The dancing you did on TV looked pretty sexy. Did you ever get turned on?
I’ll tell you a secret. Most people on Strictly Come Dancing are really horny all the time. Imagine you’re being groped for five hours a day, hips rubbing together, hands everywhere… it’s like foreplay, but no actual sex. You’re not getting any punani at the end!
Presumably, red-blooded men like John Barnes had some embarrassing moments with wood?
The pros have been doing it since they were eight years old, so to them it’s just a job. I’m sure the male celebs may have been at risk, but they never went into precise details.
How do you get rid of your arousal?
Well, I’m single, so a cold shower and a cup of hot chocolate before bed, of course.
So when you next pull, there’s going to be a lucky, if very exhausted, man somewhere?
That’s what I hope.
You come from Welwyn Garden City. There’s no football team and nobody in our office really knows where it is. What should we know about your ’hood?
It’s a tiny little new town off the A1. There are lots of woods and horses. We have a Shredded Wheat factory. And… er… Nick Faldo is from there.
Sounds captivating. Is it plagued by a rural crime wave fuelled by boredom and cider rage?
To be honest, it’s very quiet, and you rarely hear a police siren or an ambulance. Occasionally there are some teenagers fighting on a Saturday night, but that’s it.
When you toured with Mis-Teeq did you have loads of groupies?
Our fans were mostly teenage girls, but we did have some older male ones. They’d wait backstage with teddy bears and poems they’d written for us. It was a little bit disturbing to be 21 and have a grey-haired 60-year-old man giving you a teddy.