'I love exercise-it isn't a fad for me'

Lisa Snowdon chats This Morning, career highlights and her fitness mission to get Britain moving

- ELLIE KIRWIN-JONES

From modelling in Milan in the 90s and becoming the face of Kellogg’s cereal, to winning Celebrity MasterChef and hosting her own radio breakfast show, Lisa Snowdon really is someone who has done it all.

And now Lisa, 51, is on our screens again for This Morning, fronting regular women’s health and fashion segments.

“I’ve literally just got into a cab after doing This Morning. Can you hear me?” she asks us on the phone, as she explains her hectic morning with ITV. “It was a busy one, but I enjoy it. I’d rather say productive than busy. Busy feels too negative for me.”

Engaged to George Smart, 42, Lisa is evidently loved-up with her man after they rekindled their romance in 2015. She previously shared, “He’s the most supportive person.”

But the presenter’s other major relationship is with her body image and she tells to us about learning how to stand up for herself in modelling when she was told to lose weight.

“It definitely didn’t give me bad confidence issues with my body. If anything, I felt more confident within myself to be like, ‘No, this is my body.’ I learnt how to say no,” says Lisa.

Here, Lisa talks to new about listening to what your body is telling you as she looks back on the “tricky times” as a model in the 90s and explains why, for her, fitness is key…