Celebrity Gogglebox’s Denise Van Outen ‘lied’ to get dream Big Breakfast job

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Celebrity Gogglebox's Denise Van Outen has shared a startling revelation about her career and how she managed to rise through the ranks.

She said that her blagging got her breakthrough Big Breakfast role as a weather girl when she fibbed that she had taken a metrological course.

Denise, 47, said: "When it came to going for jobs, I hadn’t lost my creative streak when it came to asserting my suitability for a particular role.

"I wasn't shy about that, sometimes I'd even add things to my CV that I hadn't done.

"There were times back in the day when I thought, 'Right! What's been shot in the last couple of years that I might feasibly have been in?'"

She went on to say: "I remember going up for a part in a film once, and adding a Roman Polanski film to my CV, one that I was never in.

"Of course, with Google and the internet, you can’t get away with that sort of thing anymore, but back then I was pretty comfortable bolstering my credentials where necessary."

In her new book A Bit Of Me, Denise told how she was up for a screen test to present the weather on The Big Breakfast – and fibbed again.

She revealed: "What did I know about reading a weather report? Didn't you have to have the right sort of meteorological knowledge for that?

"What I did know was that this was a fantastic opportunity, Channel 4 was doing a big relaunch of the show, and that’s where I came in.

"As per, I went all out, fibbing about having taken a meteorological course and assuring them that I’d be able to write my own weather report, no one could ever accuse me of not being a trier!"

However, bosses at Channel 4 knew that Denise was chancing her own but hired her, with the blonde beauty taking the job but refusing to wear a bikini.

Denise added: "They told me they knew full well I was making it all up, but if I could sit there brazenly delivering that level of bulls***, I was definitely the girl for the job.

"I started on the show in September 1996, and, back in the nineties, it was all about the gimmicks.

"The original idea was for me to read the weather in a bikini, but I said no to that straight off the bat, the next idea was to take the weather report out of The Big Breakfast house and into the air.

"They wanted me up in a chopper flying around the UK, delivering the weather and the traffic news, and that's what I did."

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