JUMP AMY: I’M A CAT WITH 8 LIVES
Star vows to fight on after horror crash
THE Jump’s Amy Willerton says a terrifying crash on the ski slopes has left her feeling like a cat that’s lost one of its nine lives.
But she has vowed not to quit the disaster-prone Channel 4 contest.
Former Miss Universe Great Britain Amy, 24, said: “We are all bruised and battered now – just like soldiers who are fighting on.”
Medics rushed to the Austrian slopes this week after model Amy crashed while hurtling down the ice on an oversize tea tray in a skeleton training run.
She recalled: “I looked at the sky after the crash thinking, ‘I’m too scared to move in case I realise that I can’t.’
“The producers said it was the worst crash that they had ever watched.
“It was a miracle that I got up. I feel like a cat with nine lives and now I’m living on eight. It took a lot of willpower to get back to the jumps again.”
Curves
She returned to training with a bandaged arm and leg.
Amy said: “I have had a lot more anxiety now. I’m definitely more scared. This is the toughest thing I’ve ever done. I’ve had to grow a pair of b****.”
Amy is set to compete again tonight and is determined to triumph.
She will go head to head against Spencer Matthews, Louis Smith, Jason Robinson, Jade Jones, Gareth Thomas, Kadeena Cox, Lydia Bright, Emma Parker Bowles and Caprice.
Amy said: “I keep saying to my trainer James, ‘I can’t jump, give me a moment.’ But I am going to keep on.
“I won’t let this mentally knock me because this competition is more about the mental mindset than anything else. Once that goes, you are out.”
Her boyfriend Daniel Day has been a tower of strength. She said: “He has been reading me Muhammad Ali quotes and sending motivational messages.”
She is also being backed by Katie Price, who has become a close friend despite an earlier falling out. Other Jump rivals have rallied round. “Lydia and Caprice have been bringing me chocolate,” said Amy. “Lydia is in the room next to mine at the hotel and nd we talk out of our windows.”
She has been taking aking tips on toughening up from Paralympian mpian Kadeena Cox.
Amy said: “Kadeenaadeena is fierce and I’m trying to take ke on board that attitude. I get nervous ervous and I can be a bit of a daydreamer.” dreamer.”
But the former r I’m A Celebrity campmate said a bonus of the rigorous trainingng is that it has changed her figure.ure.
Amy said: “MyMy ankles used to swell but now I amm far more toned and I have got a lot more muscle on my legs.”
Her curves were envied by swimmer Rebeccaca Adlington on I’m A Celebrity in 2013, leading to tearful moments nts in camp.
Amy said: “I’d say to Becky, ‘You’ve achieved far more than me e in your life, why are you worrying?’
“It’s only now ow I’m older that I don’t have thehe body hang- ups sI I used to. I had severe vere acne as a teenager and was always very conscious of that.
“I nearly ruineded my chance of doing I’m A Celebrity because I was so adamant that I needed my y concealer.”
She believes Katie Price “could easily hack it” on The Jump. Amy said: “We’re very similar in that hat once we’ve decided on something wee see it through.”
“If the show’ss bosses could convince her, she would giveive it 100 per cent.”
The pair fell out in 2011 after Amy beat 10,000 rival al young models to win Sky Living’s Signedned by Katie Price.
But Amy thenn rejected a contract, alleging that pledges dges were not being kept.
She said: “I wasas young and Katie was going through a tough time. But we are friends. She even n invited me to spend New Year with her.”
Sir Bradley Wiggins will appear on screen tonight,t, despite having withdrawn fromm the contest with a broken leg.g.