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arpet again but her life has turned round nd the public support has blown her away. She said: “The phone hasn’t stopped. I id Clink, then Celebs on the Farm, and m doing my first play, Down Our Street, n New Brighton. I’m terrified. I’m singing. make Sheridan Smith sound like Celine Dion. But I’m loving being back on set.” After the Venables ourt case, Tina roke down in tears n TV as she told ow she was too skint o take her daughter o Disneyland Paris

and ended up agging a f r ee oliday.

“People have been wonderful. I did an nterview with This

Morning after the £10,000 fine and a company rang me, a small travel service called Go West With Mickey,” she said.

“We hadn’t had a holiday for three years and when this posh lady Elspeth first rang me I thought it was a joke.

“We went to Disneyland Paris. The baby was waited on by princesses, in the best hotel, the best room, it was wonderful. Then all the planes were cancelled on the Friday iday we were due home. We didn’t even have a tenner. We were in the airport 4pm Friday and we flew home at 10.50pm on Sunday.

“I’m ringing people asking them to lend us £20. We’d gone from a glam holiday to sleeping in a Premier Lodge in a single bed with no food, I had a packet of crisps in my bag that I’d had for six days and that’s all we had to eat.

“I’m either a hundred pound overdrawn or I’ve got ten grand in the bank. Nothing is ever normal.

“But working with the homeless, the lonely, people with addictions, helping t hem on Christmas Day... You think you’ve got problems but it just doesn’t compare.”

While she says she put on weight during her depression, the 5ft-tall star slips easily into a size eight and poses in outfits women a third of her age would wear and chats about her new diet as she heartily tucks into a chicken sandwich and a plate of chips.

She says she would like to get down to seven and a half stone and later this year plans to share her slimming secrets.

She joked: “I’ve done every diet known to man before the gastric band, I’ve been to fat camps, been locked up, the only thing I’ve not done is have my jaw wired.

“Our problem with obesity isn’t down to education. It’s how much we eat, we all know broccoli is better for us than a Creme Egg. It’s everything in moderation.”