'Didn't want him in my life!' Chemmy Alcott named broken shin after golfer Sir Nick Faldo

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Dancing on Ice star Chemmy Alcott has told how she named her horrific shin injury after celebrated professional golfer, Sir Nick Faldo.Speaking exclusively with Express.co.uk, the alpine ski racer, 39, opened up candidly about the injuries she's sustained throughout her skiing career, which included her breaking her neck aged 11 and a smash in 2010 that saw her bones pierce through both her skin and ski boots.Speaking about the horror crash which saw her break her right leg in two places in 2010, Chemmy told how she had been living with the pain.She said: "It was persistent straight after the crash."But I had it all the way until January last year."I had this, like, Nick Faldo size golf ball of swelling on the front of my shin that I squashed into a ski boot all the time," she added.The Ski Sunday presenter explained the reasoning behind naming her injury after the sportsman.Chemmy went on: "I always call him Nick Faldo."I'm a bit of a, 'name everything to personalise it', and I'm like, 'Oh, hey, Nick's, back today, I better take it easy.'"However, despite affectionately naming her injury after the sports commentator, she has never come face to face with him.Chemmy continued: "And I've actually never met Nick Faldo."And I've got nothing against him at all."But I didn't want him in my life, on my leg."Even though I was retired, I was spending a lot of time in a ski boot and actually working in skiing, I had relatively few days off," she divulged.Elsewhere in the interview, Chemmy opened up on wearing her injuries with "pride".She reasoned: "All the injuries were proof that I was willing and confident enough to take risks."A lot of my career, actually, in my healthiest, in my twenties, I didn't break anything."And it's.