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es.“He’s so highly regarded and the more

know him, I can see why.

eally hoping to do well for Johannes, as

isfirst year with a celebrity and I’m

nedto make him proud.

he’sso strong, which is great,” she adds,

g. “He throws me like I weigh nothing. It’s

a feather.”

erine’s delight over being in Strictly

tsto her years as a teenager, when

g more than 15 stone left her with a lack

dence.

the fat, funny one – and I was happy,”

“I’ve always been a very bubbly person.

it was gradually, as I got older, when I

I wanted to be an actress or in musical

it became a health thing for me. I couldn’t

‘I’m visualising everything going completely to plan.

I’m visualising me and Johannes and those perfect tens’

ERINE’S DRESS: BOWEN DRYDEN. JEWELLERY: DAVID M ROBINSON & SWAROVSKI. TOM’S OUTFIT: WHITFIELD & WARD. (RIGHT) DRESS: MATSOUR’I. EARRINGS: DAVID M ROBINSON

ps:Catherine is on sparkling form with

), but the real work has now begun

propartner Johannes Radebe (right,

onthe Strictly launch show). “He is a

henomenal teacher,” she says

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