‘Big Brother’ legend Ziggy Lichman has been living with fibromyalgia syndrome.
The 37-year-old hunk appeared in series eight of the reality TV show in 2007 and his romance with Chanelle Hayes in the house was one of the main talking points of that year.
Ziggy reunited with his ex-lover on ‘Loose Women’ on Wednesday (24.10.18) and during his interview revealed that he has been suffering with the long-term health condition which causes tiredness and pain all over the body ever since he went on a skiing trip and plummeted into some "rocks".
He said: "Unfortunately for me, we’ve never discussed this but I got diagnosed fibromyalgia. So I went on a skiing holiday and I hit rocks and the knock on effect was I got this. It was a really tough experience to have, it wears you down quite a lot."
Ziggy and Chanelle, 30, were dubbed the ‘Posh and Becks of reality TV’ when they were together, however, the pair’s relationship ended abruptly six months after the show’s finale.
Ziggy admitted they were "in love" once upon a time, whilst Chanelle thinks the hangers on around them at the time wrecked their romance.
He said: "I have no doubt we were in love. TV love obviously because we were sectioned into that situation … We didn’t even know if we were on or off, we genuinely cared for each other, I have no doubt we were in love, but we had people in our ear."
And Chanelle added: "There was so many people saying such different things to us, you had no idea what was true and what was not true.
"If we’d met in different circumstances perhaps. But I would have been a complete fish out of water in London. I’m from Wakefield, I love Yorkshire. So unless you [Ziggy] would have moved casually up to Yorkshire then I don’t think it would have worked, no."
Big Brother’s Ziggy Lichman living with fibromyalgia
