The Strictly Come Dancing final is just a day away, and actress Sarah Hadland is preparing the three dances she will undertake with professional partner Vito Coppola in the hopes of winning the competition. Also in the running for the iconic glitterball trophy are Love Island star Tasha Ghouri, comedian Chris McCausland, and JLS singer JB Gill.
Speaking at a press conference for the Strictly final, 53 year old Sarah admitted it hadn’t yet sunk in that she and Vito would be in the final, as she expected to be voted out in the semi final. “I was convinced we were going to be in that dance off,” she said. “I said to you [Vito], ‘where do we go?’ because we’ve never been in a dance off. And I was like, where do we go? Where will we warm up? I was so convinced.”
The Miranda star also spoke about the lessons she had learned during her time on Strictly, and how important it was to her. "What it’s made me realise, which I did not expect to get out of this, is that I have actually put limits on myself. (Limits) I’ve decided," she said. "And I don’t know if this is quite a common thing when you’re a parent, or you’ve got other things going on in your life. I think sometimes you put all your energy into other things, and then I think maybe what happens is you put all your belief maybe in other people, and you don’t do it for yourself.”
"And I definitely didn’t think I was one of those people that did that, and now I’ve realised, you don’t know it’s happened to you,” she continued. “Then you suddenly go, 'Oh, how much in other areas of my life am I doing that?’ Because a lot of the time Vito will say, ‘You can do this’. He will say to somebody else, in front of me, ‘She’ll do that’. And I’ll be like, ‘What? no’. And then, by the end of the week, I am doing it."
"It just makes you realise that you sometimes think that it’s other people telling you what you can and can’t do. And actually, the shocking thing for me was, it was me doing that to myself and that you shouldn’t ever reach a point in your life, for whatever reason that you think – that’s me, that’s my limit. And you shouldn’t do that because you’re stopping all these possibilities from happening."
The Strictly Come Dancing final takes place on BBC One on Saturday 14 December at 6pm, and will feature each of the finalists performing three dances for judges Motsi Mabuse, Anton Du Beke, Shirley Ballas and Craig Revel Horwood.
Each of the four remaining couples will do a Show Dance, a Judges’ Pick and a Personal Pick. Sarah and Vito’s show dance is to Cabaret, and they will be recreating their American Smooth to Proud, and Cha Cha Cha to Like A Prayer.
JB and Lauren’s dances are a show dance to a Motown Medley, their Viennese Waltz to Let’s Fly A Kite, and their top-scoring Samba to Mas Que Nada. Tasha and Aljaz’s show dance is to Sing, Sing, Sing, and they will also be dancing a Couple’s Choice to What About Us, and American Smooth to Someone You Loved.
Chris and Dianne’s show dance is to You Get What You Give, and they are also recreating their memorable Couple’s Choice to Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) and the Waltz to You’ll Never Walk Alone.
