I was pretty rubbish when I first started dancing. I didn't understand the discipline of working on one step over and over again. If you look at it from the outside, you'd think, 'Why would anybody want to do that?' But you just want to get it perfect. It is that constant inner striving that you fall in love with.

I've come to realise that being on 'Strictly' is like being in another theatre company and performing a live production.

This perception that we can be stars without any work and just appear is rubbish.

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