Strictly contestant Dr Punam Krishan wears her high heeled dancing shoes to her work as a GP to break them in

Her demanding role as a GP in a busy Glasgow medical practice means Dr Punam Krishan spends a lot of time on her feet.

However, the TV medic – who is taking part in this year’s Strictly Come Dancing – has revealed that rather than cushioning her under-pressure feet, she is wearing her dancing shoes during the working day to break them in.

The 41 year old, who is married to Scottish Conservative MSP Dr Sandesh Gulhane, said her dancing coach advised her to wear her high-heeled dancing shoes as much as possible so they are more comfortable during training.

In a video filmed in her medical practice and posted online, Dr Krishan discussed the feedback she received from her first session.

Dr Punam Krishan is preparing for the early rounds of this years Strictly Come Dancing.

She said: ‘Obviously you know that I am training in the evenings for all things Strictly at the moment and the feedback that I’ve had after my first day of training has been that I really need to break in my dancing shoes in order to prevent them being as sore as they were and to also stop blisters.

‘So, I’ve had to get a little bit creative and work with the time that I’ve got. I’ve had to bring them to work with me. So, as you can see they’re really high. Not very comfortable at all. Very tight.

‘And when you’ve been dancing in them for a few hours I can’t tell you how sore the toes are. So, I’m just going to be rockin’ my scrubs and my sandals.

‘So, I wonder how that will go down with the patients as I go clickety clackety down the corridors. But you’ve gotta do what you’ve gotta do to get through.

‘So that’s what I’m working with today: scrubs, stethoscopes, sandals.’

Dr Krishan is married to fellow GP and Scottish Conservative MSP Dr Sandesh Gulhane, who she married in 2011.

The couple have a son Aarish, 11, and a daughter Ellora, four, as well as a pet cockapoo.

The TV medic showed off the dancing shoes she is wearing to her day job as a GP

Dr Krishan is married to Scottish Conservative MSP Dr Sandesh Gulhane

She has previously discussed how she experienced a near-death experience aged 30 when she suffered massive blood loss and then sepsis following the birth of her son.

The terrifying incident saw her spend seven days on a ventilator in intensive care.

Her hectic schedule sees her work Monday to Thursday as a GP in an NHS practice in Glasgow before travelling down to Manchester for her stint as the resident doctor on BBC Morning Live.

As well as being a working GP and a TV medic, Dr Krishan writes children’s books.

Dr Krishan and her younger sister were born and grew up in a tenement flat in the west end of Glasgow after their parents moved to Scotland from Punjab in India in the late 1970.

They shared the flat with their grandparents, uncles and aunts and cousins.

And their strong work ethic was instilled in them by their parents who ran a newsagents that was open seven days a week.

Every day Dr Krishan, her sister and her mother would walk to the shop to see her father, and would take a detour past the city’s university.

The couple, who married in 2011, have two children together

Dr Krishan was pictured as she came out of Strictly rehearsals in Glasgow

Dr Krishan said her mother, who had wanted to be a doctor when she was younger, would always say: ‘You will come here one day, and you’ll do medicine’.

As it turned out, both Dr Krishan and her younger sister, who both attended Notre Dame High School, studied medicine at Glasgow University before embarking on careers as GPs.

Dr Krishan loved her time at the university – especially the ‘cheesy pop’ nights held at the Queen Margaret Union.

After graduating, she moved to London for a few years, but has said she ‘quickly came back’ because she missed the people of Glasgow.

And, while she grew up in Glasgow, Dr Krishan kept in touch with her heritage through annual family holidays to her mother’s home city of Kapurthala in the heart of Punjab in India when she was growing up.

She previously said her mum ‘has been the glue between me and my culture and heritage’.

However, her favourite place in the world is Uist in the Outer Hebrides where she hopes to one day settle.