I’ll dance at the drop of a hat now but I really don’t care if I put on 15 stone
Comic Katherine gives up diet
Serena Kelly Katherine on Dancing With The Stars Vodafone Comedy festival is on way
The Leitrim woman lost a stone competing on the RTE weight loss show and another stone and a half competing on the hit dance show last year but has now turned her back on shedding the pounds.
Katherine told the Irish Sunday Mirror: “My weight totally fluctuates. Look it was great to have the best people to keep an eye on you but once the cameras go off I’m back eating a bit of this, that, and the other and drinking wine.
“I don’t actually give a f***ing s**t, if I put on 15 stone. At the moment people say, ‘Oh you look brilliant Katherine’ because it’s in their head that I lost weight, but it’s great because I don’t have to lose it anymore.”
The 45-year old said she’s kept up dancing but not to the same level since taking part on the show.
She added: “Dancing in the disco bumpa to bumpa is about all I do now but I do my Zumba classes and I’m great.
“But it’s really hard to recreate that four hours of having a profes- sional dancer around you all the time, but I’d get up and dance now at the drop of a hat, I do have the bug now.”
Katherine performs at the Vodafone Comedy festival with more than 120 acclaimed acts at Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens from July 26 to 29.
The line-up includes Tommy Tiernan, Jason Byrne, Deirdre O’kane, Alison Spittle and Aisling Bea. Katherine admitted the amount of female talent is better than ever.
She said: “That’s what equality is about, the natural progression where more women are doing more comedy now, it’s really like come on the girls.
“It’s great for the lads too because it just makes the festival more fun, you know.” Katherine brings her hilarious character Traveller Bernie Walsh to the festival who’ll be talking all things World Cup with commentary on the Pope’s imminent visit. Commenting on whether her characters get her into trouble she said: “I don’t think my characters are controversial, I think they’re very ordinary and a bit of craic.”
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Dancing in the disco bumpa to bumpa is about all I do now KATHERINE LYNCH
ON HER MOVES