‘I literally ran’: Helen Skelton tried to 'escape' Strictly before live dancing debut

“I got on the dance floor and they said, ‘When the audience come in…’ and I went, ‘Oh crikey, yeah, there’s people’.”

“I was like, ‘There’s a fire door, there, I can get out of it,’ and I did! Gorka found me and said, ‘What are you doing?’

“I said, ‘Just having a minute.’ I literally ran. It was like when I did Celeb SAS, I tried to escape that.”