Dani Dyer is beaming as she’s seen heading to Strictly Come Dancing rehearsals for the first time ahead of launch show

The former Love Island winner, 29, is among the celebrities taking to the dancefloor for the upcoming season in the hopes of lifting the famous glitterball. 

Dani was beaming as she was spotted arriving at the rehearsal room for the very first time on Wednesday. 

The TV star, who married West Ham ace Jarrod Bowen earlier this year, swapped her usual Essex glam for a more laid-back look as she made her way into the London studios.

Dani wore a pair of brown skintight leggings and a ribbed white t-shirt for training, as well as carrying a grey fluffy jacket. She came prepared with an array of essentials for the day, including extra clothes and a make-up bag. 

Also pictured at the studio on Wednesday was professional dancer Nikita Kuzmin.  

It comes just days after Dani said she’s looking forward to feeling ‘sexy’ again after signing up for Strictly.

She told The Daily Mail she’s using the BBC One dance show as an excuse to wear barely-there outfits, admitting she toned down her racy side when she first made her TV breakthrough on Love Island.

Since her stint on the ITV2 dating series, Dani has married West Ham and England striker Jarrod Bowen, much to the delight of her Hammers’ fan dad, fellow TV star Danny – and the glamorous podcaster has assured her husband he has nothing to worry about when it comes to the show’s infamous ‘curse.’

Now, a mother of three, Dani says she just wants to focus on having fun – and showing fans her hidden, raunchier side.

‘I can’t wait to feel a bit sexy!’ she said. ‘I’ve been a mum, you know what I mean, I’ve been so deep in motherhood, my eldest is four now and the sexy thing, I’m like, am I sexy?

‘When I was on Love Island, I never wore the thong bikinis or anything, I’m like, Dan, why didn’t I do that? Do you know what? I’m going to push the boundaries.’

And on the Strictly curse, Dani said her husband Jarrod, 28, will be more nervous about being filmed in the audience, than the prospect of his wife of just three-and-a-half months straying.

Dani, mother to son Santiago, four, from her relationship with ex-boyfriend Sammy Kimmence, and one-year-old twins Summer and Star, with Jarrod, says Strictly will be her biggest challenge since she appeared on Love Island in 2018.

She added: ‘I’m newly married and we’re so good, know what I mean? He’s such a shy person, Jarrod, so when he gets there and they put the camera on him…

‘I am absolutely nervous of course, it’s normal to be nervous but it’s like channeling your nerves. I am so excited because it just feels more real now.

‘This is one of the biggest shows I have done since Love Island and obviously on Love Island you are so protected in a villa with loads of other people and you get through and you think “ah, they like us as a couple” and that was seven years ago. 

‘For me, this is massive and I’m just going to try and pretend it’s not live and enjoy it as much as possible.’ 

Joining Jarrod in the studio will inevitably be her father Danny, 48, who scooped his first BAFTA TV Award this year. 

And Dani hopes seeing her in action on the dance floor may tempt the former EastEnders star to show off dance moves of his own. 

She said: ‘My dad is so excited for me. He loves the show, and he has come before to support Rose (Ayling-Ellis) when she was doing it, and he was emotional then so he’s saying he has got to keep it together when he watches it. He’s over the moon for me. 

‘He absolutely loved my wedding day so much and watching me dance, he will really enjoy it. He loves to dance himself. I need to get him up dancing, absolutely.’ 

Dani admits she does have some previous dance experience but was quick to stress it was only as part of a weekly dance club when she was younger, brushing off any suggestion she has an advantage over her fellow competitors.

She explained: ‘I was little when I did dancing, and I loved it so much, I went to a little dance school in the east end on a Tuesday and Thursday but when I became a teenager, I just stopped it.

‘The only thing I remembered during rehearsals was the step ball change, I was like, I remember that. ‘When you look at the professional dancers I was like, I’m in the wrong career, I should have been a dancer, but I can’t move that well.’