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Former footballer Karen Carney blew Strictly Come Dancing fans away with her first live show performance at the weekend. The sports journalist, 38, and her professional dance partner Carlos Gu's Jive to One Way or Another impressed the audiences in the studio and at home. ‌

However, what fans of the BBC show may not have realised is that Karen actually already has a dancing background from her earlier years before becoming a football player. In an old interview with the FA, she said: "I enjoyed football when I was a kid and had loads of kickabouts but I didn’t join my first club until I was 11. Until then, it was all about dancing for me." ‌

Her dance training would see Karen perfect her routines for three hours every Saturday and also revealed she took

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