Janette Manrara (Part One)
Walking The Dog with Emily Dean
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🗓️ 10 September 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Today we’re in South London’s Burgess Park with television presenter, choreographer and professional dancer Janette Manrara - and we have a very special bonus guest - her daughter Lyra!
Janette is best known for appearing as a professional dance on Strictly Come Dancing - and since 2021 she has co-hosted Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two! Janette is married to her Strictly co-star Aljaž Škorjanec and their daughter Lyra was born in July 2023 - we think she was pretty taken by Raymond (and the geese!)
Janette has a history with dogs back at home in Miami - but life as a performing family means that she doesn’t have a dog at the moment… but there may be one in the future!
After her family immigrated from Cuba to Miami, Janette tells us about being a happy child in a happy household and how that gave her a positive outlook on life. She tells the story of how she went from working in a bank to becoming a professional dancer - and what happened when she met Aljaž for the first time… was it love at first sight?!
Tiny Dancer, Big World: How to Find Fulfilment from the Inside Out is out on Thursday 12th September - you can buy your copy here
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Walking The Dog is produced by Faye Lawrence
Music: Rich Jarman
Artwork: Alice Ludlam
Photography: Karla Gowlett
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm on holiday this week, scuba diving in the Caribbean. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm going to be underwater most of the time, so if you want me you might have to learn whale. |
| 0:16.0 | Hmm. |
| 0:19.0 | Yours, Lucy. |
| 0:24.0 | Take your holiday as seriously as British Airways |
| 0:28.0 | take your holiday. |
| 0:29.0 | Out of protected. |
| 0:32.0 | The only thing we argue about is choreographic because I will want to do a step one way |
| 0:38.0 | Ali Ash will want to do it another way and I'm going no but the music is saying |
| 0:42.0 | this and he's going but I feel it should be that and then as soon as we get together and we dance it |
| 0:46.7 | it's the best feeling in the world it's like the dancing becomes our therapy and we forget about everything that just happened when we were queer graphing it. |
| 0:54.3 | This week on Walking the Dog, Raymond and I went for a stroll with TV presenter, choreographer and dancer |
| 0:59.9 | Jeanette Manrara, who you'll obviously know from her appearances as a dance professional on |
| 1:05.5 | strictly come dancing alongside her husband fellow dancer Aliash and her role presenting |
| 1:11.8 | its spin-off show It Takes Two. |
| 1:14.0 | Jeanette currently lives in Cheshire, but we met up when she was down in London for the day in |
| 1:19.0 | Southwark's Burgess Park and we had a bit of a bonus guest this week because Jeanette brought along |
| 1:25.1 | her and Ali Ash's one-year-old daughter Lyra who was genuinely one of the |
| 1:30.0 | most charming and well-behaved one-year-olds I've ever met in my entire life. |
| 1:34.8 | And unsurprisingly, she's already strutting around like a true dance pro. |
| 1:39.5 | Jeanette and I had such a lovely chat on old walk. |
| 1:42.3 | She told me all about her childhood growing up with |
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