Oti Mabuse is a terrible tap dancer.
Oti Mabuse struggles with tap dancing
The former 'Strictly Come Dancing' dancer - who is heading out on her 'I Am Here' solo tour later this month - insists professional dancers can't "master all styles" of dance and one of her weaknesses is tap.
She said: “Ballet is very different to ballroom and Latin dance.
“Dance is really individual and I don’t think you can just master any style. I have a podcast and on every single episode, I learn a different style of dance. I was terrible at tap! Terrible! But I enjoyed Irish dancing. So, just because you are dancer, it doesn’t mean you can master all styles. Every dance has its own language and you have to put in the work to be able to do it. The body moves how the body moves.”
On what fans can expect from her upcoming run - which retells the story of her life - Oti told the Express and Star: “We will be bringing all of the craziness with a live band, live music and amazing dancers.
“The music will be as loud as I speak!"
The 31-year-old South African - who has been married to professional dancer Marius Lepure since 2014, who she met on the German version of 'Strictly' - is thrilled that her husband is involved.
She added: “The show is really about my life with everyone telling the story through song and dance. From everything we love about the UK, the musicals, the food, the streets, the countryside, then to Germany where we met and started dancing on the German version of 'Strictly' together and then all the way to South Africa and back. He is such a vital part of my life and so it is amazing that I get to share that experience with him."
The 'Dancing on Ice' and 'Masked Dancer' judge will be bringing the "indigenous traditional dances" to theatres across the UK and Ireland, kicking off on April 28 in Cardiff.
She said: “Kwaito is a form of South African street dancing which is done with freedom that our nation naturally knows how to do,
“I will also be bringing indigenous traditional dances to the show too.”