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Sarah Hadland is one of four remaining contestants competing in this year’s Strictly Come Dancing the grand finale.
The actor, 53, has been tipped to take part in the BBC’s popular dance competition in 2024 on ITV Lorraine in August, in addition to the first ones The X Factor contestant Shayne Wardand revealed that she can’t wait to start the show.
“I can’t believe I’m a part of it Strictly!” Hadland said. “I feel particularly excited to be a part of such an iconic show in its 20th year.”
Hadland is best known for being one of the original cast members of the CBBC sketch show Horrible Histories and for her role as joke shop manager Stevie Sutton on the BBC sitcom Mirandain which she starred alongside series lead Miranda Hart, as well as Tom Ellis and Patricia Hodge.
The actress previously revealed that at first she didn’t think she would get along with Hart: “I hadn’t been to university or drama school. I’ve been told a gazillion times, ‘You’re not going to be an actress’” she said in an interview with The Observer in 2013
“I remember looking her up on the Internet and thinking, ‘We have nothing in common; you are classy.”
But Hadland later admitted she had misjudged her colleagues: “I feel lucky to have done a job that has given me a good friend for life,” she said. The sun. “I would love to do another series, but it’s up to Miranda because she’s writing the series.”
Hadland grew up in Hertfordshire and got involved in youth theater while at school in Cheshire. After leaving home at 16, she trained at Laine Theater Arts College in Epsom, Surrey and made her screen debut with a minor role in the second series of a political sitcom. The Thick of Italong with Peter Capaldi and Chris Addison.
Like her mate Strictly 2024 contestant Tasha Ghouri, Hadland already has some dance experience, having trained in ballet since she was three. Before landing an acting role, she began her career dancing in West End musicals including Cats and Grease when she was 19 years old.
The Doctor Who star and Hadland’s close friend Alex Kingston called out earlier Miranda actress for her dance training, saying: “Sarah Hadland and I were talking about how much we’d like to work Strictly Come Dancing. Then I discovered that she was actually a trained ballet dancer. ‘Wait a minute! That’s not fair!’ So I can’t do it in the season she’s in.”
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The Miranda the star has also had roles in the BBC drama Waterloo Roadsketch show by David Mitchell and Robert Webb That Mitchell and Webb Look and the 2008 James Bond epic Quantum of Solace.
Away from work, Hadland keeps fit by running. “My paternal grandfather was a reserve runner for the British Olympic team, so I like to think it’s in my genes,” she previously said. The Times. “I finished two London marathons in less than four hours.
“The initial resistance to exercise is weird, but I push myself to do it, and then the endorphins kick in.”