OHMYGOSSIP — Fred Sirieix’s daughter Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix has qualified for the Tokyo Olympics.
The ‘First Dates’ star is no doubt full of pride after it was revealed his 16-year-old daughter has been named, alongside 11 others, in TeamGB’s diving squad ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, which will take place later this summer.
Andrea will take part in the 10m platform event at the Olympics, which was moved to this year due to the pandemic.
And the 16-year-old hopeful insists she doesn’t see her father as a celebrity.
She said: “At school, they go ‘oh my gosh’, or they send pictures like ‘Andrea, this is your dad?’ And I go, ‘yeah, it is’. But when people go ‘oh your dad is a celebrity’, I go, ‘oh no he’s not, he’s just my dad.’
“It doesn’t really affect my opinion of him at all. I’m so proud of what he does and he worked really hard to get where he is now. My dad and I have different fields; my dad is on TV and I jump off a diving board. My dad tried it – he can tell you it’s not the easiest thing. Since I started my journey as an athlete, I always wanted to go to the Olympics, it was a big dream, and that that will never change. I’m going with an open mind.”
Both father and daughter are incredibly supportive of each other’s careers and whilst she would love a medal at this year’s summer Games, it is more important to her that she does her best.
Speaking to the Independent.co.uk, she added: “Of course I want a medal, of course I want to do the best that I can do, but I want to show and I want to broadcast to everyone that I want to be the best, I can work hard to try and be the best and I’m so excited for this experience and I’m really, really happy.”
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