Charlie Bruce (19) is the youngest of 14 dancers who made it through nation-wide auditions to reach the live show stage. Dancers were invited to participate in auditions which took place during October.

The successful finalists are now set to fight for their places in weekly, live shows at BBC's Television Centre.

The live shows will begin on Saturday, January 9, following the show's televised launch this Saturday. There will six live shows in all followed by a separate live results show.

The series winner will receive a £100,000 cash prize plus a once-in-a-lifetime chance to dance in Hollywood on the US version of the show.

But in order to get there, competitors will be pushed right out of their comfort zones.

Each week they'll be challenged to master different styles of dance such as hip hop, jazz, Broadway, lyrical and contemporary with a new routine taught by a different choreographer and mentor. The competitors will also dance in pairs.

Not only will they be striving to impress a panel of industry-renowned judges, including star maker and head judge Nigel Lythgoe and choreographer and former Strictly Come Dancing judge Arlene Phillips, viewers will have the ultimate power to vote for their favourite dancer at the end of each live show.

Charlie, a former Sherard Primary School pupil, lived in Burton Lazars when she was younger and used to train at the Lacey School of Dance in Syston and the Charnwood School of Dance.

She now lives in Beckenham, Kent. At 19 she is the youngest dancer in the competition.

Charlie's dancing ability, potential and award-winning performances were regularly featured in the Melton Times in the late 1990s and in 2000.

At the tender age of eight she had already set her sights of one day performing on stage in the West End.

She began dancing aged just three and started lessons properly aged seven. By the time she was nine, her talent was recognised and she took up a scholarship to Arts Educational School where she trained before moving on to Laine Theatre Arts.

She has starred in panto but has yet to score a role in a West End musical. Her dream role would be Roxie in Chicago.

She said: "I'm so eager to show everyone what I can do and I'm just so grateful that I have this opportunity. I'm so ecstatic to be here and show people what I can do."