Jayne Middlemiss is gearing as much as seem in BBC’s Pilgrimage greater than 20 years after dealing with rejection on Celebrity Love Island
Jayne Middlemiss is showing in BBC’s Pilgrimage(Image: BBC)
The inaugural winner of Love Island – initially known as Celebrity Love Island – has travelled fairly a distance since her stint on the truth programme over twenty years in the past.
Jayne Middlemiss is now that includes in a markedly totally different tv programme – the newest sequence of BBC’s Pilgrimage: The Road to Holy Island, which begins on Easter Sunday.
She’ll be accompanied by Diversity’s Ashley Banjo, actresses Hermione Norris and Patsy Kensit, actuality persona Tasha Ghouri and comedians Hasan Al-Habib and Ashley Blaker on an expedition throughout the landscapes of north-east England to Lindisfarne, one in every of Britain’s most important pilgrimage locations.
They’ll journey by way of the core of Northumberland and the Scottish Borders alongside a specifically chosen community of paths honouring three of England’s most commemorated seventh-century northern English saints – Hild, Oswald and Cuthbert.
Jayne has remained within the highlight because the early ’90s when she launched into a short stint as a glamour mannequin earlier than transitioning into broadcasting. Her debut presenting position was on music programme The O Zone alongside Jamie Theakston and she or he subsequently went on to host Top of the Pops amongst different exhibits, plus programmes for BBC Radio 1 and Radio Six Music.
Her mainstream presenting positions included BBC’s Holiday On a Shoestring, Robot Wars and The Games, and in 2005 she participated within the authentic iteration of Love Island the place former footballer Lee Sharpe left her heartbroken.
The duo did not grow to be an merchandise as Lee solely had eyes for former nurse and glamour mannequin Abi Titmuss, regardless of the present’s producers sending him and Jayne on a ‘make or break’ boat journey. She finally emerged victorious on the present, alongside DJ Fran Cosgrave. In 2006 she returned to Fiji to current Love Island’s sister programme Aftersun on ITV2, experiences OK!.
After her time on the truth present, Jayne, who hails from Northumberland and is now in her 50s, mirrored on what it taught her. “Being on Celebrity Love Island taught me to live every day as if it were your last, because you could be thrown off the next day,” she revealed in an interview with The Observer.
“Before that, I was a massive control freak: I wouldn’t drink, I wouldn’t smoke, I would be in bed by a certain time, I would be up every morning to do yoga, I would only eat certain foods. I was very, very controlled.”
She additionally shared her ideas on former Manchester United star Lee and the way she felt about his rejection. “I’m not annoyed with Lee. Don’t be silly,” she acknowledged.
“Rejection was a major fear and I faced it on national telly. I cried 27 times in 35 days on the island. I came home and my best friend said to me, ‘You used that as therapy didn’t you?’ The instant I got off the island it was like – the soap opera’s over, this is reality, there are more than six men in the world, and thank the Lord for that.”
Following the present, Jayne pursued her broadcasting profession and most lately hosted her personal programme on Virgin Radio. But now she’s again on the telly in Pilgrimage.
In February, she took to Instagram and posted: “So the word is out. I shared a journey back to my homeland with these beautiful souls. I have taken pilgrimage all over the world but I needed to go home to complete a circle. Cannot wait for you to see Pilgrimage BBC2 in April.”
Pilgrimage: The Road To Holy Island in on BBC Two on Sunday, April 5 at 9pm
