Gladiators actress Jet said she is getting married to a woman she met in a grocery store.
The TV star, whose real name is Diane Youdale, started the game show when she was 22 years old in 1992. Four years later, she had to leave because she hurt her neck.
Before the return of the popular show, the old stars are back in the spotlight, and Jet talked about what she’s been doing lately.
The 53-year-old actress just told how her fiance, Zoe, first asked her out in a sweet way. Now, she’s ready to walk down the aisle.
‘Just over a year ago, a gorgeous lady approached me in my local supermarket,’ she recalled.
‘And over a year later, we’re going to get married.
‘We are what we are. It doesn’t matter. And I don’t give a damn,’ she added while appearing on the Chillin’ with Ice podcast.
She then called Zoe over to the camera and introduced her to the world, while her husband joked that she was “embarrassed” because she “hadn’t done” her hair.
The former swimmer, who later went back to school to become a psychologist, said that a bad relationship in the North of England had “put her off relationships for life.”
Telling podcast host Lori Fetrick, who played Ice in American Gladiators, she said: ‘I’m safe and I’m loved and there’s no threat to me anymore and that’s what means the world to me.’
Lori, 60, who herself came out in 2008 added that in ‘today’s day and age, people are so accepting of everyone, and it doesn’t matter who you are because it’s a matter of who you are as a person’.
‘It shouldn’t matter who your partner is.’
Diane was in a relationship with James Crossley’s character, Hunter, when they were both on the hit TV show Gladiators, which ran from 1992 to 2000 but is now making a comeback on the BBC after 23 years.
Speaking last month, Diane talked about the scary moment that ended her time on the show.
‘My accident was on Pyramid, and I remember I had a contender – who I have met since then – who was a bit bigger, stronger and faster than me,’ she explained.
‘And I pushed off the pyramid with her, they like these aerial tackles because it’s good car crash TV, and I just remember landing here and my bottom was there and she was almost on top of me.
‘The impact of that hyperextension of the spine and her, and then I quickly flipped because I heard a crack.’
Soon after, she was taken to the hospital and told to rest her back in a brace. Over the next few weeks, she decided it was time to quit.
Gladiators returns to BBC later this year.
Source My Celebrity Life.
