A Preston teenager who starred on a programme about Tourette syndrome, has hailed her five minutes of fame on reality TV as a positive experience.

Jenny Worth, 17, of Laburnum Avenue, Lostock Hall, appeared on Teenage Tourette's Camp on ITV on Tuesday evening.

Last summer, along with four other sufferers of the neurological condition, she travelled to a US summer camp created to help Touretters spend time with other young people like themselves.

During the show viewers saw Jenny square up to fellow Touretter, Jessica, after a heated argument. Although Jenny was sent home early after the incident, she said there were no hard feelings.

"I feel bad about what happened, but we have made up. It was just a teenage tiff that we had," she added. "Going on the camp helped me because I got to meet people with it, share stories, and know that I was not alone."

She said the editing of the show was fair. "It showed it exactly as it happened, everything that happened was in there.

"I would go back to the camp if I was given the chance."

Jenny started showing signs of Tourettes at the age of six, but it wasn't officially diagnosed until she was ten.

Symptoms of Tourettes are chronic muscular tics, twitch like movements, and vocal tics, involuntary noises which can be swear words.

After being bullied at one primary school, Jenny went to Bamber Bridge Methodist School, now Cuerden Church Primary. When she was 13, she joined Silverdale Ridgeway Park residential school, where she stayed until leaving school at 16.

She admitted feeling suicidal in the past, but said her parents Sue, 54, and Malcolm, 55, have been crucial in their support.

"My parents cope really well, we have a laugh about it, it's quite an adventure. If it was not for them, I don't think I would be alive today.

She is now looking for a job as a receptionist.

She said the worst part of having the condition is the reaction from strangers, but that even if a cure for the condition were found she wouldn't want it.

"I would never get rid of it, it's made me who I am, it's part of me."