Ms Dynamite in high-speed TV crash - Nov 12 2006
Award-winning singer Ms Dynamite is recovering after a terrifying 100mph car crash while filming the finale for Sky One’s The Race. (see photos)

Fellow celebrity contestant Brian Johnson - lead singer of rock group AC/DC - clipped the back of Ms Dynamite’s race car at Silverstone circuit in Northamptonshire, sending it spinning out of control.

A Sky One spokesman said the high-speed collision this afternoon sent Ms Dynamite’s Formula Ford spinning down the track for about 50 metres (54 yards) before it eventually came to a halt.

Paramedics were quickly on the scene and the singer - who was described as conscious and talking - was treated at the track’s medical centre.

The spokesman said the R&B star had been airlifted to Northampton General Hospital as a precautionary measure, but had not suffered any serious injuries.

Ms Dynamite is the second celebrity to be injured while taking part in the reality show.

Last Tuesday, Ingrid Tarrant - the estranged wife of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? host Chris Tarrant - was treated by paramedics at Silverstone after flipping a £150,000 three-tonne truck upside down.

The spokesman said Ms Dynamite’s accident happened during the filming of the show’s finale.

"The contestants were on lap four of 25 when Brian Johnson’s wheel clipped the back of Ms Dynamite’s car causing it to spin down the track for about 50 metres (54 yards) before it came to a halt," he said. "It was quite a violent collision, but the paramedics were straight on the scene. She was conscious and talking and seemed to be OK. She doesn’t appear to have any serious injuries, but she is bound to be very shaken."

The spokesman said Ms Dynamite’s car could have been travelling in excess of 100mph when the accident happened on the circuit’s home straight.

Ms Dynamite used to cut herself - Aug 05
Ms Dynamite has confessed she used to cut herself. The award-winning singer, real name Niomi McLean Daley, has revealed she hurt herself when she was living in hostels as a teenager.


She admitted: "You see women who cut themselves a lot; it wasn’t like that. But, yes, I did go through a stage of feeling completely and totally empty and worthless." Niomi moved out of her family home at the tender age of 15 because she was "clashing heads every moment" with her over-protective mother, Heather. And she says the four years she spent living in London hostels was a depressing time. The star revealed: "It was horrible; a negative, draining, depressing experience. I met some real lunatics and a lot of drug addicts.

"But what I find really disturbing is that I never felt scared. Where was my mind?" Niomi claims she now gets on much better with her mum - especially since the birth of her son, Shavaar. She explained to Britain’s Telegraph magazine: "The characteristics that were in me, that made us fight, I see them now in my son. If I say, ’Don’t touch that, please,’ he’ll look at me and with one little finger he will touch whatever it is I told him not to. He’s such a little wind-up. "I always say to my mum, ’I’m really sorry, I understand now.’ She just laughs."

Lost for words - Sept 04
Ms Dynamite is struggling with her latest album.