BBC Strictly star Dr Punam Krishan's bold move when work burnout became unbearable

Dr Punam Krishan combines her enactment arsenic an NHS GP with her tv vocation - present the versatile medic is adding a crook connected Strictly Come Dancing into the mix

Morning Live GP Dr Punam Krishan is 'overjoyed' to beryllium a contestant connected Strictly Come Dancing.

"I person watched Strictly each twelvemonth with my household and it feels other peculiar that it's the 20th year, I can't judge I volition beryllium the 1 getting Strictly-fied now," said the practising NHS doctor, who has paired up with nonrecreational dancer Gorka Marquez for the contest.

"This is truthful retired of my comfortableness portion but I'm up for the travel and volition springiness it my implicit all."

Punam's palmy media vocation was calved retired of burnout erstwhile the doctor, who regularly appears connected BBC Radio Scotland, started penning for GP work Pulse to destress.

"I was experiencing burnout and penning became a abstraction to offload and explicit my feelings astir work," she told the University of Glasgow website. "There's a batch of negativity towards GPs and radical successful superior attraction and that tin beryllium rather isolating.

"I felt empowered by sharing my experiences and it connected with tons of chap doctors, past it each took disconnected from there."

Punam present regularly reports connected wellness quality arsenic good arsenic serving arsenic a broadcaster connected TV, vigor and nationalist newspapers. She adjacent recovered clip to constitute her ain children's publication and portion Strictly is simply a unsocial and pugnacious caller challenge, she is wholly up for it.

Born successful Glasgow, she works arsenic a GP successful the metropolis from Monday to Thursday greeting earlier heading to Manchester to decorativeness the week connected Morning Live. Stars connected the amusement who person appeared connected Strictly see Helen Skelton and Gethin Jones.

"They've done it truthful I'm going to beryllium tapping into each of their guidance and proposal and contented conscionable to assistance maine through," said the doctor. "I can't hold for what's ahead."

Her creation spouse Gorka has relocated to Glasgow for grooming leaving his wife, erstwhile Strictly contestant Gemma Atkinson and their 2 young children astatine home. The Spanish nonrecreational has doubly reached the last of the contention but ne'er lifted the coveted Glitterball Trophy.

Giving an update from training, helium said: "She [Punam] is truthful excited and enthusiastic astir the amusement and being portion of it which I emotion due to the fact that I tin spot the joyousness and happiness erstwhile she's learning to dance. Even if she struggles with the steps oregon anything, she wants to effort and springiness her champion and I emotion that due to the fact that that's what it is each astir - to effort and person the champion time."

Punam is joined to Scottish Conservative wellness spokesman, Dr Sandesh Gulhane with a lad and a daughter. She has a specializer involvement successful nationalist health, household and manner medicine.

The eldest of 2 daughters, she told The Herald she was 'raised connected curry and Irn Bru' by her Indian-born parents. "It was ingrained successful america that acquisition was the cardinal to freedom," she said. "You were either going to beryllium a doctor, lawyer, accountant oregon a failure."