DJ Gemma Cairney is conserving every thing crossed she will not "break a leg" forward of the Sunday Mail Younger Scot Awards after a fall on Arthur's Seat pressured her to drag out of final 12 months's ceremony.
The Scottish-Jamaican broadcaster moved to Edinburgh final 12 months and may't wait to host this 12 months's younger individuals's Oscars.
Gemma, 37, stated: "I'm so filled with pleasure about internet hosting this 12 months's occasion and can be avoiding all mishaps forward of the ceremony.
"Three days after shifting to Scotland final 12 months I fell and broke my leg in three locations. I used to be strolling up Arthur's Seat within the rain. I slipped, tried to rise up too shortly and it turned a little bit of a crunchy catastrophe.
"I broke it in three locations and ended up in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary needing surgical procedure. I used to be in a moon boot for months - I could not fairly imagine it. I've climbed up Mount Kenya, cycled from London to Paris, travelled all around the world and I find yourself snapping my leg throughout a little bit dander up a hill - you could possibly not write it."
Gemma, whose mum Hazel was the daughter of Glaswegians Jim Cairney and Martha Cowie, stated: "Having the ability to get again within the Younger Scot Awards saddle is simply sensible. It is extra-special as there hasn't been a stay occasion for 2 years. I am unable to wait to see individuals's faces and be across the inspirational subsequent era.
"I sit up for listening to particular person tales as they're all the time very galvanising. Will probably be sensible to have fun their acts of heroism, group motion and activism in individual. I'll have to seek out one thing outrageous and ridiculous to put on to assist unfold the enjoyment."
The BBC Radio 6 Music presenter, whose boyfriend Cameron McAllister can also be of Scottish descent, stated: "How may I not get pleasure from residing in Edinburgh? It's endlessly pleasant and pleasing on the attention. I get to do wild swimming in Portobello and take walks up a mini-mountain in the course of a metropolis.
"We stay within the Meadows so there may be all the time a lot occurring proper outdoors our window. My dream is to arrange a lot of road events and switch Marchmont into the Notting Hill Carnival." Gemma added: "It makes my mum emotional that I'm again in Scotland. I simply want my grandad was nonetheless round. I spent my childhood visiting my grandparents in Glasgow and holidaying in Millport and, from the age of 19, I got here as much as Edinburgh each summer time for the pageant.
"In a dream world I'd like to stay off-grid in a shepherd's hut within the Highlands however I'm too busy to try this simply now however in the future…" Gemma is writing a e-book about influential however forgotten girls of historical past. She stated: "I needed to have fun unbelievable sturdy feminine icons, together with nurse Mary Seacole, who was Scottish-Jamaican like me. She was identified for her medical work in the course of the Crimean Warfare.
"Life is just too brief and we have to profit from it - that is why the Younger Scot Awards are so necessary. I am unable to wait to be part of them."
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