VICTORIA DERBYSHIRE, 52

The journalist embraced the fun side of her personality after her campaigning, award-winning news show was axed as part of BBC cost-cutting last year. The serious broadcaster started a new chapter in her career combining her other BBC work with saying ‘yes’ to facing snakes and creepy crawlies on I’m A Celebrity. Having experienced breast cancer she said: ‘Because of cancer,

I know more than lots of people, life is short.’