The 42-year-old Good Morning Britain presenter – who is among the 15 celebrities taking to the dance floor for the new series of Strictly Come Dancing this evening – said that despite having had modern and ballet training in her youth, she has realised she is not as skilled as she thought.
Charlotte explained: “The worse my dancing gets, the more leg I’ll have to show to distract everybody. I’m probably going to shock myself. I suspect a lot of people will be shocked too.
“But you have to throw yourself into it. I can’t go on that stage as Charlotte the newsreader or Charlotte the mum. I have to pretend to be Charlotte Hawkins the dancer.
“I have to step into character. I have to step out of my comfort zone,” she added to The Sun.
Charlotte – who is partnered with professional dancer Brendan Cole – said she is fully prepared to sport some revealing outfits while on the BBC One programme, although her GMB co-stars Susanna Reid and Piers Morgan have started “teasing” her over them.
“I don’t want to be the only one saying, ‘I’d like my skirt to be down to my ankle and my tops up to my chin’,” she said.
“I’ve been told you often start off saying, ‘I’ll just have the dresses down to the knee’. Then the next week it’s up to the thigh and the next week it’s, ‘Oh, maybe we’ll just go a bit shorter still’.”
Charlotte, who has been married to husband Mark Herbert since 2008, also said she has no concerns about the so-called Strictly “Curse”, although said it is “weird” to be dancing so intimately with another man.
Her latest interview comes after she admitted that she was struggling with the Foxtrot; which is the dance she and Brendan will be performing this evening to Michael Bublé’s The Best Is Yet To Come.
Strictly Come Dancing 2017 kicks off tonight at 6.25pm on BBC One.
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