Michelle Marsh (CelebAir) Interview

Starting on Tuesday 2nd September 2008, ITV2 will be taking to the skies with the brand new show, CelebAir; with a real plane, flying to real places, staffed by real celebrities!

In this new eight-part series, 11 celebrities will take on a range of jobs on the ground and in the air to battle it out ultimately to become CelebAir’s star employee and win thousands of pounds for the charity of their choice.

After winning a modelling competition through a tabloid newspaper, she was advised by the photographer that she should have a go at glamour modelling. She requested the blessing of her parents as she wouldn’t have done it without their support. Michelle has been a model in the glamour world for five years now and believes she is now considered ‘ancient’ in the industry. She really wants her music career to take off, but doesn’t intend to fully turn her back on the glamour world. Michelle is married to St Mirren F.C. footballer Will Haining and she gave birth to her first child, daughter Maddison, in 2007.


Favourite holiday destination?

Las Vegas. I went there on my honeymoon and it was brilliant. We are going again next year, because when we went on our honeymoon I was pregnant and so I couldn’t really get drunk and enjoy everything.

Any holiday disasters?

We were going to Mallorca to do a shoot and the plane actually plummeted, twice. We saw the stewardess running towards the front of the plane and I started hyperventilating, I was petrified. It didn’t help that the photographer I was with said ‘Oh we can’t crash in water, I can’t swim!’

My three travel essentials?

Moisturiser to keep my tan, a good bikini because they’ll last you forever and a good sun tan lotion, because I hate burning.

If I could serve any famous passenger?

I would least like John McCririck to serve me. He held up a picture of me one day at the races and he seemed quite rude. Who would I most like to serve me? It would have to be Johnny Depp.

Am I a swimsuit or bikini girl?

Bikini - bigger tan.

My favourite holiday anthem?

Groove Jet with Sophie Ellis Bextor.

Am I excited or nervous?

I think I’m more nervous about flying. I am going to find it hard to keep my cool if there is a lot of turbulence. My sister-in-law has just trained as an air hostess and she loves doing short haul flights to Tenerife and Ibiza, because everybody’s so excited. So I’m looking forward to staying over in one of those places and having a good laugh and getting drunk with everyone.

How will I deal with awkward people?

I’ll put them in their place; tell them what they would least like to hear! I think I will struggle, because I don’t like people being cheeky. If someone was cheeky to one of my colleagues I think I’d really snap, especially if they were trying to help them.

How am I finding the training?

It is a lot harder than I imagined, I thought they would be a little bit easier on us. It has been one exam after the other and I’ve never revised so much, not even for my GCSE’s. It is really, really hard, but I think we’ve got a good group of people; there haven’t been that many mishaps.