I went from professional skater to cat rescuer
Frankie spent 10 years on Dancing on Ice but now helps raise newborn rescued kittens.
What could a professional ice skater, a former England football goalkeeper and a litter of kittens possibly have in common? They're all sharing a beautiful home nestled in the heart of rural Berkshire.
Frankie Seaman, 53, wife of former England goalkeeper David Seaman, spent ten years as a professional on the TV Series Dancing on Ice, but her love of cats predates even that.
"I've been fostering cats for way longer than I've been ice skating." she says.
As she talks, a small cat bed in the corner is squeaking with the sounds of her latest arrivals - a litter of three week old kittens.
The kittens originally came to Frankie inside their mother, Luna, who watches dutifully as Frankie lifts her babies out of their bed and onto a blanket.
Luna is one of 14,000 cats fostered through Cats Protection in the UK every year and pregnant cats like her, known as queens, are Frankie's speciality.
The arrangement is temporary, Frankie provides a safe sterile environment for the kittens to be born, and then the real hard work begins.
"With kittens, it's really important that we start socialising them... from about two weeks old." she says, "because they've been brought up in a home situation, they're not going to be scared of hairdryers or hoovers or TVs or radios."
"They get all those lovely sights and sounds and they will be ready to move on to their new families soon."
