I'm going to make Fire smoking hot..

SHE has set the Strictly ballroom alight with her sizzling routines and now Olympian Montell Douglas has vowed to bring that same Fire to the next series of Gladiators.

- MARK JEFFERIES and KATIE BEGLEY

The Team GB athlete earned an army of new fans after being cast as Gladiator Fire when the iconic 90s show returned last year.

But for the last 10 weeks she has been dazzling on the Strictly dancefloor - and Montell believes all the tricks she has learned from professional partner Johannes Radebe will make her a better Gladiator.

The former sprinter, 38, says: "I'm learning how to be more fire, like the adjective fire, from Johannes in particular, but definitely from Strictly."

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And she reveals Johannes has given her Fire pose a Strictly makeover.

Montell says: "Johannes has already re-choreographed because he can't help himself my whole Fire move! "You might see more toes pointed in my trainers. You might see a bit more sass! "It's important, though, because it is a sport entertainment show, it's not the Olympic Games, which, as a sportswoman, I had to learn being on the show.

"This is not really a winand-lose situation. It's about family entertainment. It's about bringing the family together towards something that inspires children and people alike across the UK. So that's what I hone into." She was already super-fit, yet three months of a gruelling Strictly training schedule has left her body smaller than in the last series of Gladiators.