Going head Ovo heels

STAR WRITER OFF TO FLIER AS SHE JOINS CIRQUE DU SOLEIL ACROBATS

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WE'VE all done it. You're watching an acrobat tumbling through the air in an outlandish costume and you think: "I bet I could do that.

But it takes a special woman - like Daily Star action correspondent JULIA KUTTNER - to test that theory.

Here she dresses up like a giant cricket to join the Cirque du Soleil acrobats in Ovo at London's Royal Albert Hall...

AFTER years of swerving team sports and anything involving coordination, I decided it was time to confront a new challenge.

Normally new year's resolutions revolve around denial - giving things up. But this year, I decided to do the opposite. I vowed to start saying "yes" a lot more.

"Yes" to flying through the air like an acrobat.

"Yes" to training with Cirque du Soleil's Ovo performers.

But walking up to the Royal Albert Hall in swanky Kensington, it begins to sink in what I've actually said yes to. So many big names have performed here - rock stars, the Proms, even wrestling.

Inside, the stage is lit for rehearsals. Acrobats - including young British world champion tumbler Ramarni Levena, 20 - are tearing across the circular stage at astonishing speed, spinning midair as if gravity doesn't apply to them.