Quotes from Kelvin Fletcher

I was eight years old and I was playing rugby for my local club.

I've gone through my adolescence on TV so it's pretty cringey when I look back on some pictures and scenes, but that's part and parcel of being a child actor and growing up.

Yeah I had the poof thing before the acting because I did ballet.

I always liked dancing and you'd go to class and find you had an hour acting and an hour of ballet.

What was weird, as a 12-year-old actor, was being expected to behave like an adult while still being treated as a kid everywhere else.

It's funny how you can say performing is in the blood, and if I'm considered a performer being an actor, then it's certainly in the blood.

Let's not forget that I am an actor and I'm a real budding, enthusiastic and ambitious actor.

As for cooking, I like making lasagne and spaghetti Bolognese, I have perfected my porridge, and I like making Sunday roasts.

I find it funny that I'm a pin-up.

With the waltz, especially the Viennese Waltz, it looks so beautiful and effortless and flows.

Carbs get a bad press, but they're pretty important.

I've always had aspirations to play other characters, but over the years I've always felt so happy and so challenged at 'Emmerdale.'

A family with two kids and a dog, however cheesy it might sound, that's what I want.

I have plans to send my little daughter and son into dancing because I'd love for them to enjoy it too.

I'd love nothing more to play a strong leading male in a Marvel thing. I read they are about to make comic book hero Captain Britain and I thought that would be an amazing part to play.

Australia has the British way of life - and great weather. I could live there.

We're pretty sure Liz fell pregnant on our wedding night.

My experience of dancing is exclusively at weddings or parties with alcohol involved and in the dark.

I've had women telling me I'm bloody gorgeous but I haven't had any kinky pictures. Everything's been quite tame - from the women!

When I arrived at 'Emmerdale,' Clive was the one person I got really starstruck about. It was weird, I was there with my dad and he said, 'There's Jack Sugden.' He was lovely, very welcoming and absolutely massive.

I thought I had a pretty good American accent but I had a few sessions with a voice coach over there and she was picking up on a few things. Possibly because I've got such a strong Northern accent, I emphasise the wrong part of words so the idea is to work on my American accent.

I've got a three-year-old daughter. To picture her being a dancer, I'd absolutely love that. I'm in absolute awe of what they do. Just seeing them work, they're incredible.

Maybe in another life I would have liked to have been a dancer. But I was a cheeky chappy who wanted to be an actor.

I knew I wanted to marry Liz the day I met her. Deep down I knew she was The One.