One former Olympian who has appeared on everything from BBC Question Time to Dancing on Ice faced financial ruin and couldn’t even afford to heat her home after a row over trans rights. Sharron Davies, former Olympic swimmer and Gladiators star, argued that allowing trans women to compete in women’s sport disadvantages cisgender women.
After making her controversial comments, Davies said her television contracts were all pulled, and she was forced to live on inheritance left to her by her mother. She told the Mail: “I’m lucky in that I had had a good career, so I didn’t have a huge mortgage, but now I live in a lovely Georgian house which I can’t afford to heat because my heating bills have gone mental like everyone else’s. I have been sitting here in my electric blanket in the kitchen today.
“But I learned a long time ago that money doesn’t bring happiness. What I am doing now gives me a sense of purpose.”
She added that she has lost “ten years of work” and “lost a fortune”.
It comes after Sharron confessed she earned “nothing” from her swimming career – “not a single, solitary penny”.
But by the time she was working in TV, she was earning the big bucks, and admitted she was paid more than £100,000 for her stint on Big Breakfast in 1996. Her best financial year was 1995, when she was on Gladiators as Amazon.
“I won’t reveal how much money I made that year, but obviously it was more than £100,000,” she told the Mail.
She even treated herself to a £60,000 Porsche 911 as nobody would “expect her to turn up [to an event] in an £800 banger or a Ford Fiesta.”
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