Love & loneliness CANDY LANE’S BITTERSWEET ISLAND TELL-ALL
For the past two months, Candy Lane has been battling it out on Celebrity Treasure Island, facing not only gruelling physical challenges but the shocking ageism of her own teammates.
And now that she’s one of the final six players left standing, the 61-year-old ballroom champion can talk openly about how blindsided she felt when her fellow competitors left her on the sidelines because of her age.
“That was a lonely feeling,” confesses Candy in an exclusive interview with the Weekly.
‘I don’t think they saw it as being as bad as it was’
“I get on really well with people of all ages, so it was unexpected to be dismissed by the younger group.”
The hit TVNZ 2 show saw 21 Kiwi celebrities stranded on a remote beach in Northland, where
