Strictly Come Dancing star Natalie Cassidy is worried that she will put all the weight she has lost on the show back on when when she stops dancing. The actress has lost a stone while training for the show.

She is partnered with Italian-born professional dancer Vincent Simone.

She told Chris Moyles on his Radio 1 show: "I'm really worried that when I finish I'm going to get really fat again.

"I'm dancing for six hours every day.

"I'm going to have to start going to the gym again [when it's over] but I can't bear it."

Cassidy recently revealed that she is also concerned how she will balance her Strictly training with her return to EastEnders.

The actress is to begin filming on the soap next week has said that she thought she would have been out of the dance contest by now.

She told Radio 1: "I'm going to be so busy - when I said I'd go back [to EastEnders] for a little while I didn't think that I'd still be dancing.

"I really thought I'd be gone by now. It's going to be a bit manic."