O’Leary was born Seán Dermot O’Leary in 1973 in Colchester, Essex to Irish parents from County Wexford. After leaving school with just two GCSE’s, he retook his school qualifications at a local college and eventually ended up doing a media studies degree at Middlesex University.

After a stint as a DJ on BBC Essex, he became a runner for various production companies, and from there managed to get a presenting slot on Channel 4 as part of their T4 strand. Since then, he’s become a British TV mainstay, appearing on Big Brother’s Little Brother , Blankety Blank , Shattered and from 2007 to 2015 The X Factor . He also co-presented the Brit Awards in 2017 with Emma Willis. Since 2020 he has co-hosted This Morning with Alison Hammond.

In his Letter to My Younger Self , Dermot

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