I am a self-confessed rock fan and metal head, but I love good music, and 40 years on the Pet Shop Boys still have it.

I've been a stand-up now for over two decades and I am lucky enough to enjoy the privilege of being able to tour and fill theatres.

Stand-up doesn't terrify me or even make me nervous beyond some pre-show restless excitement.

I love stand-up, but it has become so normal and natural to me that the buzz comes from the adrenaline of a great show rather than from the fear or nerves of doing something new and unknown.

Strictly,' I thought, could actually be the best thing that I've ever done - possibly, maybe, well either that or three weeks that I'll never live down.

I want to fit into the electric atmosphere of a live 'Strictly' show and for the crowd to be entertained and not to have the atmosphere flattened to accommodate me. I would rather go out in week two having disastrously immersed myself in the show's noisy energy than get through to week 10 in silence.