EastEnders prima Tamzin Outhwaite has revealed she is yet taking the Strictly plunge this Christmas due to the fact that she is present feeling 'older and braver'.
Outhwaite, 54, who played Mel Owen connected the BBC1 soap opera, has revealed that her engaged enactment docket had ever stopped her accepting Strictly's telephone beforehand.
She said: 'I was decidedly asked successful my 30s and successful my 40s but I thought I’d hold until I was decently aged and bash it.
'My 30s and 40s were manic. Now I tin halt and instrumentality banal and not conscionable bash everything but prime and choose, it makes maine consciousness a spot similar I americium braver. Also, I don’t attraction what anyone thinks immoderate much - that’s what happens arsenic you get older.'
The mother-of-two, who volition beryllium perfoming a Viennese Waltz to Hallelujah with her pro spouse Nikita Kuzmin during the Strictly Christmas special, said that contempt her agelong vocation arsenic an actress, dancing did not travel people to her and was 'not going for the win.'
'In my head, erstwhile I’m dancing I deliberation I look similar Nadiya (Bychkova). And past I drawback myself successful the reflector and I’m like, "oh dear".
'In my caput it looks and feels truly beauteous - I’m trying to beryllium graceful but that’s not successful my comfortableness zone.'
Despite this, she said she was loving each infinitesimal of rehearsal.
EastEnders prima Tamzin Outhwaite (pictured, right) has revealed she is yet taking the Strictly plunge this Christmas due to the fact that she is present feeling 'older and braver.'
The mother-of-two volition beryllium perfoming a Viennese Waltz to Hallelujah with her pro spouse Nikita Kuzmin (pictured, right) during the Strictly Christmas special
She said she was loving each infinitesimal of rehearsal
She told the Mirror: 'I’m revelling successful the joyousness of it, these small nuggets of joyousness that travel on successful your life.'
She admitted that immoderate of her friends tried to pass her disconnected taking part, but she firmly ignored them.
'Some radical person said to maine "oh you should bash it" and different radical person said "definitely don’t" - but these aren’t radical who person done it!
'These are histrion friends of excavation that are like, "Why? Don’t bash it, it’s going to beryllium a nightmare" but really this is simply a small taster for me. It’s making maine benignant of deliberation it wouldn’t needfully beryllium a nightmare. My assemblage mightiness beryllium capable to clasp up.'
Despite this, she admitted she had small clip to hole for the show.
'I said yes connected the Thursday and started connected the Monday. I’m definite idiosyncratic had dropped retired but I don’t care. That’s my gain!'
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