Mickey Joe Harte shares his biggest worry ahead of Dancing With The Stars debut

Mickey Joe Harte has opened up about his biggest worry ahead of his Dancing With The Stars debut this weekend.

The Eurovision icon is one of eleven celebrities who will take to the ballroom on Sunday night for the first show of the new series.

While he's no stranger to performing, Mickey Joe has admitted that he has some "anxiety" heading into the first live show and he has worries about forgetting the routine.

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Speaking to RSVP Live, he said: "I had a few days in rehearsals where the mind was blank. If you're playing live music and you miss a chorus or a verse, you can always get in again. You can sort of rustle your way into the song again.

"I was just having those moments where there's a blank, you're going, Jesus what's next? It's trying to get it all into your mind and into your muscle memory that you're so thinking so much about what's next, you're actually trying to perform it.

"I just want to enjoy it more than anything. If I come off it and I haven't enjoyed it I'll be really disappointed."

He added: "Sleep hasn't been great this last week, that's just nerves and anxiety [about] something completely new."

It has been a manic few weeks for Mickey Joe, as he released a new single over Christmas and has been juggling that, Dancing With The Stars rehearsals and of course day-to-day family life.

"There were lots of things in December that were distracting," he said. "Now I'm in January now I can clear the deck so I haven't got anything more to think about. But that was challenging, just trying to juggle everything."

Despite his worries, Mickey Joe has said that rehearsals have been going well, over the course of the last week in particular.

"I'm feeling confident again now," he said. "If you had of asked me last week, it would have been a different answer.

"It's an up and down kind of thing; one day it's great and you retain the information, then the next day it leaves you a bit."

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