Dr Punam Krisham has just one complaint about Strictly - and it isn't the judges' scoring.
The GP and BBC Morning Live star, 41, came second to last in the leaderboard last week - after performing a Viennese Waltz to She's Always a Woman by Billy Joel with her pro dancing partner Gorka Márquez. The duo's routine scored just 21 points - with Craig Revel Horwood scathing it 'lacked musicality and energy in the body'.
Dr Punam will have to pull out all of the stops for Halloween Week, where she is slated to tackle the Tango to Sweet Dreams by Eurythmics.
During a chat with OK! Magazine, fellow competitor and Eastenders star Jamie Borthwick, 30, explained that he's currently taking 'each day as it comes'. "We have got a doctor here looking after us, so any problems, any fainting or anything..." he joked.
Dr Punam chimed in: "Yeah, I thought I was getting away from it, but literally, it's been non-stop medical questions!" Despite having to endure gruelling rehearsals and her co-star's questions, the celeb is still working as a GP outside of the competition. She says it's the 'perfect balance' of 'scrubs and sparkle'.
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Before her days on the ballroom dancefloor, Dr Punam once experienced a horrific accident after crashing her car while driving at 70mph on a 'busy' motorway. "One minute you could be cruising along, living your best life and the next you could see it all flash before your eyes," she wrote on Instagram last year.
"I lost total control of everything as my car aquaplaned across the lanes on a busy motorway at 70mph causing me to crash straight into the central reservation a few days ago. All blurry but yet so vivid, in slow motion but also too fast to register, so deafening but simultaneously silent; An experience of absolute fear but one that's left an overwhelming sense of gratitude. All this, all at once!"
Luckily, Dr Punam made a recovery from the incident and was helped by an 'absolute hero' who provided a blanket and stuck around before the paramedics attended the scene. "I've got it beside me now as a reminder of the sweetest strangers who'll touch your life in the most significant of ways," she added. "You might never see them again but there's real goodness out there.
Strictly Come Dancing airs every Saturday on BBC One.
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