Paula Radcliffe Latest Celebrity News & Gossip

As the BBC Sports Personality of the Year celebrates its 70th anniversary this week, OK! chats exclusively to one of its most iconic winners - long-distance runner Paula Radcliffe. Paula, 49, won the trophy back in 2002, becoming the first woman to do so in over a decade, and beating a certain footballing golden boy.

Mark Wright has been training for the London Marathon with the help of Olympic gold medallist Paula Radcliffe, revealing the runner has been "incredible".The former The Only Way is Essex star, 35, spoke of being mentored by the once-fastest female runner of all time, 48, in a chat with OK!: "You can't really beat it, can you? She’s incredible. When you're training for something like this, you always take advice on Google or people you know, who have done it everyone gives you different advice, but I just stuck with her expertise and advice." He added: "And of course, it was the best. Because she's the best of all time." Mark - who has finally moved into his epic Essex mansion - revealed he has been working with Paula for around two years after originally signing up to do the marathon last year.

Paula Radcliffe, won the London Marathon, not once, not twice, but three times – as well as the New York marathon an equal amount during her career. She also held the Women's World Marathon Record with an almost unimaginably fast time of 2:15:25 for 16 years until 2019.