STAR ON HER HIDDEN HEARTACHE
things and doing really well, and that’s great, but it took me a long time to pick myself up.
“It’s been really hard to get back on my feet and have the confidence to move forwards in my career.”
Taking part in Dancing on Ice is one of Melody’s steps to rebuild her self worth and carve out a new career on her terms.
She has been getting high scores from the judging panel on the ITV show, even impressing notoriously scathing Jason Gardiner.
No one can fault her hard work ethic. This week Melody has had the flu bug on top of horrendous injuries from a bad fall last week. But she has resisted the comfort of bed for the ice rink, where her feet feel frozen and she’s spun by partner Alexander Demetrio at speed.
She says: “My arms are so weak I can hardly lift them, my shoulders are killing me, my elbows ache and after my head bounced off the ice my face is still really painful to the touch. And I have flu. But at least I didn’t break my jaw. And I have to just keep going.”
Working so hard leaves Melody, who has temporarily relocated from Los Angeles, little time for socialising or to find a British man to date. “I’m MELODY ON HER SEARCH FOR A BRITISH BOYFRIEND Melody, centre, performing as a Pussycat Doll in Australia back in 2009 single and hoping to mingle,” she says. “But I’m so knackered when I get home after training I have no idea where I’m going to meet anybody. But I hope I will.
“Maybe he’ll read this interview. “I feel like British men are very chivalrous. The door’s always being held for me, which is lovely. I don’t know what else to say about British men but hopefully I can find out.
“I have to know a person and really fall for the way he treats people and respects himself. There’s a model who has really nice style, I think he’s called David Gandy. No disrespect if he’s off the market, but he’s beautiful.”
But David’s partner has nothing to fear as Melody says: “I’d never fight a woman for a man”.
That’s exactly why she is annoyed by rumours she is secretly feuding with Kim Kardashian over her past relationship with Kanye West.
Melody says: “I definitely knew Kanye before I even met Kim. But they’re happy and together and I’m very happy for them.
“Kim and I just stopped speaking. Honestly, that’s all. Our lives just went in different directions.
“She’s a mother and she’s married, and I started spending a lot of time in Europe and we just kinda touch. It is what it is.
“It’s like friends you had in high school that you would never have thought you could spend a day without them, but it happens. But I love her and wish her the best.
“Why don’t I text her? She probably doesn’t have the same number. And I just believe in letting life roll. Life brings people back together if they’re meant to be together.
“I’m sure she’s fine without me and I’m OK without her.”
■ Dancing on Ice is on ITV tomorrow at 6pm. lost
I’m single and hoping to mingle but I am so tired after training