Three more Strictly Come Dancing contestants revealed to have secret ‘professional’ dance backgrounds
Daisy Lowe, Anastacia and Melvin Odoom are show's latest stars to hide secret dancing pasts, after we revealed Will Young took ballet lessons for over a decade
THREE more of this year’s Strictly stars to have hidden their professional dance experience.
Pop star Anastacia, Xtra Factor host Melvin Odoom and model Daisy Lowe have all made money from their fancy footwork.
I’m Outta Love singer Anastacia started out as a dancer on Club MTV and appeared in videos including Salt-n-Pepa’s Twist and Shout.
Former child actor Melvin, 36, got a degree in media performance and taught kids dance.
Daisy, 27, danced in Miles Kane’s Come Closer video.
We revealed last weekend that Will Young, 37, has taken ballet lessons for 11 years. A source said: "Strictly Come Dancing is about teaching celebrities a new skill, but some of them have a distinct advantage and have been dancing for years."
"OK they might not have done ballroom before but they know the dance terms, they know about keeping time, they are good at performing and they are used to learning routines.
"It means it’s a really unfair playing field and celebrities like Ed Balls will have to work much harder to keep up."
When Anastacia, 48, was revealed as a contestant, she said: “I’ve got a lot of training to do before I’m twinkletoes.”
Daisy also said she had no experience, saying: “This is completely different from anything I have ever done before.”
Melvin said: “I’m looking forward to learning some new moves.”
Last night the BBC said: “Strictly is Latin and ballroom-based. Neither contestant has any formal training in these areas.”
