Strictly Come Dancing contestant Natalie Cassidy, has come up with a cunning plan which will see her stay on the BBC TV show.

Natalie is most famous for her role as Sonia Jackson on Eastenders. Sonia famously played the trumpet on the soap and Natalie has threatened to take up the instrument and play with the orchestra if she gets booted off the show.

An insider told The Sun: “If she gets knocked out of Strictly, she has been telling producers that she is going to learn the trumpet so she can come back.

“Everyone has just been laughing, but she swears she is serious.”