Claudia Fragapane

Aged 18 at the time, Fragapane was the second youngest celebrity ever to participate, the youngest having been former EastEnders actress Louisa Lytton who was 17 when she competed in 2006. She is also the first female Olympic gymnast to compete on the show, the first gymnast having been Series 10 champion Louis Smith.

At the British national championships in 2014, Fragapane placed 2nd on vault with a score of 14.000, 5th on floor exercise (13.000), and 3rd on uneven bars (13.950). She finished third in the all-around competition with a total score of 55.700, and was selected to compete at the European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.

At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Fragapane competed on all four events in the team final, where the English team won gold. She qualified first into the all-around final with a score of 56.740, more than a point and a half ahead of the second-place qualifier Ellie Black of Canada. She also qualified first on balance beam, vault, and floor. Fragapane won the individual all-around final with a score of 56.132, and the women's vault final with a score of 14.633. On 1 August, she won the floor final with a score of 14.541. With four gold medals in a single competition, Fragapane was England's most successful female Commonwealth Games competitor in over 80 years.

After Fragapane's success in 2014, she was named BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year, edging out para-cyclist Sophie Thornhill and golfer Bradley Neil.

At the 2015 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Montpellier, France, Fragapane placed 6th in the all-around final, 6th in the vault final, 4th on the beam, and 2nd in the floor final, behind Ksenia Afanasyeva of Russia.

In March 2016, Fragapane won the all-around title and three event titles at the 2016 English Championships in Loughborough. This was followed up by winning the All-Around title at the British Championships in April, held at the Echo Arena in Liverpool. Fragapane won the title with a personal best score of 58.10, this was the highest All-Around score of any British woman in the 2012-2016 Olympic Cycle. In July, she was named in Great Britain's women's gymnastics team for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, along with Becky Downie, Ellie Downie, Ruby Harrold, and Amy Tinkler.

Fragapane participated in the 2016 series of the popular reality TV competition show Strictly Come Dancing. She was partnered with AJ Pritchard. The couple reached the semi-finals but were eliminated on 11 December 2016, thus finishing in 4th place overall.

At the 2017 European Championships Fragapane qualified for the Balance Beam and Floor finals, finishing 8th and 7th respectively.

Fragapane's season was cut short when, in March 2018, she sustained an achilles injury.

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Claudia Fragapane will be 18 on Saturday, but in a sense it is a milestone that will mean very little.