Jayde Adams: comedian on Strictly Come Dancing for her late sister

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Everything comedian Jayde Adams has done in her burgeoning career has been in pursuit of getting on Strictly Come Dancing. Now that she's made it, she explains the very personal reason why she desperately wanted to participate.

From the ages of five to 17, Jayde Adams participated regularly in disco freestyle dance competitions with her older sister Jenna.

"I wasn't a very confident dancer," says Adams. "I've always been fat. I'm a really good dancer, but in freestyle disco dancing, when I was doing it in the 90s, there was a real stipulation about what you looked like when you were doing it.

"My sister really adapted this mold. I did not do it. Before, we had to dance together because we were sisters and it was easier. And I'll be honest with you, I think I held it back a bit."

In 2005 Jenna had an out of the blue seizure. she had a brain tumor and died six years later, aged 28. Jayde hasn't danced with anyone else since.