somehow miss the point of her. Here she is, not long after 7am on a Friday morning, bounding into a café in west London with all the enthusiasm you might expect of a former Blue Peter presenter who once kayaked solo down the Amazon, and cycled to the South Pole.There is not a trace of self pity evident on her fresh and fearless face, which has travelled here by motorbike, because… well, why not?
Skelton is, after all, the kind of person who agreed to run the 78-mile Namibian ultra marathon in 2009, a feat so gruelling that she became only the second woman in history to complete it.
In comparison, most things are a doddle.The 39-year-old dumps her stuff at the table, has a quick FaceTime with her kids – Ernie, seven, Louis, five and Elsie, now nine months old, who are back home in Cumbria with their grandparents – and proceeds to order two lattes in quick succession.
After our interview, she has a brief appearance on Lorraine, and then it’s dress rehearsal time for that weekend’s Strictly Come Dancing.Ah yes, Strictly.
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