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Gladiators legend Jet has opened up about her 10 year stalking ordeal as she revealed she it got so serious she had to go to the police.
Jet, whose real name is Diane Youdale, starred on the original Gladiators’ first four seasons from 1992-1995.
However the success of the show launched Diane into the limelight, and brought with it unwanted attention.
Speaking candidly about her stalker ordeal, Diane told The Daily Star Sunday: ‘I’ve been stalked in the past 10 years by a couple of people. They took a step beyond the pale and that’s not fun.’
She added: ‘When you have a stalker, you don’t know what step they’ll take next. You have to take it seriously.
‘It has been an issue for the police. I have to be guarded. Everyone is entitled to get on with their life in peace.’
Gladiator legend Jet has said she has suffered a 10 year stalking ordeal as she revealed it got so serious she was forced to get the police involved (pictured on Gladiators in 1995)
Diane admitted that she perhaps would have said no to the show if she knew how big it would get.
But ultimately she has had to deal with the attention it has brought and tried to live as private a life as possible.
The star now works as a psychotherapist, counsellor and choreographer.
Last year Diane admitted during an interview with the Daily Mail that she had attacked her ex wife Zoe Gilbert after feeling ‘bullied’ during their year-long marriage.
Diane spoke out on her short-lived married to teacher Zoe, who she wed during an intimate ceremony in July 2023, after she proposed just four months into their relationship.
Diane’s relationship with Zoe was her first public romance with a woman and the star had previously gushed that she ‘just knew’ she was the one for her days after their meeting in a supermarket.
But the nineties pin-up admitted she ‘snapped’ during an incident in 2023 after claiming she was ‘pushed over the edge’.
The former TV star said the pair’s relationship reached a climatic point when Diane ‘pressed on her chest three times’ after Zoe had fallen over the back of a sofa during a vicious row.
Police were called to the property they shared in the North East and Diane was spoken to, but not arrested, and it proved to be the final straw for the couple a matter of weeks after they tied the knot in an intimate ceremony.
Diane also accused teacher Zoe of turning her own family against her.
She even believes their chance meeting in supermarket Tesco, when they first became acquainted, was actually a premeditated move by Zoe.
Super-fit Diane said she became ‘suicidal’ as her marriage crumbled, adding: ‘She never loved me… I was hoodwinked.’
She continued: ‘I was bait, I feel baited, I feel like I was chased by a wolf. I was absolutely played and now she’s trying to make herself famous because of it.
‘I am sickened to the core by her allegations. She wants to bring me down and dance on my grave.’
Describing how their relationship turned violent, Diane said: ‘Eventually, I snapped.
She explained: ‘When you have a stalker, you don’t know what step they’ll take next. You have to take it seriously’ (pictured in 2017)
‘She fell over the back of the sofa. I pressed on her chest three times firmly and I said, “stop this now.” I can’t remember what happened then. The next thing I knew I was being led out by the police.
‘The living room was an absolute mess, there was coffee up the walls, writing all over the walls. She is claiming that I did all that, but I didn’t. I’m unsure what level of amnesia I must have had to block it out.’
The incident, which took place in 2023, happened at Zoe’s home where Diane lived until the couple ended their relationship.
She claims the nature of their romance made her feel so low that she contemplated ending her life.
The Daily Mail contacted Zoe Gilbert for comment at the time.