07/12/2011 Newsround

Hello, Joe and Keighley Whitsun midweek Newsround fun. It is pretty

cold, but not as cold as this next place. We take a look behind the

scenes of Frozen Planet. And we get up close and personal with Pussycat

Dolls, Nicole Scherzinger. First, there are only 233 days until the

Olympics kicks off in London, but some Olympic hopefuls are finding

it hard to find the money to train. James Ellington is so desperate to

get a sponsorship deal he has decided to sell himself on eBay.

The athlete told the BBC-wide he needs �30,000. �30,000 which may

sound a lot to a lot of people, but if you break it down into a yearly

wage, just as a wage, and their expenses and travelling and

everything else to get around. have been to speak to the BBC's

sports correspondent, Matt Slater, to find out if this is unusual.

is an old story. Going on eBay is new. Is there enough money going on

athletes? At the top end there is. It is a cut-throat business. We are

using National Lottery money -- money to fund people to win us

medals. At the top end you have got the big names like Jessica Ennis.

They are so well known, they do not need money. They have individual

sponsors. The next level down, somebody like Dai Greene, the

hurdler, he would be getting around �27,000 which is enough for all his

training. He does not need the job. Do you think the next generation

will have to do things like this to get the money they need? Almost

definitely. We know the public funding for elite sport will fall

off a debt. They will have to use a social media, Twitter, Facebook,

eBay, whatever means it is to promote themselves. We will see a

lot more of this. Next to a Russia where thousands of police and

soldiers are on the streets of the capital Moscow after two days of

protests. People are angry about the elections that happened on

Sunday. They reckon it was fixed and they do not want Prime Minister

Vladimir Putin in power. More than 250 people have been arrested.

How do you go about filming in the polar regions? You have got

freezing conditions, it cannot be easy. It is the last episode of

Frozen Planet tonight and I have been finding out how the crew

managed to do it. Frozen Planet, the incredible

programme that has given as an inside view of the last great

wilderness on earth, the polar regions. It showed as the Arctic

and Antarctic as they had never been seen before. It took four

years to make and the producers used 38 sled dogs. Were 598 pairs

of thermals, spent 35 days trapped intense and experienced -50 degrees

Celsius temperatures. The series captured a amazing moments. The

killer whales that generated a giant waves to not seals off ice

floes in the water. The crafty penguin who stole a rock

from his mate. And the eyrie, ice finger of death,

a three-metre long ice stalactite that plunged towards the sea bed

killing everything it touched. is the most unbelievable a series

of shots I have ever seen. It was like something out of Harry Potter.

It took 38 camera men to fund the series and they spent months away

from their families living off special packets of food. This is

pretty much lunch, dinner and breakfast for two months for two

people will stop the show would not have been complete without the

present day, the legend that is Sir David Attenborough. I am standing

in the middle of a frozen ocean. Britain's best known natural

history film maker, whose career has spanned nearly 50 years, and it

was the first time he had ever been to the North Pole. It may have

taken years to make under some of the most difficult conditions, but

for shots like this, they think it was worth it. David Attenborough is

a hero of mine. I will miss that. It will be repeated at the weekend.

How many books do you have? One in three kids do not own any. It has

got people worried this will affect how well kits can read and how well

they do in class. We wanted to know what you thought about this. Do you

Let's get some television news. She has had tons of hits with the

Pussycat Dolls and judged the X Factor on both sides of the

Atlantic. I am talking about Nicole Scherzinger. She is also performing

at the Royal Variety Show. We went to catch up with her to get some

gossip. The Royal Variety Performance has been going by

nearly a century. Every year stars from stage and screen perform in

front of royalty. Nicole Scherzinger is one of this year's

stand-out performers. I had a chance to meet her. What does it

feel like to be part of such a British institution? A few years

back I was shaking in my boots and it is an honoured to be able to

perform and that they have an amazing condition still going.

are going to be meeting the Princess. How do you feel about

that? I will give her a big hug or something. I probably should not be

that. Nicole is a judge on the American X Factor, but has been a

guest judge over here as well. We are in the final stages of the show

here. What does it take to be in the show at this stage? Working

with the contestants so closely, you see who really delivers once

they get on stage. It is different when they are rehearsing. When they

get on stage you can tell they are really at home. I miss the talent

here because the talent is a bit more bubbly and fun. It is

different. My Chester City need a miracle if

they are to get through to the knockout stages of the Champions

League. They have to beat Bayern Munich. We will let you know in the

morning. That is it from me. Tune into the one show on BBC One