Disco diva Elise Claire is a fully-fledged Dancing Queen - at age three.

The youngster, of Field Avenue, Blackbird Leys, took to the floor as soon as she could walk.

Now she has won medals in two national disco contests.

Mum Lisa, 24, said: "Dancing is her life and she seems an absolute natural. We have music on all the time and she dances round the front room constantly.

"When we are in shops she gets up on steps and starts dancing as if it is a stage. She always gets an audience."

Lisa began taking Elise to dance classes run by friend and neighbour Kelly Chandler when she was aged just 15 months.

Kelly said: "She is fantastic, a real child prodigy. The routines are more complicated than anything the Spice Girls do yet she picks them up so quickly. She is so clever and confident for a three-year-old."

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