Jan 17 2009
my boobs have become rippled. I don’t know if it’s from the show, but it’s given me an excuse to have more plastic surgery.
“My first boob job took me from a 32AA to a 32C, but as soon as I woke up I knew they weren’t big enough.
“So I went up to a 32E. Now I’d like to go a little bit bigger, maybe to an F-cup.
“I’m not going to do a Jordan and keep having more operations, but I am going to have injections for Botox and bigger lips.”
Helena, who is dating former Wolves footballer Michael McIndoe, now with Bristol City, also auditioned for Big Brother in 2005 wearing a skimpy outfit. She failed to get through, but tried again this year.
She applied to take part in Total Wipeout when she heard it was being made in Argentina. “I don’t think any of us would have done it if it had been Blackpool!” she laughs.
Helena got through the first round, in which contestants hurl themselves down a slippery slide and then try to walk across a set of Topple Towers to avoid the mud. They negotiate a wall from which boxing gloves shoot out to knock them over before trying to bounce over four giant balls.
She was one of 12 to survive all that, only to be defeated by the Sweeper, in which contestants have to balance on the top of a pole and leap into the air as a spinning bar speeds towards them.
“I go to the gym every day and I’m pretty fit, but I found it so much tougher than I imagined,” says Helena of her Total Wipeout experience.
“The mud is so thick, it really wears you out struggling to get out of it. Plus, they put Vaseline on the obstacles so it’s harder to climb up and across things.
“Halfway through I really thought I couldn’t go on. I thought I was having an asthma attack because I couldn’t breathe – and I don’t get asthma.
“My boyfriend said ‘It looks easy, I could do that’, but I said ‘You really couldn’t!’”