Born in Glasgow, she married Sandesh Gulhane and took a post at a medical partnership but left after burning out and became a locum general practitioner (GP).

She has presented the BBC Scotland series Laid Bare, appeared on Morning Live and The Weakest Link, and written a Glasgow Times medical column and children's book.

Punam Krishan was born 28 May 1983[1] in Glasgow, and grew up in a small tenement flat with her younger sister and extended family.

[2] She told Susan Swarbrick of The Herald in July 2019 that education was important to her family, with her parents taking the view that she was either going to become a "doctor, lawyer, accountant, or a failure",[3] and described herself in January 2019 as "raised in equal parts on curry and Irn-Bru".

[22] In August 2024, she was announced as a contestant on the twenty-second series of Strictly Come Dancing,[23] where she and Gorka Márquez comprised one of fifteen pairs that year.