Louise Redknapp 's 2016 stint on Strictly Come Dancing was a catalyst for change for the star. After years of feeling like a 'Stepford Wife', the former Eternal singer split from husband Jamie Redknapp and relaunched the career she'd selflessly waved goodbye to almost two decades earlier to be a stay at home wife and mother. "Strictly gave me a new path; it showed me that I would be OK, and that I could find work again," she wrote in her new autobiography, You've Got This. "After Strictly I realised that I couldn't just go back to my life as it had been before.
I didn't want to continue running around after everyone else, occasionally promoting a yoghurt or doing a little TV presenting job.
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