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Siobhan Macdonald

Strictly's Helen Skelton swears she can't dance despite tap dance champion past

Countryfile presenter Helen Skelton is one of many celebrities taking to the Strictly Come Dancing stage ahead of the show returning later this year.

The broadcaster has previously said she can't dance ahead of her stint on the BBC ballroom dancing show, but in a resurfaced interview clip Helen, 39, admits to winning a tap dancing competition. When asked to reveal a little known secret about herself in an unearthed 2016 piece of footage, Skelton replied: “I won a Ken Dodd tap-dance award when I was 17.

"Not a lot of people know this, but I’m very good at tap-dancing. People are often amazed I can tap-dance.”

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