Anton Du Beke has revealed he was attacked and stabbed by his father over Christmas as a child. It's the first time the Strictly star has bravely spoken out about the incident.
judge, 57, said the revelations will likely come as a shock to his friends and family as it is the first time he has spoken about the incident.mother and Hungarian father, the dancer lived on a council estate in Sevenoaks, and discovered his flair for dancing after picking his sister up from the local studio.
‘You’ve got an alcoholic father and a situation where if you’re in the house drinking then you end up with the fights and stuff.‘You’d move room to get away from all of it and then he follows you in and the next thing you know the violence starts and then it came to a head one evening, I ended up in hospital for three days.
‘I remember walking out of the house to walk up to the hospital holding my leg and a police car drove past and I waved them down and I said “he’s in there with a knife”.’ At the time, the aspiring dancer changed his name ‘from Tony Beke, who grew up on a council estate’ to ‘Anton Du Beke, The Show Man.’
Kate, who took over from Piers Morgan as the host of Life Stories this year, said she knew Anton is ‘larger than life’ but is also a ‘very private’ man after her time dancing with him on Strictly Come Dancing in 2007.
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