A LIFE on the ocean waves is calling for a teenage Consett dancer.

Before Kelly Malone, 19, became the youngest professional dancer for Celebrity Cruises she called in to see old friends at the dance school where she started dancing aged two.

Pauline Cook, from the Pauline Cook School of Dancing, said everyone at her former school was delighted.

Kelly, granddaughter of local cabaret artist Hughie Malone, will cruise the Caribbean on ocean liner The Zenith in her first job after attending the renowned Studio La Pointe school in Leeds.