It's not every day I get to meet showbiz legends – so I'm sure you can imagine my excitement when I had the honour of meeting tap-dancing greats The Clark Brothers at the dapper duo's Dunstable bungalow.

Not only that, but I also had the pleasure of dancing the Rang Dang Do with octogenarian Steve Clark – a real treat!

Unfortunately his older brother Jimmy is not in the best of health and so was unable to join in our twinkle-toed tap. But I was thrilled to have had the opportunity to meet both variety show masters.

Steve, who has worked with queen of tap Eleanor Powell and taught Bonnie Langford, Bruce Forsyth and Dickie Henderson to dance, said: "Tapping is basically sound. It's like a violin or a pianist. If you do something loud in tapping the general public thinks that that's going to be the finish."

And Steve, whose cousin was the late Sammy Davis Jr, is full of wise words and advice which come from a lifetime in the entertainment business. He said: "You need to have something different to the others, that's what the whole thing is all about."