Author Cathy Kelly revealed as the tenth star to join RTÉ One’s Dancing With The Stars

Author Cathy Kelly spoke to Dáithí O’Sé and Emer O’Neill on Today this afternoon to tell them of her excitement of joining the celebrity cast of the new series of Dancing with the Stars which begins next month on RTÉ One.

Beginning her career as a journalist, Cathy Kelly wrote for the Sunday World where she worked as an agony aunt and film critic. However, writing fiction was always her passion and in 1997, her debut novel, Woman to Woman was published. Since then, Cathy has been delighting readers across the world with her female-centric fiction with a new book nearly every year. She has written 20 best-selling novels over the last 25 years and at one point was outselling J.K Rowling and Dan Brown in the UK. She describes herself as an exhibitionist and loves the idea of putting herself out there and learning a new challenge. Cathy is mother to twin sons who will sit their Leaving Cert next year and she resides in Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow.

Cathy says: “I’m very proud to take part in Dancing with the Stars.  It’s the fun and the joy of it.  I’ve always wanted to learn how to dance so this is my big chance to do it.” 

Stay tuned for more news and announcements ahead of the new series returning in January.