Karen Hauer has vowed to get "creative" to make ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ work amidst the coronavirus pandemic.
The professional dancer is determined to help the BBC One latin and ballroom dancing competition go ahead, despite the current health crisis, and she quipped that her and her fellow dancers will find a way to make the show work, even if everyone has to be 2 metres apart.
She said: "We usually start rehearsals in late July. As far as I know, fingers crossed I’m hoping it’s still going forward, but we’re just kind of waiting day by day to see what they tell us. Obviously we’d love for it to happen! [If we do it with social distancing], that’s just gonna be … side by side maybe? It can always happen. We can always make it work. It doesn’t always have to be in contact. We can get creative!"
And Karen admits she has been finding lockdown very "hard" mentally and recalled how she ended up talking to her cookie cabinet, before her partner David Webb questioned what she was doing.
Speaking about lockdown, she added to FUBAR Radio: "Mentally it’s definitely hard. It is hard to be at home all the time and to go out only for specifics and not being able to see your family …
"I stared at my cookie cabinet for about an hour and I just stood there. I think I cried a little bit, then I giggled to myself as well. I was eating a cracker and then I cried some more. I was just staring at the cookies going, ‘I think something’s wrong!’"
Karen Hauer will get creative to make Strictly Come Dancing happen amidst coronavirus pandemic
