Strictly Come Dancing was amazing - it was the most wonderful thing I've ever done, and it was also the most nerve-wracking thing I've ever done.
Every Friday when we went into the studios to rehearse I would think, "Is this the same dance that we've been learning all week?"
And then on Saturday, you had the nerves of the live show. It wasn't so much the live cameras and live audience - it was the judges scrutinising your every move, from your hands to your feet to your neck. It was nerve-wracking, but it was wonderful.
Pasha Kovalev is just the nicest man you could ever hope to meet. He has the patience of a saint. He didn't mind running through steps again and again and again until I got them, and he was a gentleman and a gentle man. I cannot praise him highly enough. He has become a good friend and I hope we will be friends forever now.
I hadn't danced before so I didn't have what the dancers call a "dance muscle", so three weeks before the programme started I was learning the cha-cha-cha, and it really was a case of repetition, repetition, repetition. And then the horror of realising that you have to learn a brand new dance in the space of four days - it was terrifying.
But because you start to develop a dance muscle you pick it up much faster when you go on to the second dance than you ever thought you would. But again, it's the same thing: repetition, repetition, repetition.
The support from the public was lovely and I didn't expect it at all. Thank you to every single person who voted for us because it was you who kept Pasha and me in the competition, rather than the judges' scores, because we were nearly always at or near the bottom of the leaderboard.
Strictly was a once-in-a-lifetime experience: the glitz, the glamour, the dresses, learning to dance with an amazing, lovely man - for me it was the whole package, and I lived the dream for 10 weeks.
This Saturday I know what they will all be going through as they wait to come down onto the stage. The nerves you feel! I did the first dance a couple of weeks ago, a quickstep, and it was terrifying.
If I am watching live I will be cheering them on with a glass of wine - if not I will watch it with a glass of wine later on. Either way, there is going to be a lot of wine involved on Saturday.
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