With a second appearance on Pointless Celebrities 10 years after the first, former children's TV presenter Jayne Middlemiss is back on primetime BBC almost three decades after she first made her debut.
From the mid-1990s onwards Northumberland-born Middlemiss was almost never off TV aimed at younger adults and teens, she presented BBC Two's music show, The O-Zone with Jamie Theakston and went on to front Top of The Pops, the Smash Hits Awards and had a show on Radio 1.
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Now 51, Jayne has enjoyed various DJ-ing and TV presenting jobs since moving on from youth telly, with roles fronting Robot Wars, She's Gotta Have It and Holiday, but it was her appearance, and ultimate success on the first-ever series of ITV's Love Island which sticks in the mind for many.
It was 2005 when Jayne had an on-screen romance with footballer Lee Sharpe in the villa, then based in Fiji. In an interview shortly after the show the TV star shared what being on the show 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 told The Guardian. "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 also added that she used the experience as a sort of therapy, adding: "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."
Jayne, whose parents were a miner and a factory worker, was on the Love Island show with Calum Best, Paul Danan, Michael Greco from EastEnders, Rebecca Loos, Abi Titmuss and more. Her fellow winner was former Westlife bodyguard, Fran Cosgrave.
Not one to shy away from sharing her opinion or the odd swear-blooper on live TV, Jayne was a bit more lively than your average children TV presenter.
Back in 2007 she shared some funny memories from her celeb interviewing years and live TV.
"Courtney Love," she said. "Very challenging.
"I'll never forget it. She was late for the interview by hours.
"Eventually she walked in, let's just say full of the joys of spring, waving a boot round in my face saying: 'I've just been sent these by Prada! Do you like them?' Weird.
"I'd had to sign this big contract about endless things I wasn't allowed to mention. The only thing I could ask her about was the record.
"So I did and within seconds she said: 'These questions are boring. I'm far too intelligent for this. Ask me about Freud, ask me about Marx.'
"I just thought: 'You know what love? Why don't you just f*** off back up your own arse?'
"I'd love to interview Madonna. It would be scary but I like scary. What's the point of staying in your comfort zone?"
Live TV can definitely challenge that comfort zone and for Jayne and old pal Jamie Theakston, their first live job at Glastonbury almost proved more eventful than usual.
"When I was doing live TV for the first time I was at Glastonbury with Jamie Theakston. I finished my link and slightly mixed my words up. The camera panned away and I said: 'I really f***** that up,' not realising we were still on air.
"Another time, again at Glastonbury, Jamie and I were sitting having a fag and I said: 'Wouldn't it be funny if the feed went down and they cut back to us, like, now?'
"That exact moment it happened. We put our cigarettes out so quickly I was paranoid the bales of hay were going to go up in smoke.
"Then I got a fit of the giggles. It was awful, but strangely fun at the same time."
Yoga-lover Jayne is currently appearing on Virgin Radio and has recently made a documentary for the station about women in Britpop. You can keep up with her via her Twitter.
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