HELLO! diary, Lorraine Kelly shines a light on five inspiring women who are preparing to take on a challenging feat. Find out more below...I always think it's good to set yourself a challenge, even if it's a small one like finding five minutes in a busy day to sit with a cuppa and have a bit of a breather. I've done five marathons for charity and once trekked 100 miles in the Kenyan desert for Comic Relief, but I could never dream of attempting the incredible journey being undertaken by a group of British female firefighters I met this week.READ: Lorraine Kelly reveals weight loss during time away from showThe Antarctic Fire Angels are attempting to be the first all-women group to trudge 1900km across the Antarctic, stopping off at the South Pole halfway through their epic trek.WATCH: Lorraine Kelly shines a light on amazing health challengeGeorgina Gilbert, Rebecca Rowe, Nikki Upton, Emily Butler, and Rebecca Hinchley have been training hard in Norway and Sweden, ice swimming, skiing, and building up their stamina and resistance to the cold.READ: Lorraine Kelly candidly admits she's gone up four dress sizesREAD: Lorraine Kelly just wore the most flattering dress and it's in the sale The TV star met the Antarctic Fire AngelsAlong with extreme cold and tough conditions, they cheerfully admit that as women, they will also have to deal with menopausal symptoms, periods, and sheer exhaustion, but a big part of their expedition is inspiring young women and showing them that they can achieve as much as boys, if not more.Now I have been lucky enough to visit Antarctica to celebrate our silver wedding anniversary with my husband Steve.
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Sky Sports. Having started her career there in 1998, she spent some two decades working for the channel before moving on to pursue other career goals. As of June 2021, Kirsty has been a co-host on The Great British Breakfast on GB News.
She was also the presenter for Sky One's Kirsty's Home Videos , RI:SE and Simply the Best . In 2005, she presented for the All-Star Cup. Kirsty is also no stranger to the odd celebrity fixture.
She has made guest appearances on Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway , Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and Strictly Come Dancing . In 2010 she guest presented GMTV with Lorraine Kelly for two weeks, as well as Lorraine on ITV Breakfast . The single mother recently opened up about a health problem that resulted in hearing loss, and how she feared it might have been a brain tumour.
She told Loose Women how a “buzzing" in her ear led to sleep deprivation, which made her presenting the early morning show for GB News extremely difficult. READ MORE: The staggering largest amount won by a team on The Chase She said: "I went to the doctor and she checked me and said 'You’re very healthy, Kirsty, this is an emergency. '"And I went 'Oh my gosh, why? Could it be a tumour?' And she said 'Listen, it probably isn’t but you’re going to go and see a consultant tomorrow.
'"She added: "I was doing early morning on a breakfast show and I was getting up at 2. 45 in the morning. And, so you know, that's not pleasant anyway.
But my sleep has been affected because if you wake up in the night anyway, it's quite difficult to get back to sleep. "If you focus on the noise and it's silent, I often can't get back to sleep for two more hours. So actually, I can't function like that, as a single working mum, doing a
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