Lisa Snowdon 'upset' by press claims

Lisa Snowdon has admitted that she was horrified when she was accused of being a bad loser following her Strictly Come Dancing stint.

The model was quoted as saying that victor Tom Chambers "shouldn't have won" following the show's final in December.

However, in a new interview with Take 5 magazine, she insisted: "That really upset me - I didn't say he shouldn't have won. We're all friends and spent four months together. Yes, it was a competition but we didn't go over the top with it."

Snowdon's routines with professional dancer Brendan Cole proved popular with the programme's judges, but the pair frequently found themselves in the dance-off after failing to pick up support from the public.

Asked how she coped with the setbacks, she explained: "I did feel a bit vulnerable. Obviously I knew that's the way the show works, and that some people might not know who I was. I don't have an existing fanbase like some of the others. But it did test me."