All Saints star Melanie Blatt has revealed that Strictly Come Dancing took away her confidence

All Saints star Melanie Blatt has revealed in an interview how Strictly Come Dancing took away her confidence and made her feel “vulnerable.” On Boxing Day, Melanie Blatt took to Instagram and shared a photo of herself performing in the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special.

Melanie Blatt wrote: “Well that was mental 🫨 thank you @bbcstrictly and @kaiwidd . Big up @scarlettmoffatt @babatundecomedian @brianmcfadden123 @jodieounsley @imnickbailey 🥰.”

One fan wrote: “thought you were amazing. I would be bricking it. Well done x,” whilst another said: “You did amazing Melanie, hope to see you do the whole series next year x.”

In July last year, Melanie Blatt wished her mother a happy birthday on Instagram and wrote: “Happy very premature birthday mummy !!! @heleneblatt . We love you so much and so happy your sternum has reattached to your body !! Woohoo 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰.”Melanie Blatt has now given an interview with Good Housekeeping about how taking part in the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas special took away her confidence. She said: “I felt extremely vulnerable [on the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special],” and added that “It’s taken me 50 years to feel as good as I’ve ever felt about myself and Strictly stripped it away from me.

“Nothing dodgy went on – I think they’re on their best behaviour – but I just didn’t feel comfortable in a dress.”

Melanie Blatt also discussed the dynamics of being in the band All Saints and said: “It was always a difficult relationship between the four of us.”

She also revealed that “For a start, you’ve got two sisters. Nic and I were best friends when we were 11, then Shaz and I were best friends… we could never get it right. It’s such a shame; I think if we’d got it right, we’d have been laughing. At the same time, we didn’t fake it. We didn’t pretend we were okay. And we certainly didn’t stay in the band for money.”

Sisters Nicole and Natalie Appleton have recently returned to music a decade after they first released music as a duo with Appleton. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Natalie Appleton said: “We got to see [Oasis] first time round of course and now our children got to see it, and it was so great. It was a brilliant show and just seeing the joy of the fans too – that was a show in itself…but like the 90s, I cherish all of it, personally – Appleton, All Saints – I’m just so proud that we did all of it. Every moment, the ups and downs, it’s part of our life and I wouldn’t change anything for the world.”