JJ Chalmers may not look like a diva, but the Scottish TV presenter has candidly opened up about his physical and mental health - and revealed the one demand he now requests after his stint on Strictly Get the latest entertainment news sent straight to your inbox with our weekly Showbiz newsletter We have more newsletters Get the latest entertainment news sent straight to your inbox with our weekly Showbiz newsletter We have more newsletters JJ Chalmers has revealed the 'diva demand' he developed during his stint on Strictly Come Dancing. The Scottish TV presenter is currently hosting the Paris 2024 Olympics Games, but before his glitzy media career took off - JJ was in the Marines. In 2011, after being deployed out to Afghanistan - the 37-year-old suffered life-changing injuries after getting caught in a terrifying bomb explosion, almost losing an arm.
It took years of hard work and intensive rehab to recover from the blast, but in an interview with the Kilmarnock Standard earlier this year, JJ said his mental health was the worst it's ever been in 2023. "What I've realised is, in my ways, the issues are not about what happened to me when I got blown up," he said. READ MORE: JJ Chalmers 'felt like he was playing a character' amid Strictly criticism "I'm quite okay with what happened that day.
Actually, it's what happened because of that, and the decisions I've made along the way, and the way I've lived my life because of that." Describing the 2014 inaugural Invictus Games as.