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Fearne Cotton says she wouldn’t return to live TV or radio “for any money in the world”

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Radio 1 presenter has also worked on CITV, CBBC, Top of the Pops, Celebrity Juice, and Love Island. She announced she had quit the BBC back in 2015, which she later revealed was because “it was literally ruining my mind.” Cotton now presents her own chart-topping wellbeing podcast called Happy Place.Now, in a new interview with The Times, Cotton has opened up about the reasons why she left the entertainment industry, citing her anxiety as one reason. “I’d get a week down the line and go, ‘I feel ill — I can’t do this,’” she shared.

She also elaborated on her panic attacks, adding: “I got to the point where I just thought, ‘Why am I doing this to myself? Am I that desperate to be seen or heard?’”Cotton continued, saying “I’ve learnt that I couldn’t do live radio or TV today for any money in the world.

The thought of going on to someone else’s platform [with] that level of risk and judgment, and that element of the unknown? My nervous system can’t take it — it’s absolutely shot.

Putting myself in that is like putting me in a pit of lions.”She added: “All my mental health lows are because of my job. Nothing else.

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