She is a 50-1 outsider to win Strictly Come Dancing - but Caroline Quentin could be a dark horse to win after boasting she was a "precociously good dancer" at school.
The actor, 60, received professional training and in an interview last year before she was announced on Strictly boasted of her prowess learning steps.
She said: "I was a precociously good dancer. Hard to imagine looking at me now. I was good at it.
"The school I went to, it was a bit like the Royal Ballet school. I wasn't sent because I was going to meet the right people, I was there to learn to dance, which is really painful and tiring."
Caroline kept the dancing training going for several years but admits she then went into acting more than dancing in theatre which was a relief.
She added: "It's so tiring being a dancer.
"If you're thinking about it by all means consider it but I'm telling you know, it's exhausting.
"I was in the original cast of Les Miserable. I did end-of-the-pier stuff then Royal Court and started doing costume dramas at the BBC.
"Then I met the Comedy Store improvs, they didn't have many women.
"People think you arrive in a sitcom and don't realise 10-12 years before that you were dorrising around in a set of feathers on the end of a pier."
She also insisted she was loving life in her 60s and said: "I like being the age I am.
"I get to work with loads of young people and it's funny and nice.
"They're very kind to me. When I can't remember my line they whisper in my ear on stage.
"It's really nice to be here, feel well and happy, doing new and interesting things."
