The name for the show has changed again, and now seems to be called ‘The Truth about Tanning’. Here is a preview clip of Nicola in an operating room!

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Nicola recently filmed a brand new documentary for BBC3 all about the dangers of fake-tanning and sun beds. From being a big fan of fake tanning herself, Nicola has grown to embrace her natural complexion.

She says, ‘The subject of tanning is something that I am very passionate about. I was once in a place where, as stupid as it sounds, if I had a tan I felt like I fitted in just a bit more. I want to delve deeper and ask why people do it and show the extreme and sometimes fatal lengths people will go to.’

Nicola will meet young women whose love of tanning is an addiction, who use sunbeds 4-5 times a week. She’ll meet girls in their early teens who, like her when she was young, experience the pressures from their peers to conform and be tanned.

She will also reveal how she has overcome her early reliance on fake tan and her gradual sense of confidence in her own skin.

As part of the show Nicola will be meeting the top dermatologists and cancer experts who will reveal the risks tan addicts are exposing themselves to. Nicola’s journey will take her into the hospital wards where some of the estimated 120 under 40s who die from skin cancer each year are treated. Skin cancer is the most common cancer in under 35s in the UK.

Check out a High Quality promotional shot in the gallery

Source: Myspace

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Girls Aloud star Nicola Roberts has landed her own TV show where she will explore how far people will go to get a tan.

The pale singer, 24, who admits to being a ‘tanorexic’ in the past, will discover the dangers folk face by wanting to be orange – as shown in this picture.

She said: “I tried to cover up my insecurities by turning into a big-time tanorexic. I had every product from every range. I needed my fix.”

The show will air on BBC3 this spring.

Source: Daily Star

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Girls Aloud star Nicola Roberts is following in the footsteps of bandmate Cheryl Cole by landing her own TV show.

But unlike Chezza’s light entertainment fodder, Nic’s new programme will be ultra-serious.

She is shedding light on the dangerous world of “tanorexics” – women who are addicted to tanning products. The term – coined from anorexia – applies to sufferers who constantly think they look too pale.

Nicola, who battled the condition it in the past, will lift the lid on the issue in a BBC3 film.

The star, 24, has previously admitted: “I tried to cover up my insecurities by turning into a big-time tanorexic.

“I had every product from every range. It filled a shelf in my bathroom and no matter how exhausted I was, I needed my fix.”

Source: The Sun

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