{"id":70756,"date":"2023-11-04T07:20:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T07:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montelagocelticfestival.com\/?p=70756"},"modified":"2023-11-04T07:20:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T07:20:40","slug":"kate-silverton-spills-real-motivation-behind-strictly-stint-before-quitting-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montelagocelticfestival.com\/celebrity\/kate-silverton-spills-real-motivation-behind-strictly-stint-before-quitting-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Silverton spills real motivation behind Strictly stint before quitting BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Strictly: Dancer gets STUCK under Kate Silverton\u2019s dress<\/h3>\n

Kate Silverton has exclusively admitted she said yes to Strictly Come Dancing in order to build a second career away from the BBC newsroom.<\/p>\n

The TV presenter, who is now a qualified child therapist, told Express.co.uk that taking part in the dance competition in 2018 had allowed her to begin making moves to \u201cfollow her passion\u201d in life.<\/p>\n

Three years after finishing in eighth place with her professional dance partner Aljaz Skorjanec, Kate quit her role on BBC News.<\/p>\n

Sharing her true motivation for signing up to Strictly, Kate admitted: \u201cI\u2019ve always looked forward and I was just following my passion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did Strictly with a view – because it wouldn’t have been my natural leaning, as much as I loved it – but I did it really because I’d sort of had those seeds of wanting to create a second career.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was talking about children’s mental health – I didn’t see it as a career, I see it as my life’s work – and I knew I wanted to talk about children’s mental health.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I thought, well, that’s a really good way of having a platform to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the time, Kate also confided in Aljaz about her hopes to pursue working in child psychology.<\/p>\n

The star revealed she and the Slovenian dance champion are still in touch and that she was delighted to hear he and wife Janette Manrara had fallen pregnant with their first baby, Lyra Rose, who was born in July this year.<\/p>\n

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