Strictly Come Dancing star Victoria Pendleton: I can't pretend to be in love
OLYMPIC gold medal winner Victoria Pendleton is finding her latest challenge a tough act.
The cycling beauty, 32, is out to win Strictly Come Dancing.
But she says it is hard to dance as if besotted with professional partner Brendan Cole – because her mind is on her real-life love Scott Gardner.
She tells this week’s Radio Times: “As lovely as Brendan is, he’s not my fiance. I’m not an actress, so pretending to be in love with someone is quite hard.”
Meanwhile in New! magazine, make-up artist Lisa Armstrong reveals how she calms Victoria’s backstage nerves – she gives her boiled sweets.