Caroline Quentin worried she will wee on Strictly partner Johannes Radebe

3 November 2020

Caroline Quentin worries she may accidentally urinate on Johannes Radebe during training.

Caroline Quentin

The 60-year-old actress has hit it off with the 33-year-old dancer on this year’s ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ competition as they share a similar sense of humour.

But she is worried that her weak bladder will cause her to wee on him whilst they are dancing due to her not being able to control her guffaws.

Speaking to to the new issue of Heat magazine, Caroline said: “What he doesn’t know is that, at my age, I have quite a weak bladder. If I laugh too much, he might pay the price, put it that way!”

However, that’s not her only issue as she is worried Johannes could drop her if he looses his concentration whilst they are both laughing.

She said: “You know when you laugh a lot and you go physically quite weak? What I mustn’t do is make him laugh before he’s about to lift me, because I don’t want him to drop me!”

It comes after the ‘Men Behaving Badly’ star revealed she had her heart set on becoming a dancer but she found it "really painful and tiring", and before she decided to act instead.

She explained: "I was a precociously good dancer. Hard to imagine looking at me now. I was good at it.

"The school I went to, it was a bit like the Royal Ballet school. I wasn't sent because I was going to meet the right people, I was there to learn to dance, which is really painful and tiring."

She soon quit dancing and discovered her passion for acting, but many people don't realise she has an extensive background going into 'Strictly'.

She added: "It's so tiring being a dancer. If you're thinking about it by all means consider it but I'm telling you know, it's exhausting.

"I was in the original cast of 'Les Miserables'. I did end-of-the-pier stuff then Royal Court and started doing costume dramas at the BBC.

"Then I met the Comedy Store improvs, they didn't have many women. People think you arrive in a sitcom and don't realise 10-12 years before that you were dorrising around in a set of feathers on the end of a pier."