BIG Brother icon Chanelle Hayes has showed off her nurse uniform after issuing an update on her ‘normal job’ away from the TV screens.
Chanelle rose to fame thanks to the iconic Channel 4 reality series in 2007 when she was just 19 years old.
The now 35 year old has since turned her back on reality TV in order to focus on one of her other dream life ambitions.
Chanelle has been training to become a qualified nurse and hopes to take on the career full-time upon her final qualifications next year.
She previously confessed to taking on the ‘normal job’ during a chat with The Sun in 2021.
Now, she has shared a snap with her Instagram followers posing in her uniform as part of her studies and training.
She also shared an image of her recent stay in hospital where she thanked her fellow nurses for all they do.
Chanelle shared the post in support of International Nurses Day.
She beamed as she sat behind her laptop as ‘Student Nurse’ could be seen emblazoned over her shirt.
The Big Brother star captioned the image: “I’ve been a (student) nurse and a patient this year. It’s interesting seeing things from both sides of the nursing station.
“Nursing is like being a mum: one of the most hard, yet most rewarding jobs on the planet.
“Not much longer now and then I will be qualified.”
She was flooded with supportive comments who praised the former TV star for pursing a new worthy career.
One fan said: “Total respect and 100% good luck, your amazing keep up the amazing hard work x.”
Another added: “Well done gal, not easy running home and family aaand studying, u will look back and wonder how you managed !! All well worth the effort and hard work, its the carer in you gal.”
As a third shared: “Well done! Know a few amazing nurses, you’re appreciated so much! x”
Chanelle has shed an impressive amount of weight over the years and lost nine stone after going under the knife to overcome binge eating.
The former Big Brother star lost loads of weight after undergoing a gastric sleeve operation in the summer of 2020.
Speaking recently about her struggles on Secure The Insecure podcast, she said: “I was in a really bad place with my eating.
“Other people who haven’t experienced food addiction or the cycles of unhealthy eating and binge eating disorders would be like ‘oh my god, it’s some biscuits calm down. We all have some biscuits every now and again like chill out’.
“But if that was alcohol or if that was heroin or some sort of drugs, and you just had one little bit of it, you would know for sure that that is your break in your sobriety.”
