“It was the crew that marked you, and that’s the only time I got four 10s,” Kirkwood said.
At the top of the set’s illuminated stairs she would forget her steps.
Kirkwood said: “I would stand there and say, ‘Pasha, I can’t remember how this starts’.
“And he’d say, ‘you’ll be fine’. I would say, ‘seriously, Pasha, I can’t remember how it starts. Can we just quickly run through it?’. [And he would say] ‘You’ll be fine’.
“And so we would start, and he would drag me around the dance floor, and we would get through it somehow.
“But it was terrifying, but the relief when you had done it.”
While at the top of the stairs she would look for an escape.
“You’re looking for the nearest fire exit, because you’re thinking, I’m out of here,” Kirkwood said.
One reality show she had no plan to be on is I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!
Asked by an audience member whether she would go into the jungle she said: “When you see the snakes around their heads, I think I would have a heart attack.”
Race Across the World held more appeal. She told Williams: “If we started in Singapore, we’d go straight to Raffles, have a few cocktails, and we’d be on the next plane home.”
Weather, she said, was “in the back window”, though she said she had a couple of presenting jobs coming up which she could not talk about.