FOR DANCING ON ICE
she has an intense daily regime. She said: “Most days I get up at 6am, get on my bike, ride 5km to the park, run between 7km and 10km, then get back on my bike. I run every day. I weight train three times a week. I love constant activity. “I have too much energy. If people aren’t physically active they would find it awful. “It will be interesting to see the impact the show’s training has on my running and bike riding. I’m already tweaking my weight regime.” To keep herself in top health, Trisha cut out meat and soya and is now upping her protein to help with her training for the show. “That training will take some adjusting to but I’m used to regular physical exertion,” she said. Trisha has also opened up about the toll chemotherapy took, forcing her to experience the menopause in 48 hours, which she has described as feeling like she was “thrown at a wall”. And she has told how her face “fell in”, detailing how a cranial surgeon applied fillers as well as Botox, which helped with her failing eyesight.
Regarding her strengths and weaknesses, Trisha said: “I’d say my strength is my physical strength, my have-a-go mentality and my sense of humour. My weakness is a form of dyslexia I have. Sometimes I have difficulty working out left and right.” hile preparations for the show are well under way, Trisha said she has not been studying previous contestants.
“I have deliberately not watched any of the past series,” she said. “For the same reason that when I started doing a talk show, I never watched any Oprah. When you do something like that, you start thinking, ‘I couldn’t do that.’
“When I run up a hill I never look at the top because it makes you think, ‘I can’t do it.’ I just put one foot in front of the other and then the next day I see if I can do it more quickly. I’ll just take each week as it comes.”
In 1998, Trisha’s morning talk show launched on ITV and regularly attracted 1.3million viewers. It later moved to Channel 5, before the host relocated to the US in 2009. She lived in Connecticut with her third husband Peter Gianfrancesco, a psychotherapist, while she made talk shows. The couple were married for 20 years before their 2018 divorce. Trisha revealed she had been partying in New York when she tipsily offered to appear on Dancing on Ice. “I was invited to a soiree and one American guy said, ‘I was a pro on Dancing On Ice.’ “After a few bevvies, I take a selfie with him, saying, ‘I’d do DoI with this guy!’ The next morning I get a call asking me to do it. The hangover hadn’t even cleared.” Trisha will be joining fellow celebrities including Maura Higgins, Michael Barrymore, Kevin Kilbane, Ian “H” Watkins and Joe Swash on the ice. And she credits her Polish pro skating partner, Lukasz Rozycki, 40, with calming her nerves.
She has said: “He has worked out how to talk to me. I had zero nerves and I 90 per cent put that down to him.”
Trisha has two children, Billie, 29, and Madison, 26, from her second marriage to producer Mark Grieve.
Thanks to her exercise regime, she has said people mistake the trio for sisters.
Her first husband, Australian politician Robert Nestdale, died from Aids in 1989, after lying to her that he had cancer. She fell in love with a mystery man she calls “Boo” two years ago, shortly before her 60th birthday, and says she has finally found Mr Right.
Dancing on Ice begins on ITV at 6pm on January 5.
ROMANCE Joe and Stacey
JOE Swash has laughed off the idea of finding romance on the ice – saying girlfriend Stacey Solomon would kill him if he had an affair.
Stacey, 30, will be accompanying him to the rink to keep an eye on him.
But she will be there just for laughs, according to ex-EastEnders star Joe.
The 37-year-old joked: “She thinks I’ll be rubbish – I probably will be.
“She’ll definitely be down there watching for entertainment.”
Asked about the risk of falling for a dancer, he said: “Stacey would kill me.”
But he is more worried that his lack of rhythm will make him come a cropper.
“I can’t dance on a dance floor,” he admitted.
“So having to dance on ice seems a bit ridiculous.”
Joe and Stacey started dating in 2016 and have a six-month-old son, Rex.
GEMMA Collins’ spectacular fall on the ice has made it into the show’s hall of fame, according to its hosts.
The TOWIE personality, partnered by Matt Evers, was skating to Celine Dion when she tripped on the rink during week four of series 11 in January.
Holly Willoughby, 38, said Gemma, also 38, has “gone down in history”, adding: “I think people will always talk about her on the show.” Co-presenter Phillip Schofield, 57, added: “There are a number of moments in the Dancing On Ice history, and Gemma has now entered the hall of fame.”
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Holly and Phillip