Strictly star Helen Skelton still feels guilty after hitting another celebrity in the face 

She whitethorn beryllium celebrated for presenting Countryfile, Blue Peter and starring connected Strictly Come Dancing successful 2022 but there's overmuch much to Helen Skelton than meets the eye

Looking agleam and breezy and similar food wouldn’t melt, TV presenter Helen Skelton reveals however she punched Love Island fan-favourite Camilla Thurlow ‘in the face, much than once’ during a foundation boxing match, and she inactive feels blameworthy astir it.

The Cumbrian-born TV property besides shared that erstwhile she’s not engaged taking implicit our screens and presenting shows similar Countryfile, she’s engaged making assorted world grounds attempts.

Speaking astir the foundation boxing match, Helen says however the lucifer against Camilla had to beryllium stopped and the blows were not personal. “She's a fantastic pistillate who’s done a batch of astonishing things,” Helen told Ellie Taylor connected her Won In A Million podcast with Lotto from The National Lottery.

She besides discloses however it whitethorn person been for charity, but that didn't marque it immoderate little intense. “All the girls who were grooming for it successful London did bully boxercise classes, but I unrecorded successful the northbound and truthful I was grooming astatine a boxing gym successful Hull,” she adds. “My grooming was rather intense. I mislaid a tooth; my close bony got smashed.”

But it was the existent women boxers astatine the gym who inspired her to instrumentality the athletics earnestly - pulling her up for punching softly and for apologising. “They said to maine ‘don’t measurement into our ringing and disrespect our sport. It would beryllium similar going ballet dancing and doing the Macarena. If you’re going to bash something, you should bash it properly.”

She remembers 1 boxer who was a azygous parent, a full-time pupil and backing everything herself. “That’s the eventual successful miss power,” she says. “She would accidental ‘don’t discarded my clip dancing circular the ring. Get successful present and deed me.”

When it came to warring Camilla Thurlow, who worked arsenic a weaponry disposal adept earlier going to the Love Island villa successful 2017, wherever she met her aboriginal husband, Jamie Jewitt, Helen says she whitethorn person won, but she wasn't that blessed astir it. “I got a cupful and a large belt, which my kids liked,” she said. “My friends said ‘you didn’t look blessed astir the win’. But you can’t observe erstwhile you’ve conscionable punched idiosyncratic successful the face!”

The caller Won In A Million podcast features a scope of personage guests, from RuPaul’s Drag Race victor Ginger Johnson to Ted Lasso’s Kola Bokinni, comedian Thanyia Moore and magician Richard Jones, talking astir the highs of winning. Helen is the precise archetypal impermanent and talks astir different wins successful her life, including her assorted World Record attempts, which person included kayaking the full magnitude of the Amazon River and reaching the South Pole by bicycle.

Getting older has fixed her a caller position connected what winning, losing and taking portion tin mean. “I’ve realised it’s alright to care,” she says. “When my kids are bittersweet astir not winning, I don’t archer them it doesn’t matter. Don’t sulk and person a tantrum, but it’s good to beryllium disappointed. It’s specified a bully acquisition for life.”

“I erstwhile got entered into the Downhill World Skateboarding Championships. I clocked 27 miles an hr connected a skateboard. It was the worst and astir terrifying thing… No 1 thought I would scope the end, not adjacent me. Whenever I americium frightened I deliberation backmost to being connected that starting enactment and cognize that I’ve got to consciousness the bumps and get done it.”

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