Janette Manrara gives candid glimpse at life after Strictly Come Dancing after ‘confidence knocked’

Janette Manrara candid glimpse into her life after leaving her role on Strictly Come Dancing’s spin-off show, It Takes Two

Janette Manrara has given fans a candid glimpse into her life after leaving her role on Strictly Come Dancing, which comes after she recently revealed she’d landed two new jobs.

The dancer and presenter joined the BBC One dance show back in 2013 as a professional dancer, before leaving in 2020. The following year, she took over from Zoe Ball as the host of It Takes Two, alongside Rylan Clark and then Fleur East.

But, amid a number of changes to Strictly ahead of the 2026 series, Janette confirmed in June that she had left Strictly’s spin-off series in a video posted on her YouTube account.

She said at the time: “Strictly Come Dancing has changed hugely, and I am no longer a part of It Takes Two or the main show. I’ll still be involved in other ways. But that just means that I’m free to pursue and do many other projects that I’ve always wanted to do and never really thought about doing.”

It was last week that Janette was confirmed to be in the cast of the world premiere of Affluenza, which begins performances at Riverside Studios in London on September 26 as part of the Mainstage Season. She’ll star alongside Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp, who makes his stage debut, as well as stage and screen stars Juliet Cowan and Wallis Currie-Wood.

It came after Janette also revealed that she’ll be starring in her first-ever pantomime this Christmas. Last week, she announced that she’ll be taking on the role of Tink in The All New Adventures of Peter Pan at The Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury.

But the mum-of-one has now taken to social media and given fans a glimpse at what she said were “things that humbled me lately”. In the post, Janette included a look at what it’s like looking for new work, as she admitted to going to three auditions, but booking none of the jobs. “We carry on,” she said.

Janette also admitted she questioned “whether I was good enough for a job”, which she said knocked her confidence, but she also included other life moments, including losing arguments with her three-year-old daughter, Lyra Rose, when it came to eating her dinner and watching TV.

Captioning her post, Janette wrote: “#TinyDancerBIGthoughts A little reality check because Instagram is a highlight reel. So here are some of my ‘outtakes’. Turns out being humbled is… humbling. Your turn — what humbled YOU lately?”