Fearne Cotton has opened up about how she suffers anxiety being on live TV and says the pressure of "saying the right thing" is "not a pressure that I can handle". The presenter revealed during an interview on BBC Breakfast on Wednesday, May 11 that she does miss “bits” of the TV industry but admitted the “pressure” was too much now.
Speaking to presenters Dan Walker and Sally Nugent, the 40-year-old TV and radio star said: “I guess as you just grow older… I started TV when I was 15, so I’ve done a long slog of it. And my perspective on life changed, my ideas changed, my set of values changed."
The former Radio 1 DJ, who was on the show to talk about her Happy Place festival, said she did not step into the BBC Breakfast studio calmly on Wednesday, May 11, adding: “Considering I did so much live TV as a kid that has sort of been annihilated and I do have quite a lot of anxiety stepping into something like this. Knowing that it’s live, people are going to judge, that cancel culture exists and that people are pointing fingers.”
