'I am spent!' Davina McCall struggles on after collapsing during Sport Relief challenge
IT WAS just yesterday that Davina McCall was pictured being dragged out of the water during her Sport Relief challenge with the worry of hypothermia.
But the TV presenter has told fans not to worry and that she was simply "cold" before insisting she's ready to take on the rest of her 500-mile challenge.
Fans were left concerned for the star's welfare after she was seen clearly distressed and barely able to breathe after swimming through a lake in Windermere.
She had to cling to a kayak for the final stages and, when she eventually reached her target, her limp body was plucked from the water and she had to be carried to a nearby hotel to warm up.
But, after a stint in the hotel, she thanked fans who were waiting outide and insisted that she was okay.
"I’m completely fine, I was just cold! I’ve warmed up now, I’ve had a nice bath and I’m ready to get on the bike," she said before getting back not he saddle for the last part of her journey yesterday.
However, taking to the sofa of the BBC Breakfast studios this morning, the 46-year-old said it is quite simply the thought of her children getting her through and she is already "spent."
"I've got to get to my children by Friday or I'm going to expire, so that's my focus. It's not even like they're trying to make me do it - I've just got to get to the kids," she said.
And after already completing a short stint on the bike through Lancashire this morning, she added: "Interestingly today feels really hard. I think I spent a lot of energy yesterday. I haven't even cycled that far this morning and I'm actually spent already. Today is going to be much much tougher than I thought."
Recalling the agony of her swim in the 5C (41F) lake, accompanied by her trainer, Professor Greg Whyte, she said: "I was pretty scared. I was just very, very tired and I had nothing.
"We just got so cold and it was just like somebody was sitting on my chest and I couldn't breathe. I had perfected this amazing front crawl across three months - I was really good at it and then I got in the cold water and it felt like someone was sitting on my chest and I just couldn't breathe, so I couldn't put my head in the water to turn it up to breathe.
"And I literally ended up doggy-paddling across Windermere which took a lot longer than we all thought. Greg swam it with me and we were both getting quite cold and I was really suffering at the end."
After completing it she told how thoughts of her half-sister Caroline Baday - who died from cancer in 2012 - had pulled her through.
McCall said: "I imagined my sister holding me and pulling me through it."
She had also hoped for divine intervention to get her through, admitting: "I got so desperate I looked up to God - if there was anyone up there I needed their help."
The Million Pound Drop host is aiming to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds with her BT Sport Relief Challenge: Davina - Beyond Breaking Point.
Today she is cycling from Accrington to Glossop, and then joining the Pennine Way to run a section of the route until she reaches Edale in Derbyshire.