"Between you and I darling I’m turning 43 in April and although I’m still in good shape and I’ve got a good doctor, who gives me good Botox to keep me looking fresh. I’ve had my day. I’ve done my tours.

"This is an opportunity for the younger dancers and I’m just here to try give them a bit of guidance and to encourage them. Making sure they do the best they can and make sure they upload the best 60 seconds they can, so that they get an opportunity of a lifetime. But like I said I might be uploading 60 seconds myself." He laughs.

Louie who has been dancing since the tender age of just five tells us how he got into dancing because of his sisters: "My sisters went dancing and I followed what they did, everything they did I did. They went dancing, I went dancing and I just continued dancing."

What career path would Louie have gone down if he didn’t become a dancer? "There is nothing I would have chosen, I would never have not been a dancer it's just not a question that would have ever happened. I was born to dance. Once I started that was it. I never stopped."

In terms of growing more in his dance and achieving more success Louie tells us that he thinks there is no more growth for him in dance. Although he’d like to grow in other areas: "I think that you can never stop learning, but now unfortunately I’m going to be 43 in April.

"When you dance it's an expression of your life and who you are and I think I’m secure with who I am, so I don't think there is any more growth to come in my dancing. Maybe in my height will be nice darling, but not in my dancing."

And finally Louie sheds some pearls of wisdom for all you aspiring dancers out there: "Dedication, you have to be dedicated because it's a hard hard life and you'll have more rejection than you will acceptances, so you just need to harden up and be dedicated. And if you love what you do than nothing will stop you." I couldn’t agree more!

Louie Spence has teamed up with the Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange Project who are searching for Madonna's next back up dancer.

Anyone over 21 can enter by uploading a 1 minute audition video to www.smirnoff.com by 10th October

Female First Haleema Shabir

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