Javine Hylton, the 2005 UK entrant at the Eurovision Song Contest is Kyiv, has been crowned the female winner of TV sports challenge The Games, which sees celebrity contestants battle against each other in several gruelling competitive sports.
Javine won six out of the nine events of the Olympic-style competition, including hurdles, gym floor, swimming and the 100m sprint. She calls her win “a dream come true” after three months of intensive training with former Olympic athletes and professional coaches such as Roger Black and Sally Gunnell.
The win comes after what must have been a tough year for the former Popstars : the rivals contestant, who suffered disappointment at last year's Eurovision Song Contest with a 22nd placing, and more recently appeared in a London court for driving offences. Javine will now have another chance to continue her winning streak as she proceeds, as one of the top three men and women athletes from this year's show, to compete against the winners of previous years on a show airing soon on British TV channel Channel 4.
Jade Jones, a former member of boyband Damage and an ex-boyfriend of Spice Girl Emma Bunton, was Javine's male counterpart in victory at the end of the final of The Games.
