A Gary Barlow superfan has lost an incredible 11st after a selfie with the pop star left her horrified by her 22st 9lb figure. Hellen Ellis, 40, from Rowley Regis, West Midlands, once ate 14 packets of cheese and onion crisps per day, but says she never realised how big she was until she took a photograph with the former Take That singer at his ‘Since I saw You Last’ tour in April 2014. Shocked into action by the unflattering selfie, the size 30 supermarket sales assistant underwent a gastric bypass and has dropped an astonishing nine dress sizes to a size 12.
Pint- size Maci Winters only has one wish this Christmas - to be as tall as the other boys and girls on the school playground .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
A woman has revealed how she almost died after she developed sepsis from a cold .
LYING back in the snow, these two polar bears share a cuddle as they call time out on playtime .
TENNIS was a game made for three according to the first Victorian rule book .
A proud stag attempts to impress the females by donning an enormous fern headdress in London's Bushy Park .
A kingfisher’s bright blue and orange feathers glisten in the sunlight as the bird dives into a lake .
THE UK’S STRONGEST SCHOOLGIRL attributes her success to the bendy-body condition that once left her body wracked in pain .
A SERENE turquoise glow glimmers from underneath these powerful icebergs .
A man who spent 30 minutes impaled on iron railings after attempting to scale an 8ft fence has told of his agonising ordeal - and how he suffered a similar mishap as a child .
FIFTEEEN years after it was closed pictures by a British teacher show the calamity Hong Kong airport that was closed for being too dangerous .