Strictly fix row as Helen Skelton insists she can’t dance despite winning prestigious tap award from Ken Dodd
thesun.co.ukSTRICTLY star Helen Skelton was a Diddy bit out of step when she insisted she can’t dance — because she once won a tap award named after Ken Dodd.
The TV presenter, who will be in the new series which starts next month, waltzed off with comic legend Doddy’s gong when she was a teenager.
Last week, the 39-year-old told BBC Radio 5 Live: “People keep saying, ‘Can you dance?’ and I say, ‘No’ because isn’t it the point to learn to dance?” But Helen, who signed up to the series after her marriage split from rugby league ace husband Richie Myler, 32, in April, is actually a trained tap dancer.
And she won the The Ken Dodd Tap Dancing Award 22 years ago.Asked to reveal a secret about herself in an interview in 2016, ex-Blue Peter favourite Helen replied: “I won a Ken Dodd tap-dance award when I was 17.” She later said: “Not a lot of people know this, but I’m very good at tap dancing.
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