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Australian Comedian Felicity Ward has said she is looking forward to appearing in her own country’s version strictly come dance This is the hardest thing I have ever done.
Appearing on this week’s episode of like it, like it Podcast, Ward talks to host Lucy McInerney About what the mental challenge of coming forward is like dancing with the stars Being diagnosed with anxiety fifteen years ago was the hardest hurdle to overcome on the show.
Each week, the podcast invites guests to share books, movies, and more. tv show And podcast They can’t stop recommending – and that’s why they’ve gained so much popularity. This week, Ward, who is currently starring in the Australian version of Office, Shares her love of classic sitcoms frasier and the time-hopping novels of Tom Robbins Jitterbug Perfume,
talking about my time dancing with the starsOn whether he and his professional partner Eric Yegudkin reached the final in 2025, Ward said the mental challenge of competing on the show was worth the reward.
“It changed my life – it’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done”, Ward said.
“It wasn’t a physical thing — the physical thing was hard — it was the mental thing: ‘You’re going to humiliate yourself, you’re not going to get better, you’re going to forget everything, even though you just learned it,'” she explained.
Ward detailed his personal struggles, saying: “It’s been a very difficult five or six years for me.
“I had a baby four months before I suffered from post-natal depression. When my son was two months old, I worked in Australia and got shot, which resulted in Covid and I had to go back to the UK as an emergency. I have also gone through a separation, my son’s father and I have separated. I was a single mother in London, I have no family here.”
She added: “It’s been really, really challenging and I thought life was going to be tragic, which is so contrary to the person I am because I’m quite happy. I didn’t realize I’d resigned myself to this.”
“When it’s done dancing with the starsWe filmed the whole series over 23 days, nine episodes, so we were recording an episode every three or four days, so it retrained my mind to ‘things can be stressful and incredible at the same time’ and every time I danced I felt very powerful.
Ward, 45, first tried her hand at acting but found greater success in comedy, performing at several festivals in Australia. She gained widespread attention from the sketch show Ronnie Johns Half Hour. She has also appeared on chakachak, thank god you’re here and Good news week.
In recent years she has returned to acting, landing roles in the inbetweeners 2, letdown and as Hannah Howard in the recent Australian version. Office,
like it, like it It’s available wherever you get your podcasts, with new episodes released every Thursday.