Sarah, Duchess of York has done an about turn and decided she won't appear on American TV show Dancing With The Stars.

Prince Andrew's ex-wife had led producers to believe she'd be interested in taking to the floor for a waltz or two before a TV audience of millions across a country she adores.

In fact, officials at the show went so far as to extend an invitation and speak publicly about the possibility of welcoming the gregarious Duchess to the show.

Now, just months later after the show's producer looked forward to welcoming the first royal onto the dancefloor, the Duchess has sent TV bosses into a spin by saying she won't, after all, be appearing, a spokesman explaining: "Although she'd love to do it, she's just too busy.”

This isn't the first time Sarah has been erroneously linked with a possible appearance on a reality TV show. In 2006, aides close to the Duchess confirmed they'd received offers from the producers of I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here! — the show in which famous faces live in the Australian 'jungle' — as well as the BBC's Come Dancing (the UK version of Dancing With The Stars).

Most intriguing was a £1 million offer Sarah reportedly knocked back to join other famous faces in the Big Brother house. The Duchess's daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, are both fans of the increasingly controversial Channel Four show.

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Name: Carol B.	Comment: How do any of you know this was actually something Sarah was considering seriously? Is it a new concept that media producers go for ratings hikes by stirring up a "possibility"? You pick and choose what to think is "true" only if it paints her in a bad light. Shame.

Name: Ganesh Vijay Parab	Comment:

Name: Kate	Comment: M-M - my thoughts exactly.. Sarah is finely using good common sense for once!Now, if only common sense is used in other areas of her life as well, i.e. where her daughters are concerned .Get these two girls off the "party circuit", and into more education....

Name: Karmen Day	Comment: I really don't see what all the hype was about if she did it. Yes she is still a duchess, but really other than that the RF don't give her the time of day, with the exception of her daughters and her ex-husband. Plus I for one would have loved to see her on that show, it would have been fun.

Name: M-M	Comment: A rare victory for common sense on the part of Sarah Ferguson