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Former BBC Breakfast star Louise Minchin allowed herself to be stung by a swarm of jellyfish to test her resilience for her 56th birthday


The former BBC Breakfast host has revealed that she marked her 56th birthday last weekend by allowing herself be stung by a swarm of jellyfish to test her resilience.

'I've just been swimming with jellyfish in the Scilly Isles,' she told the Daily Mail at the launch party for her novel, Isolation Island, at the Revery bar at the London Hilton on Park Lane. Ruth Chamberlain, Lead Aquarist at Sea Life London Aquarium, said Mauve Stinger jellyfish, known to produce a painful sting, 'are very toxic creatures'. Minchin at the launch of her debut novel Isolation Island at the London Hilton on Park Lane yesterday where she told the Daily Mail she had been swimming with jelly fish

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