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Paloma Faith wants to be on Strictly because she hates dancing: ‘I really like torturing myself’
Paloma Faith has revealed that she couldn’t be more keen to star on Strictly Come Dancing, bizarrely reasoning that she ‘hates dancing’.
We’re a little lost girl, but fair enough.
The Better Than This hitmaker revealed she’s never been asked on the BBC dancing show (although we suspect that might be about to change).
‘No, I really want to be on,’ she explained. ‘I used to be a dancer. I really hate dancing now. So that’s why I want to do it, as I really like torturing myself. There’d be loads of masochism in doing it.’
She added on The Jonathan Ross Show: ‘But I used to be really obsessed by salsa dancing when I was young, maybe 17. I used to go five nights a week and still make it into college the next morning… I’ve always wanted to learn to Tango.’
Could Paloma be about to strut her stuff on the glitzy ballroom floor? We’re all here for it.
Aside from her dancing dreams, the 39-year-old has been kept super busy after welcoming her second child with her partner Leyman Lahcine earlier this year.
Keeping it real about mum life, Paloma has been documenting the ups and downs of life with a newborn.
In one of her recent candid posts, the star opened up on how she worries about keeping on top of motherhood and her career.
‘Worrying about the future, how this works career-wise, how I can be a good mum and have a career I love and am passionate about because that’s what I want,’ she wrote.
‘There’s this fear that if you focus on something else for a second when you come back, no one will be there to greet you. I think all working mums struggle with this. Worry is my main thing right now.’
Despite her fears, Paloma admitted she was overjoyed that her four-year-old daughter was ‘starting to get used to the imposter in her life’.
‘She even asked if she could have a bath with her yesterday! There’s progress,’ she delightedly wrote.
The singer went on to speak about her ‘magical’ alone time with her newborn.
Paloma said: ‘There are these moments in the dark when there is silence in the house that you have with a newborn, it’s like you both know you have something special together and you are intrinsically linked forever. It’s quite magical.’
The Jonathan Ross Show returns Saturday at 9:35pm on ITV. Strictly Come Dancing will return to BBC One later this year.
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