Cat Deeley has recalled suffering a ‘frightening’ health scare during a live TV show as she spoke on Monday’s episode of This Morning.

The presenter, 47, was joined by her co-host Ben Shephard as they discussed a new ‘miracle drug’ to help combat migraine attacks.

Opening up ab out her own struggles, Cat revealed she had her first experience while presenting So You Think You Can Dance and was forced to ‘push through.’

She explained: ‘Mine goes from the outside in, actually more kind of like tunnel vision!

‘I got my first migraine on live TV, it was actually really frightening as I didn’t know what was happening to me and I’d never had one before.’

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Cat Deeley, 47, has recalled suffering a ‘frightening’ health scare during a live TV show as she spoke on Monday’s episode of This Morning

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Opening up ab out her own struggles, the presenter revealed she had her first experience of a migraine while presenting So You Think You Can Dance and was forced to ‘push through’ (pictured on the show in August 2023)

Cat continued: ‘But now, I get them occasionally and I can see symptoms straight away. If I act straight away with something like migraine relief, it gets rid of it!’

Speaking to MailOnline in 2017, she added: ‘That was the worst experience ever. I had no idea what was happening, which was the scariest part.

‘I got tunnel vision halfway through the show and my head felt like it was exploding. But what can you do?

‘You are live in front of millions. You push through on adrenalin and then collapse when the show is over.’

Last week, it was reported This Morning viewing figures have dipped since Cat and Ben began helming the show, according to a report.

Following the departure of Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield, the ITV show was thrown into chaos as producers scrambled to find permanent replacements.

Cat and Ben were finally unveiled as the show’s new host’s last month, with their debut episode drawing an average viewership of 806,000 and a peak of one million – among the show’s highest ratings of 2024 so far.

But the following week saw the figure plunge to as low as 692,500, lower than both Holly and Phillip’s last day, which saw 767,00 people tune in.

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She explained: ‘I got my first migraine on live TV, it was actually really frightening as I didn’t know what was happening to me and I’d never had one before’

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Speaking to MailOnline in 2017 , she added: ‘You are live in front of millions. You push through on adrenalin and then collapse when the show is over’

A source told The Sun: ‘The hope was that the new duo would bring back an air of stability and familiarity back to This Morning. It’s still relatively early days, but the signs are not good.’

‘After the initial flurry of interest on their first day in the job, the viewing figures almost immediately dipped back into six figures.

‘ITV bosses will be hoping they can turn things around before the next big milestone date as they’ve so much riding on Ben and Cat being a success.’

A spokesperson for This Morning told MailOnline: Ben and Cat have recorded the best audience reach of the year so far on This Morning with 4.5 million viewers across one week.