Penny Smith has admitted that nerves have been getting the better of her ever since the dress rehearsal for the new BBC show’ Just The Two Of Us’ on saturday.

Penny said: “After Saturday’s dress rehearsal I can’t stop giggling. I’ve gone into hysterical meltdown.

“After the rehearsal I laughed and laughed so much there was no moisture in my body because I was crying. I just couldn’t stop.

“I’ve discovered I don’t sing as well as everybody else, but then I’m the only person who hasn’t been taught how to sing. I’m the only total novice there.

“The only reason I agreed to do it was because I thought everyone else would be a novice, but they all either learned how to sing because they are actors or have sung in bands. I’ve only sung in the church choir and while giving out pints at a folk club.”

Despite her fears of making a fool of herself, the bookies yesterday made her and Curtis Stigers third favourite – with William Hill offering odds of 5/1.

This isn’t Pennys first time on arelaity Tv show though. In 2004 she appeared as Debbie Harry singing Denis in a celebrity special of Stars In Their Eyes.

She said: “I hated it so much and was so awful. I’ve never seen it. I loved dressing up. I was having really good fun until the moment it came to sing and then I wished I’d never done it.”

So why is she doing this? She said: “It’s duets so I felt a little more protected, but now I can’t even pretend to be someone else!”

But then she shrugged: “It’s not that I’m going to miss every single note. I can get the high notes. I just can’t do the wobbly bits. They are all show-offs and I’m not. I could karate chop my throat frantically throughout the whole song to make my voice wobble.”

“My agent said: ‘I’m coming along on Thursday to support you’. I said: ‘Come on the last night’. And he said: ‘What, do you think you’ll win?’

“I told him: ‘No my last night. . . Friday’.”