EastEnders star has been getting close with her fellow co-stars, including Dragons Den star Sara Davies, Gordon Ramsay's daughter Tilly, and fellow actress Rose Ayling-Ellis, who made history last year as the show's first ever deaf contestant. Today (12 February) she shared a video of her spending time with CBBC TV presenter Rhys Stephenson in the dressing room before a show at London's 02 arena.
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How is the Strictly live tour going so far? How did it feel to be approached to do Strictly Come Dancing and then what was the whole experience like for you? I quickly ran to my car, and we talked about it, it was so exciting. It was so cool, because I wanted to go all the way.
And then when you do the show and realise how difficult it is, it was like 'oh my gosh, will I go all the way?', because it wasn’t just about dancing, it’s personality as well, way better dancers have gone home quicker not because of their dancing ability but because the audience just didn’t connect with them which adds a whole different level of difficulty to the competition because you can’t try and change yourself to just appeal to people, you’ve just got to hope that people like who you are. That tied up with it being such a competitive thing and I thought, well I’m not enjoying that, and I thought if I want to do something that’s really competitive and really difficult to get into, I might as well enjoy it and love it so that even if I spend the rest of my life trying to get there, at least I like it.
Like someone says, I’d rather do something that I love and terrible at than do something that I’m really good at but hate. Then I started doing presenting in uni for a news show for our student channel, and that was just a hobby really, I’d never done presenting, I’d always done acting and performing and stuff like that.
I did it for two years then they nominated me for a National Student Television Award. So, I was like, 'well I’m never going to win this, but sure I’ll go to the event and have fun'.
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