Ireland’s favourite newsreader is leaving her home, husband and highflying lifestyle behind to spend 12 gruelling weeks foxtrotting, chasséing and quick-stepping to an average weekly audience of 518,000 on Dancing with the Stars — what could possibly go wrong?

Television presenter Gráinne Seoige may have been in New York yesterday to launch her latest venture, but she is now all about big carats rather than the Big Apple.