Sitting in a bath of beans just doesn't cut it anymore.
Raising money for Comic Relief is now a serious(ish) business. Well, as serious as dancing like a loon for 24 hours gets, anyway.
Dermot O'Leary has bravely - or unwisely, we're not sure which - volunteered to maintain a boogie for an entire day, starting tonight at 7.20pm on The One Show.
Digital Spy spoke to Dermot a couple of days before his Day of Dance, and as the challenge loomed, the X Factor presenter was sort of starting to regret his decision...
"If I'm honest with you, there's a little part of me that just goes, 'Why did I do this?' Because what I keep doing is looking at my watch and going, 'What was I doing 24 hours ago?' And thinking I'll have to have danced from then to now.
"I've got to stop doing that, because it's an awful, terrifying prospect. I steer between excitement and sheer terror on a minute by minute basis."
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How did doing this challenge come about?
"I was at a friend's birthday a few months ago and at 3am I just said, 'We've been dancing for a while - do you reckon I could dance for 24 hours?'
"And stupidly, rather than internalising that thought, I texted Comic Relief that night. And then they texted me back the next morning and said, 'Great - we're on!' And suddenly it feels like we've time travelled and we're here."
When you were sober, did you think of something alternative to do instead?
"Yeah, well I wish I'd done that now! It was one of those 3am calls. If you get the option at 3am to call anyone, you should never do it, should you? And we've all done that with ex-girlfriends and ex-boyfriends..."
How long have you danced for in one go so far while training?
"Well, it's a hard thing to train for. So I haven't really trained as intensely as probably I wanted to, but I did about 5 or 6 hours straight with a little break with a choreographer a couple of weeks ago and that felt pretty good.
"Obviously there's going to be periods where it's quite intense and periods where it isn't intense at all. So I think I need to pace myself, that's the key."
Very important question - have you thought about how you're going to go to the toilet? Will you still be dancing at the urinal?
"I think there's going to be a lot of swaying, which might be a bad idea. But I'll just employ the tactics of the fairer sex, if you know what I mean...
"That's a roundabout way of saying I'll probably be sat down."
Are you going to change your clothes, too?
"Yeah, I've got a few changes involved - I'm going at it from a Gaga / Rihanna perspective. But it's hard because you get pretty hot pretty quick if you dance like I dance."
Are you doing the Day of Dance to appease X Factor fans, because if you give them a huge amount of Dermot Dancing now, you won't get hassle if you don't do any in the next series of the show?
"Exactly. Hopefully it will mean a lot of brownie points on that score.
"It's a funny one, because you do these dances - there were a couple of times last series where it genuinely happened that 30 seconds before the show goes live, out of nowhere, four of the dancing girls appeared and they stood next to me and I was like, 'What are we doing?'
"And they said, 'Someone said we were doing a dance at the start,' and I said, 'Well no-one told me!' So I went out on live television not knowing what I was doing or any choreographed moves or anything.
"And then of course you go on Twitter and people are like, 'Eugh, you idiot, you can't dance'. And I'm like, 'No s**t!'"
Do you rue the day you started dancing on The X Factor, and wish you'd never started it?
"Sort of. Because the weeks you don't do it - and I don't do it every week - you get people just going, 'Why aren't you dancing? Dermot's so boring, he needs to dance all the time - he's not dancing anymore'.
"And then when you do, you get people going, 'What are you dancing for, you idiot?'. You can never really please all of the people. But hey, welcome to social media."
You said the X Factor meeting about the new series would be happening in February, so what was the result of that?
"We haven't done it yet!"
You've said before you'd like to keep going back to the show…
"Yeah, as long as I'm enjoying it. Because every year they want to make changes and you always need to know before you commit what those changes are going to be, because if those changes are, 'Don't use Dermot so much' then you've got a bit of an issue!
"So you just want to sit down and have chats really, because Simon's all about reinvention and all about evolving the show so you want to see where you fit into that, and to be fair to him he's always been very good at letting me get on with my job and not really interfering.
"You always need assurances before you start, but any changes he makes he always makes for the good of the show and for the most part he makes a good call so you have to respect that."
You can't do Strictly Come Dancing while you're presenting X Factor... but if you weren't going to come back for the show, would you want to put your Day of Dance training to good use in future and sign up for the show?
"Never! Never, man. You cut me and I bleed X! I couldn't. Strictly are a very lovely, cuddly, benevolent enemy... but they're still the enemy! I couldn't do it."
Caroline Flack did it!
"She did very well - but she is a very good dancer! I'm so impressed with her. I always knew she could dance - but she can really move!"
Dermot O'Leary's Danceathon for Comic Relief starts tonight at 7.20pm on The One Show. You can follow Dermot's every move on BBC Radio 2 and the Red Button. Visit rednoseday.com/Dermot for more information and to donate.
