Strictly Come Dancing star Vicky Pattison made a superb impression throughout her dancefloor debut and was awarded 23 votes for her Jive with professional Kai Widdrington. Nevertheless, forward of her confirmed look on the star-studded BBC competitors, the truth star made a shock admission about her TV work. Vicky first arrived within the highlight in 2011 on MTV’s actuality present Geordie Shore, which adopted a bunch of younger women and men whose lives revolved round partying and the drama that got here with it. Following its 2014 exit, Vicky went on to win I’m A Celeb the next yr and even participate within the Australian spin-off, the place she completed in fourth place.
Nevertheless, it was her 2021 look in Movie star SAS: Who Dares Wins that the 37-year-old regrets. The gruelling programme pushes its well-known contestants to the restrict as they’re examined to the intense as they try to go the notoriously troublesome SAS Choice take a look at for a charitable belief towards most cancers. “I used to be terrified, I’ll at all times remorse that,” Vicky admitted as she mirrored on the present.
Throughout a podcast interview, the Strictly star defined: “By way of my profession, I’ve been so fortunate … with SAS, I really like the present, large fan, however I did it in lockdown.
“So the place I can myself comparatively robust and match … relatively than spending the yr doing pilates, coaching classes and happening runs. I spent the yr getting up at 3pm within the afternoon, having two deliveroos on daily basis.”
Vicky continued: “I used to be simply actually unhealthy, and what had occurred was I’d been meant to do Bear Grylls: The Island, I used to be meant to do this in March, after which the entire world closed down.
“It was attending to be a very long time since I’d been on TV, and that present wasn’t occurring, after which they got here to me with SAS.
“Deep down I knew, it most likely wasn’t the precise time however I used to be like ‘It’s going to be fantastic’ however it wasn’t, in order that one stands out in my head as most likely the precise present however fallacious time,” Vicky added to the Chloe vs The World podcast.
The 37 yr outdated’s time on SAS got here to a untimely finish as Vicky determined to stop after a military-inspired problem turned an excessive amount of to endure.
On the time, she took to Instagram and revealed that she “dreaded” the present airing because it was “bodily the toughest factor she had completed” and the “most emotionally troublesome place I’ve ever put myself in.”
Alongside a clip of herself on the present, she added: “I throw myself into all the things I do – I give a 110% & not having the ability to end the course has been an enormous supply of disgrace & embarrassment to me.”