Get ready to be shocked as reality show suckers Iain Stables and Candy Lane tell the gossip mags how they were tricked into taking part in a brutal Jamaican military training camp.

The controversial radio DJ and Dancing with the Stars host thought they were spending a week relaxing in Jamaica, but instead found themselves being whipped into shape as part of TV2’s reality show Shock Treatment.

Stables - a “shock jock” who refused orders to shave his head and quit the show after one night following several tantrums and a punishing early morning training regime - tells Woman’s Day he is still in shock after his early exit.

If you want something more shocking than that, stick a knife in a wall socket.

“After being asked for the fifth time if I wanted to buy some balls (by my trainer), I decided, no, and said, ‘Yeah, I quit’,” Iain tells WD.

“Within 10 seconds I said, No, I don’t quit … but because I’d said those magic words, they wouldn’t let me continue.”

Shame, Iain. You probably missed out on a great deal for some cheap ‘balls’.

Candy, a ballroom dancer who was involved in a tense boat chase and drug bust after Iain’s sudden departure, found the experience so exhausting she refused to sleep on her bed because it took too long to make it up to Army standard.

She tells New Idea she was so tired one night she mistakenly used the muscle relaxant Deap Heat to brush her teeth.

“I’d said the roof of my mouth was the only part of me that didn’t hurt, but I ended up putting it on there as well as the rest of my body,” Candy says.

That’ll put some extra shine on those sparklers.

Elsewhere, TV3 newsreader Carolyn Robinson says her most embarrassing on-air gaffe came during a recent weekend bulletin.

“I wasn’t long back from maternity leave and sort of forgot I was in the studio and not a viewer sitting on the couch,” she tells NI.

“There was an item I found really interesting and when it ended I was caught staring at the TV monitor saying, ‘Wow, wow, isn’t that amazing’ or something insightful like that.”

As long as it wasn’t a story on Josef Fritzell, Carolyn, you’re in the clear.

Other stars who made the headlines:

* Former Shortland Street star Blair Strang says he struggled at first to play a convincing homosexual in his new stage show, Whero’s New Net. “When we first hugged, we would hug or kiss leaving lots of space,” Blair tells WW. “I don’t even think about it anymore. I’m sort of used to it. I don’t intend getting too used to it, though.”

* Wheel of Fortune letter turner Sonia Gray says she was compared to coffee brands during her days as a model in South Africa. ”As a cappuccino, I was in hot demand,” she tells WW. ”I was a bit shocked to be pigeonholed as a type of coffee, but before long if a model booker asked ‘Are there any cappuccinos here?’ I was the first with my hand up.” Does that make Keira Knightley a flat white, then?

* Fans of Kiwi actress Anna Paquin should check out her new show, the vampire series True Blood. “My wardrobe is awesome,” she tells WD. “I’m practically naked the entire time. I’ve got a lot of tiny shorts to wear around on set. It’s weird. You feel like you’re wearing underwear.” Sounds like a show for guys, then.

Finally, the quote of the week comes from Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria, who has found a new way to combat those pesky pregnancy rumours: “I’m not pregnant, I’m fat”.

If only Kirsty Alley could use the same excuse.

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