Nicole Scherzinger is taking her role on Dancing With The Stars seriously as she prepares to rehearse with her partner Derek Hough.

Derek tweeted a picture of the Pussycat Dolls star ready to learn with a pen and notebook to hand.

According to the Daily Mail, the pair have been getting on really well as they begin rehearsing for the show which will be shown in the UK on the Watch cable channel from 26 March.

The singer recently admitted that she has been in a lot of pain since rehearsals began.

At the Avalon nightclub's pre-Oscars party last night, the singer told the Daily Mail: “My feet are so beat up, after just a couple days of rehearsals.

“I'm not used to these shoes. Sure, I'm used to wearing seven-inch heels with the Pussycat Dolls, but this is a different style of dancing and a ballroom shoe.
“There's a lot of pain involved. But it's nothing that I'm not used to.”

Nicole, who is back together with her Formula 1 beau, Lewis Hamilton, told MTV: “Derek and I are pretty crazy. We're probably the goofiest cats ever. We were electric from the start.

“The first dance that we've been assigned is the Viennese waltz. I just learned how to say that properly - I've been calling it the Vietnamese waltz.”

Do you think nicole is at an unfair advantage as she has to dance so much in the Pussycat Dolls?