Fatima Whitbread has been a public figure for 40 years, initially as a highly successful athlete and then through appearances on television shows such as I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! in which she finished third in 2011 and 2023.
Whitbread burst onto the scene in the early 1980s, winning bronze medals in the 1982 Commonwealth Games and 1984 Olympic Games. She went on to break the world record in 1986 – the first Briton to do so in a throwing event – and claim a gold medal at the 1987 World Championships and a silver medal at the 1988 Olympics. A shoulder injury forced her to retire from competing in 1992.
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