She has also had a number of minor appearances on other children's programmes. In 2005, Willoughby presented Feel the Fear, a children's entertainment programme in which the presenters are set unnerving challenges. In 2006, the show's title was changed to Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown in order to reflect the popularity of its co-presenters, Willoughby and Stephen Mulhern. On this programme she met her future husband Dan Baldwin, one of the show's producers. Willoughby's first role as a children's entertainer came when she rejoined CITV in 2004 to co-present the entertainment show Ministry of Mayhem which aired on Saturday mornings. Later in 2002, Willoughby presented a factual entertainment programme for children called Xchange and went on to host several other children's shows for CBBC: X-perimental and CBBC at the Fame Academy (CBBC's version of the BBC talent show Fame Academy). This secured her an agent who then contacted the BBC. Then eventually, she found work as assistant manager during which time she persuaded a friend to make a showreel of her. Willoughby also took on menial jobs and started an Open University course in psychotherapy. ![]() Willoughby worked as a receptionist for a while and then as a runner for the defunct shopping channel Auction World TV. She also appeared in a show called S Club 7: Artistic Differences playing a character called Zoe with the regular members of the band. In this show actors represented an alternative S Club. In 2000, Willoughby won an audition for a show on CITV featuring S Club 7 called S Club TV. From 1998, at the age of 17, Willoughby started modelling bras, underwear and tights for clients including Pretty Polly, appearing in advertisements and posters. She appeared in teen magazines for girls such as Mizz, Just Seventeen, Shout, and More!. ![]() ![]() In 1995, at the age of 14, Willoughby was spotted by talent scouts at The Clothes Show Live exhibition and signed with the model agency, Storm Management. She was educated at the independent Burgess Hill Girls in the town of Burgess Hill in West Sussex, and The College of Richard Collyer in Horsham. Willoughby was born in Brighton, East Sussex, the younger of two daughters of Brian Willoughby, a sales manager of a double-glazing company, and Linda Willoughby ( née Fleming), a former air stewardess.
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