Alex Scott and Vicky Pattison wore playful red noses backstage at The One Show after returning from their Artic adventure for Comic Relief.
The sports pundit, 39, and the TV personality, 36, were all smiles after their interview about the charity’s coldest ever challenge.
The pair, alongside Laura Whitmore and Sara Davies, took on the Snow Going Back challenge on February 19, trekking 50km across the Artic Circle over the course of four days.
Travelling across the icy location, which is usually a training spot for the British Special Forces, the four women walked, fat-biked and even skied to reach their goal.
Raising money for those struggling in Britain and beyond, Vicky and Alex divulged the ins and outs of the ‘ultimate’ and ‘gruelling’ fundraising task to The One Show hosts Lauren Laverne and Jermaine Jenas.
Alex Scott and Vicky Pattison wore playful red noses backstage at The One Show after returning from their Artic adventure for Comic Relief
The women, alongside Laura Whitmore and Sara Davies, took on the Snow Going Back challenge, trekking an eye-watering 50km across the Artic Circle over the course of four days (left to right: Laura Whitmore, Sara Davies, Alex Scott and Vicky Pattison)
Alex, who sent an update to the talk show whilst taking on sub-zero temperatures, said: ‘It was gruelling, that’s why I remember sending the message thinking you (Jermaine) and Alex most probably be laughing at me.
‘You know I hate the cold and it’s so hard to describe, isn’t it Vicky? How actually cold it was.
‘So sleeping in a tent at night trying to survive that way with no heat, pulling a sledge, the fat biking and everything – it was the ultimate challenge.’
Sharing how the team spirit pulled them through the arduous journey, Alex at one point carried her teammates supplies to help lighten the load.
‘I think in that moment, I was like okay I know physically I am strong so I can take some of the load now,’ said the presenter.
Explaining that Sara and Vicky kept camp morale up beat, she added: ‘We all had different strengths.’
‘Everyone was pulling through at all different moments throughout it and I think that was just so inspiring being part of this group.
‘All of us knowing that we are doing it for the bigger cause and no one was slacking at all. Actually we were all trying to do more for each other.’
Alex (left) told One Show hosts: ‘Sleeping in a tent at night trying to survive that way with no heat, pulling a sledge, the fat biking and everything – it was the ultimate challenge’
Chatting with Lauren Laverne and Jermaine Jenas (pictured) Vicky said the sports commentator was being ‘so humble’, describing her as a ‘weapon’
Vicky also shared their hilarious bonding moment, quipping: ‘I had Alex’s toe in my armpit within 24 minutes of being there’
Vicky added: ‘She’s a real weapon, she is being so modest. The way she pulled them sleds some days, without her I don’t know if we would have got through.’
Reflecting on how the all woman squad bonded, Vicky hilariously quipped: ‘I had Alex’s toe in my armpit within 24 minutes of being there.’
The giggling sports presenter chimed in: ‘That’s how you keep warm because you could potentially – because its that cold – lose your fingers and toes.
‘So you need to actually be as a team and help each other through, so that was our first bonding moment.’
Part of the money raised during their treacherous challenge will be going to charities like Hebburn Helps Foodbank in South Tyneside – not far where Vicky is from.
The reality TV star revealed that she learnt some harrowing statistics while visiting the food bank a stone throw away from her home a day before embarking on the icy adventure.
‘Three out of four people who visit food banks are going to be women and that’s because of things like 65 per cent of chores always fall to women in the household,’ she said.
‘Raising children, looking after a household – it’s traditionally women’s job so subsequently all the pressure falls on them.
‘So not only were we the first ever Comic Relief all female challenge, we were girls doing it for girls and that felt really important.’
Snow Going Back Comic Relief v The Artic airs next Monday at 9pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
Part of the money raised will be going to a food bank near to Vicky’s home, an issue which disproportionately affects women
Pressing the importance of their all woman squad, Vicky said: ‘We were girls doing it for girls’ (pictured: Sara Davies)
