Facebook Pixel Nicky Buckly I'M DOING THIS FOR MUM' | New Idea - lifestyle - Read this story on Magzter.com
Go Unlimited with Magzter GOLD

Go Unlimited with Magzter GOLD

Get unlimited access to 10,000+ magazines, newspapers and Premium stories for just

$149.99
 
$74.99/Year

Try GOLD - Free

Nicky Buckly I'M DOING THIS FOR MUM'

New Idea

|

January 27, 2025

A NEED TO HELPTRUMPED ANYJUNGLE FEARS

- Melissa Field

Nicky Buckly  I'M DOING THIS FOR MUM'

Nicky Buckley admits that a stint on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! was the last thing she expected to be Nicky and Murray were teenage sweethearts. On her 2025 bingo card. “I’m still in disbelief that I agreed to go ahead with this,” Nicky tells New Idea from South Africa, just days before she headed into camp.

With a laugh, she adds: “I’m a girl who likes her coffee and nice sheets. What was I thinking?”

On a more serious note, Nicky, 59, explains why she’s really forgoing her creature comforts to raise awareness about ovarian cancer. Sadly, ‘You can get through anything’ she lost her mother, Joan, to the disease some 20 years ago.

“Mum was only a few years older than I am now and there were no detectable symptoms for her until it was too late,” the former Sale of the Century host explains. “I’m doing [the show] for Mum.”

imageAs there can often be a genetic link to ovarian cancer, Nicky voluntarily opted to have a full hysterectomy last year.

MORE STORIES FROM New Idea

Listen

Translate

Share

-
+

Change font size