'One Show' presenters reveal initial dislike

Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley of BBC's The One Show have revealed that they initially struggled to get on.

Bleakley, who replaced Myleene Klass as the show's presenter last year, told the Radio Times that Chiles thought she was a "nonentity".

She said: "It's no secret that I didn't like Adrian at all to begin with. I found him intense. And I think, as far as he was concerned, I was a nonentity. But I gave as good as I got and eventually that created a chemistry. I had to prove myself to him."

Chiles, who fronted The One Show when it aired as a trial broadcast in 2006, confessed that Bleakley did not make a good first impression.

He said: "At first, I thought she was a dippy, nice-looking bird from Northern Ireland, and she thought I was a miserable old fart. But we eventually just clicked. Christine's technically brilliant.

"She crosses the 'i's and dots the 't's. What tends to happen is that I put us in trouble, and she gets us out of it."

Chiles also revealed that he turned down a lucrative offer to front ITV's football coverage because The One Show was a "once in a lifetime" opportunity.

"I suppose that if I hadn't had this, I would have gone," he said. "But you can't beat a show like this. They come along once in a lifetime."