Angela scanlon admits 'torture' during strictly come dancing stint

THE STAR ADMITTED SHE'D RATHER GO THROUGH CHILD BIRTH WITHOUT PAIN-RELIEF THAN BE ON THE SHOW AGAIN 14:34, 30 May 2025 Presenter Angela Scanlon opened up about the "torture"

she experienced while on Strictly Come Dancing as she said it's worse than childbirth. The 41-year-old star participated in the BBC ballroom series back in 2023 alongside professional

dancer Carlos Gu who has been a regular on the show since 2022. They finished in sixth place after their Cha-cha-cha to I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor failed to win over the judges after

being placed in the bottom two during the public vote against Layton Williams and Nikita Kuzmin. However, it appears her time on the show filled with glitzy sequins may be less glamorous

than it appears on viewers screens. Speaking with Vicky Pattinson on their podcast Get a Grip, Angela shared: "I've had two children without pain relief and would do that ten times

over in a day than have raw, bleeding blisters. "You have to put the goddamn shoes on and do a Viennese waltz - my heels have never had so much action. Article continues below

"You put a plaster on and, because you're sweating like a donkey, it falls off. You put socks on with your ballroom shoe, and you're still rub-a-dubbing. You're

raw." Angela also made a comment that she'd rather go through the birth of her children without pain relief "ten times over" than hack the pain of "raw, bleeding

blisters" that she got from the show. The presenter also previously shared on another podcast in 2024 what it felt like being under the lights during the vote, as she explained the

"torture". She added: "Under the lights? Hell on Earth. I don't know how they're still allowed to do it. Honestly, it's absolute torture. "And the thing

about it is, we were never, or we were very rarely, like up there on the leader board - twice maybe. So you can sometimes have like a little bit of a breather because I think... Article

continues below "I don't fully understand how the marking works but you know, if you're right up there, it's very unlikely that the public voted, no matter how bad it is,

is enough to get you out. "If you're skirting around the middle, it's a danger zone. The level of competition was insane so it was never comfortable."