Strictly's Helen Skelton swears she can't dance despite tap dance champion past
dailyrecord.co.ukCountryfile presenter Helen Skelton is one of many celebrities taking to the Strictly Come Dancing stage ahead of the show returning later this year.
The broadcaster has previously said she can't dance ahead of her stint on the BBC ballroom dancing show, but in a resurfaced interview clip Helen, 39, admits to winning a tap dancing competition.
When asked to reveal a little known secret about herself in an unearthed 2016 piece of footage, Skelton replied: “I won a Ken Dodd tap-dance award when I was 17. "Not a lot of people know this, but I’m very good at tap-dancing.
People are often amazed I can tap-dance.”However, despite previously boasting about her tap dancing skills, she said on BBC Radio 5 Live last week: "People keep saying, "Can you dance?" and I say, "No," because isn't it the point to learn to dance?" Despite downplaying her dancing skills, Helen, won the competition 22 years ago when she was just 17-years-old.The award was named after the comedian Ken Dodd, who died in 2018 aged 90.
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