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You’ll never guess which Strictly star this little girl grew up to be

She looks completely unrecognisable!

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A super adorable photo has emerged of one of this year’s Strictly Come Dancing hopefuls.

She is known for her presenting work on two ITV lunchtime shows and for hosting one of them with her Irish hubby.

Can you guess which presenter this super-sweet little girl grew up to be?

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It’s This Morning and Loose Women star Ruth Langsford.

The 57-year-old was left cringing on Friday’s This Morning after the throwback Christmas snap was shown to viewers.

The photo shows Ruth playing with a brand new doll and sporting a nurse’s fancy dress outfit.

And the star looked barely recognisable with her adorable freckles and super short fringe which was poking out of her cap.

Her husband Eamonn Holmes decided to share the pic with fans.

Eamonn revealed that all of this year’s Strictly stars have had their childhood photos printed on the front page of the Daily Mirror newspaper.

He told viewers: “Picked up a newspaper this morning and there was a whole thing about those people who are on Strictly and what they were like when they were youngsters.

“And amazingly very few of them have changed.”

“There’s all these young children and then there’s the simple one,” he added, pointing out Ruth’s photo.

As Ruth giggled Eamonn went on to brand Ruth’s hairstyle back then as “awful”.

He said: “You can recognise everyone else but darling I couldn’t recognise you.”

Ruth jumped in saying: “Look at my big freckles like cornflakes!

“That was one of my happiest moments in my life.

“The nurse’s outfit was what I asked Father Christmas to bring but the best present of all was the farmyard that my dad made for me,” as she pointed out the sweet gift which was in the background of the picture.

But Eamonn still couldn’t take his eyes of Ruth’s haircut.

He joked: “That’s all lovely, but whoever carried out that haircut, were they arrested?”

As well as her role on the ITV show Ruth is busy practicing her moves for the launch of Strictly this Saturday.

Despite saying being on the dance competition has always been her dream, Ruth admitted before Strictly started that she’d had last minute nerves about signing up, thinking she was “too old and too fat” to compete.

She told The Sun: “I had a real jitter. I got up very early yesterday and did that thing of, ‘err, what day is it? Where am I supposed to be?’

“Then every negative thought I could possibly think about doing Strictly suddenly was there.

“I was thinking I haven’t trained enough, I’m too fat, I’m too old, I’m too busy, I can’t do it.”

But the presenter has plenty of support from her Loose Women colleagues, viewers and, of course, Eamonn, who has already jokingly warned her dancing partner Anton Du Beke to “take care” of his wife!

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Ahead of tomorrow night’s show Ruth admitted she’s starting to feel the nerves during today’s This Morning.

Eamonn, 57, said: “It’s her first big night. How are you feeling?”

Ruth replied: “I’m feeling really, really scared.”

We’re sure she’ll be amazing!


Rebecca Carter
Associate Editor (News)

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