On the live stream on ITV2, Nancy returned from escorting Sophie/Natalie to the bridge for their BTT and said that Natalie was fine crossing the bridge.

Make up your own minds if her 'fears' are genuine.

Dya know what? ive been thinking exactly the same. if u were scared of crossing a bridge, u wouldnt exactly be reassured by a fella walking in front of u leading the way would you? id be even more scared with the extra weight of that person on it too.

Well I suppose that having a man a couple of feet in front would give you something to focus on.....

And if the bridge started to break, you might get a quickie in before you fell.

Fine? What does that mean?

I think Nancy would feel fine if the bridge was swaying around at 360 degrees. After all she flew out of a plane but Nats just rode a horse.

Nancy watched Natalie crossing the bridge to go for her BTT and said 'Natalie was fine' - as in OK, no probs, no worries and nothing to do with Nancy's feelings about crossing the bridge.

she even said nat was laughing as she crossed it, shes got brave all of a sudden

The cameras probably weren't on her.

She did seem fine when they showed footage of her crossing the bridge to get to the trial

EDIT: this could be the editorial wonder that is editing, ie changing something to make something/someone appear better/worse/different than they are.
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You're probably on to something there.

My thoughts as well.

i don't have many fears or phobias (not that i would want to do some of the disgusting things in the BTTs)

however, sometimes when walking over something i can see through, such as open staircases, boat docks, rope bridges, i can be fine, other times i just stop. i never know when it's going to happen, i can be striding out with no thought and then my legs stop working and i freeze. i don't feel particularly panicky and it even amuses me sometimes, but i need to be led off with my eyes close.

i'm not scared of heights, it's just this thing. so maybe it affects her in a similar way, although i do see she seems to be scared of lots of things

This has happened to me too and usually happens coming down spiral staircases or going up stairs that I can see through. As you say, your brain is saying "errr keep walking" but muscles on the backs of your calves lock and seem to be saying, "on your bike mate, Im staying put".

Sorry, but I disagree with the other part of your message. Natalie has never "frozen" with fear, which is what happens when you have the type of phobias she reckons she has.
John Fashnau was terrified of heights and he perspired and shook and froze to the point where even his larynx froze up and he couldnt speak, let alone scream for his Mum and make more noise than god knows what while teetering melodramatically on a rope bridge.

In fact, reading other posts on here, it looks like Natalie tripped across the rope bridge without a care in the world with Sophie leading the way. Now I know what Id prefer if I had to go across it. Being on my own, controlling the sway of it and stopping when I needed to. Two people on a rope bridge would make it wobble and sway all the more! So, in fact, the "trauma" should have been worse for Natalie.

As Fannanni points out - she wasnt traumatised because the cameras werent on her.

i know nancy said that nat was fine, but when sophie was being asked how they got on she said that the worst bit was watching nat go over the bridge, she said she was in a terrible state.
if that istrue then who was nancy watching...'cos sophie has no reason to lie about nat suffering. maybe, nancy is trying to stir up some trouble????

Hello - please be gentle with me 'cos I'm very new to this! I've watched reality tele for years with a mounting sense of disbelief that other people couldn't see how contrived/scripted/playing to the cameras it all was (but hooked all the same, shame on me) but now, thank you Natalie - you have achieved in 2 trials + oxygen what I have been trying to do for years. My work is done, but not by me!

AHHHH Well you should have come here a lot sooner
and your faith would have been restored before now

So I can see - I feel cheated in so many ways!

better late than never

and Welcome to DS forum

Oh come on everyone...is it not concievable that someone with a fear of heights would be afraid of that bridge...it's nearly the height of a tree for goodness sake!!!!!!

and we know how she's scared of those

kittylitter, i wasn't meaning to suggest that that is what happens with natalie - it patently isnt!

it was more by way of saying that sometimes you are fine with things, and other times it creeps up on you without you realising.

however, in my experience of true phobias, people do tend to have various responses but they are generally quiet ones. eg. stop and smile with a dazed look on your face (that's what i'm like), shake, sweat, go pale, even be quite bilious. however natalie seems to be extremely vocal which i agree, doesn't quite fit the usual profile of panic, more something an attention-seeking child would do

Maybe she felt more comfortable cos it was a girl with her.

And she went all girlie when the bloke was helping and became even more helpless.

Don't think I'd be too confident on a swaying rope bridge and I don't like heights but I'd still give it a go.

Seems to me Natalie can't get to grips with any of her fears and goes totally to pieces. She should have got some help with them first before going out there.

Because basically she is now getting on my nerves.

Brian got on my wick as well last night the big girls blouse. He totally lost the plot over the flies and was whining on for ages about very little. Soon as he lost it he wanted to go home. Typical pampered celebrity.

But up in my estimation goes Fran. Gets on with it and never complains. But still its its stretching things a bit calling him a celebrity.