Kate brawler

TV babes Kate Lawler and Annabel Croft are getting hot under the collar ahead of the start of the glamorous grapple-fest, Celebrity Wrestling.

10:45 07 February 2005

TV babes Kate Lawler and Annabel Croft are getting hot under the collar ahead of the start of the glamorous grapple-fest, Celebrity Wrestling.

Former RI:SE presenter Kate and Treasure Hunt action girl Annabel are both competing in the ITV show, but are reported to have become bitter rivals in their bids to boost their flagging TV careers.

Both are currently out of work and see the show, which will pit six men and six women against each other in a Gladiators style competition, as the perfect opportunity to get their faces back in the public domain.

And that determination has apparently led to the girls saving their most aggressive manoeuvres for each other in practice.

"Kate and Annabel are extremely competitive and it looks like a battle between the two," a show source told the Daily Star.

"They're in the same training team but both want to win and see each other as their main competitors.

"There are some who would swear that when Kate and Annabel fight each other, they go over the top and pin each other down harder than they would with the others. The girls deny it of course but people are talking about it."

Model Victoria Silvstedt, Liberty X star Michelle Heaton and Princess Diana's former lover, James Hewitt, will also appear on the show, set to hit our screens in March.