Patsy: "This Is The Most Terrifying Thing I Have Ever Done"

Patsy is really enjoying Strictly, but finds it terrorfying.

She told the Daily Mail: "This is the most terrifying thing I have ever done. Every Saturday night, I turn to Robin and say: “I’ve forgotten the routine”. I stand there frozen before we go out on the dancefloor and I spend the day feeling sick. I’m standing backstage praying to St Jude — the patron saint of hopeless causes — and I can’t believe that people are voting for us. I mean, there are so many better dancers than me on the show. But this is the best thing that could have happened to me. I recommend dancing to any woman who’s been through any kind of crap."

The dancing is obviously doing Patsy the world of good: "It’s always awkward to talk about weight, but I’ve gone down by two dress sizes. The costume designers keep trying to make my dresses shorter, but I’m a mum and people are having dinner — we don’t want to turn them off."

Patsy is looking good, and she must have lost a heap of weight this week during Robin's jive boot camp.

The routines have lead to some akward conversations with her 11 year-old son: "The other night when I got home, Lennon said: “Mummy, you kissed Len and you kissed Robin,” and I had to explain it wasn’t romantic!"