STAND UP GUY

THIS IS GENUINELY the most terrifying thing I’ve ever done and that includes I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here. When I did the first season of that show, I had no idea what I was doing. I was flown to Africa and my phone was taken off me. In my mind that has always been the scariest thing I’ve experienced. This has topped it.

At first I didn’t realise I had weight to lose. I just always assumed that I was sweet in that department. I also held weight in places that people didn’t realise. I held a bit in my face and I was also holding it around my stomach and no one had any idea.

I turned 30 during lockdown and spent five months inside in Melbourne eating junk. I knew I wasn’t the healthiest person in the world. And I thought, ‘What a fun, great challenge’.

To begin with, it was the whole, ‘Can I even do this? What am I doing?’ I already have terrible anxiety. I get anxious over everything. I own a weighted blanket. I’m one of those people who needs to be under a weighted blanket for an hour, once a day. I’m definitely going to have anxiety about this issue coming out.

I was a state swimmer