PUBLISHED: 16:35, Mon, Jan 4, 2021 | UPDATED: 16:49, Mon, Jan 4, 2021
Link copiedLouise Redknapp, 45, has claimed Strictly Come Dancing is a “weird” programme, saying she never thought she would be “suckered into something” that attracted a lot of media attention. The former wife of football pundit Jamie Redknapp, 45, shared that she is not one to enjoy being in the limelight and only enjoys performing because it is her “passion”.
I didn't enjoy it
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Louise made the revelations as she sat down with good friend Sophie Ellis-Bextor on her Spinning Plates podcast.
Insurance Loans Mortgage Attorney Credit LawyerShe divulged: “It’s a weird programme and, in some ways, I love the fact that it ignited something that reminded me so much of my passion, but I didn’t enjoy it.
“I never thought I would be suckered into something that is so not me. It is so not my world, I’m so not attention-hungry,” she added.
The Eternal singer admitted that she would not consider doing a similar programme again because of the “circus” surrounding it.
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Louise Redknapp, 45, has claimed Strictly Come Dancing is a “weird” programme (Image: INSTAGRAM/PA)
Louise Redknapp shared that she is not one to enjoy being in the limelight and only enjoys performing because it is her “passion” (Image: GETTY)
She continued: “I genuinely do what I do because I genuinely love it.
“It comes from such a deep place, performing, that the outside of what goes on, the circus around it… is something that I would never want to put my family through again.”
Louise appeared on Strictly four years ago and was partnered with Stacey Dooley's now boyfriend Kevin Clifton.
The pair made it to the final but were unfortunately beaten by Ore Oduba and Joanne
