Sinitta has admitted that she nearly cried on live TV after being voted off first on ITV’s Dancing on Ice.

The singer who is best known for being Simon Cowell’s pal, also revealed that her reaction suprised her, as sh thought she would be much more composed.

She told Rte: “It was a disaster! I was gutted. I nearly cried on live TV.

“And you know, having worked in reality television for six years now, I thought I would have known better than anyone ‘look it’s just a show, it’s not the end of the world’ but I stood up there and I really wanted to cry because you’ve put so much into it and you start projecting forward about what you’re going to do next week and how you’re going to improve and then it’s chopped down before you get to realise your full potential.

She explained: “There’s so much commitment because that kind of conditions you to tune into it, to be so skate-focused. So I’m still skating now because I’d made this commitment in my mind, you know, mentally, physically, emotionally. I am going to be skating, hopefully, for the next two or three months. And so to suddenly be brought out, I thought I was safe as well. Because of the judges’ votes I was fourth on the thing so I thought ‘Well, I’m staying in the middle.

“There’s three people above me, there’s three people below me’ and I was thinking ‘I actually think I can improve this, at least to second place, if I really work hard’ so to be out was like ‘aw’.

“I hadn’t even contemplated that. I thought I was safe.”