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DID YOU KNOW? Oti Mabuse

As she settles into her new role on the judging panel of Dancing On Ice (6pm, ITV), we reveal a few things you might not know about the dancer and two-times Strictly winner…

Otlile Mabuse was born in 1990 in Pretoria, A chance encounter with a BBC staffer who South Africa. She started taking dance needed help with his German led to her being lessons when she was four, but her headhunted for Strictly. She moved to parents wanted her to focus on her London in 2015 when she joined the show, academic studies as well – she loved and lived in a bedsit while working. mathematics and physics, and trained as a civil engineer. She revealed that her favourite

partner on the show has been

After working as an engineer – Bill Bailey, the winner in 2020, lasting six months in the job – she left and of all the professionals, she is

South Africa in 2012 to pursue a dance particularly close to Karen Hauer. career in Germany. Her elder sister,

Strictly Come Dancing judge Motsi, had Having been on panels for The moved there in 1999, becoming first a Greatest Dancer (the acts she mentored dancer (in 2007) and then a judge on Let’s won both series) and The Masked Dancer, Dance, the German version of Strictly. Oti Oti will be hosting the primetime musical met Marius Iepure there, and both worked dating show Romeo&duet , which on Let’s Dance; the pair married in 2014. will launch on ITV later this year.

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