Davina intervention

WET LEG'S RHIAN TEASDALE EXPLAINS HOW A POPULAR TV PRESENTER PROVIDED UNLIKELY INSPIRATION FOR THE BAND'S NEW SINGLE.

- BY CASEY COOPER-FISKE AND LAUREN DEL FABBRO

TV PRESENTER Davina McCall's cheery Big Brother catchphrase "I'm coming to get you" might not be the first thing you expect to hear in one of 2025's best love songs, but with previous references to cult rom-com Buffalo 66, supermarkets and the movie Mean Girls, Wet Leg are not your average indie band.

The group's third single from their latest album Moisturizer is named after the 57-year-old presenter of The Masked Singer, with the band's frontwoman Rhian Teasdale revealing that Davina was one of the band's first celebrity fans.

The band, made up of singer Rhian, guitarist Hester Chambers, drummer Henry Holmes, multi-instrumentalist Josh Mobaraki, and bass player Ellis Durand, recently performed to a bumper crowd on the Other Stage at Glastonbury Festival, having played the smaller Park Stage back in 2022.

Rhian, who was born in Formby, Merseyside, before moving to the Isle Of Wight during her childhood, says of the performance: "We got off stage, the five of us, and we were just so anxious and excited before that, for it to go down well and for people to actually turn up, it was crazy.