Denise Van Outen came close to paralysis while competing on 'Strictly Come Dancing'.
Denise Van Outen suffered serious injury
The 48-year-old star had to undergo surgery after a disc "dislodged" into her spinal cord and she was warned by doctors that she was just fractions away from her injury being much worse.
She is quoted by the Daily Star newspaper as saying: "When I took part in 2012, a disc dislodged into my spinal cord and I needed an operation.
"I was told that if the disc had gone into my spinal cord slightly more, I would have been paralysed from the neck down."
And that's not the only time the former 'Big Breakfast' host has suffered major injury training for such a show, as she was also left in agony almost a decade later when she worked on 'Dancing On Ice'.
She continued: "Then, during 'Dancing On Ice' in 2021, I fractured my shoulder in three parts. I can't blame anybody - I was in shows knowing there was a risk."
As a result, Denise has vowed not to take part in any more "dangerous" reality shows.
She said: "Now, if I get invited to do dangerous shows, it's a straight no."
Denise van Outen "lied every day" for weeks to land a role on 'The Big Breakfast'.
The blonde beauty - who hosted the show alongside Johnny Vaughan - shared on 'The Big Narstie Show': "When I first went for 'The Big Breakfast', I thought I was going for the main presenting job, but then I found out I was actually auditioning for the weather girl.
"I thought – I'm just going to have to lie my way through this. So I pretended I had done a meteorological course. And I managed to get through it. And then I got the job, and I was like – s***, I don't know anything about the weather! Because I'd pretended I'd studied it.
"When I started the show I had to ring up ITN in the morning and get the weather report from them! My first contract there was for six weeks, and I literally lied every day that I could do it, so I had to just make it up.
"But in the end of it, they offered me the main presenter role so it worked.
"But it got to the point where I was such a s*** weather girl that I was just flying round in the helicopter like, if you want to know what the weather is like just look out your window!"
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