BBC Strictly Come Dancing star Sarah Hadland recalls 'horror' Blackpool experience

Strictly Come Dancing prima Sarah Hadland has opened up astir her erstwhile 'horror' acquisition successful Blackpool involving a donkey, arsenic she prepares to instrumentality to the seaside municipality for the BBC show

Sarah Hadland has recounted her fearfulness donkey experience, likening it to a gruesome country consecutive retired of a fright flick.

Despite looking guardant to returning to Blackpool for 'Strictly Come Dancing', she doesn't person the cheeriest of memories from her puerility visits there.

She shared: "My mum took maine to Blackpool erstwhile I was a little. We got determination and we did the rollercoaster... erstwhile our photograph came done everyone had their arms successful the aerial but I'm obscurity to beryllium seen.

"I'm successful the brace position, astir apt screaming, brace, brace. After that, my mum took america to spell connected a small donkey thrust connected the beach. I got connected a donkey but it got spooked. I swung nether the donkey and was dragged with my look successful the sand. " "This donkey was called thing similar Brenda. It's similar thing successful a fearfulness film. After that, I deliberation I was a spot traumatised and conscionable came home."

Even with the traumatic acquisition down her, the 'Miranda' histrion is implicit the satellite to deed the celebrated sprung creation level of the Blackpool Tower Ballroom. She continued: "I'm rather a bouncy idiosyncratic and Vito [Coppola] spends a batch of clip telling maine to halt being truthful bouncy."

"He says I'm similar Tigger from Winnie the Pooh. But past he's rather bouncy too, but helium tin power it. " "I'm disquieted that I'm going to person to beryllium adjacent little bouncy. To really creation connected it volition beryllium amazing."

Hadland feels it's a tremendous honour to grace the signifier astatine the illustrious venue. She said: "How galore radical who are not nonrecreational dancers tin accidental that they've competed connected the ballroom astatine Blackpool? That's conscionable crazy. There is added unit due to the fact that you've got the size and the scale, the privilege is conscionable going to marque maine perfectly spell for it."

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