'I’m not going to grow old gracefully': Josie Gibson embarks on year of health ahead of 40th birthday

Josie Gibson says she is treating herself to a “new body” ahead of her milestone birthday next year.

The This Morning presenter, 39, is excited about turning 40 and sees it as a chance to “invest in myself”.

Speaking to the Standard in partnership with Yoplait, she explained: “I’m throwing everything at myself, I’m going to go all out and I’m not going to grow old gracefully.

“I’ve been in the gym every day, I’ve been running 3k every day and then doing weights. I want to treat myself to a new body for 40 and just doing everything I want to do. But I’m bit like that anyway.”

She’s also manifesting big things for herself career-wise.

Josie Gibson has been a regular face on This Morning since 2019 (ITV)

“I would like to be the UK version of Ricki Lake, I’m putting it out there,” she offered up to the universe.

“I love it at This Morning. I’m proud of being able to host one of the biggest daytime shows in the UK and have a really good time while doing.

“I want to stick with This Morning, I have such a good time there and they are like a family to me and I get to do things that I would never dream of doing in a million years. It’s so good because I’m an all-rounder there, I can do a bit of everything.”

A natural people person, one of the former I’m A Celebrity star’s favourite elements of her job is interviewing people.

“I think Paul Rudd is my absolutely favourite,” she said when asked about who her favourite celebrity interviewee has been to-date, adding: “He’s so nice, just such a lovely guy.

Josie Gibson says Ant-Man star Paul Rudd is up there as one of her favourite interviews (PA Wire)

“Jennifer Aniston was cool, she was really cool actually. You know when you don’t want to meet your heroes sometimes but she was better than I could have ever imagined.”

While the likes of female comedy stars such as Dawn French, Joanna Lumley and Kathy Burke would top the Gloucestershire personality’s dream list of people to sit down with, she says she actually prefers interviewing people who are not celebs.

“I like interviewing the normal people, that’s where I think I excel,” she mused. “People who have got a story to tell, but they are just like us. I like people I think everyone has got a story to tell and everyone’s beautifully unique.”

Adding: “I like the nitty gritty so I’d like to interview someone who is quite controversial.”

Away from the cameras, Gibson juggles being a single parent to five-year-old son Reggie.

Josie Gibson recently got to work with her son Reggie on a campaign with Yoplait (Joe Pepler/PinPep)

She recently got the chance to work with Reggie on a campaign with Yoplait to highlight the dairy deficit in children’s diets.

According to new research, the past decade has seen children’s calcium intake fall significantly, resulting in just under a fifth of four to 10-year-olds now clinically deficient in vitamin D.

As a result, the findings claim that bone health diseases, such as rickets, are resurfacing again for the first time since the 1950s.

The two can be seen sporting matching yogurt moustaches in the adorable photoshoot pictures.

“He loved it because he was eating Frubes every five minutes so he was in his element,” she smiled.

Josie Gibson said son Reggie (pictured) was in his element doing the campaign with her (Joe Pepler/PinPep)

Gibson was first catapulted into the limelight when she won the eleventh series of Big Brother back in 2011.

She originally joined This Morning in 2019 as a competition announcer before being promoted to a presenter in 2021 and hasn’t looked back since.

Asked what her son thinks of what she does for a living, Gibson replied: “I went into TV and it’s amazing but because he has always grown up around it all, I don’t think he gets the same buzz as me.

“I feel like I don’t impress him, but maybe secretly I do!”

Josie Gibson and son Reggie are on a mission with Yoplait to get kids eating more yoghurt again as research shows kids are swapping yoghurt for more sugary foods like biscuits and sweets.

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