Television presenter Carol Vorderman has revealed that she is "covered in burns" after tripping over on a treadmill… while naked.
The mathematician, famed for co-hosting Countdown, told her 334,000 followers on Twitter about her exercise disaster. Attempting to comfort another tweeter who had experienced a predictive text mishap, she confessed: "I fell off a treadmill running naked (don't ask). Now covered in burns and doctor's dressings!"
Vorderman said she was left with a twisted knee and had to return to the doctors, adding: "I don't think running is for me somehow."
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Asked why she was exercising in the nude by the Daily Telegraph and numerous other baffled tweeters, Vorderman said she had been "hot", although admitted that she had been wearing trainers and a knee strap (which had "saved the skin on one knee").
Vorderman, who has previously fronted her own exercise DVD, added that she wasn't sure nude treadmill running "will be an Olympic sport soon though".
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