Anton Du Beke: Strictly judge reveals he was stabbed by his father as a child

Strictly Come Dancing justice Anton Du Beke has revealed helium was stabbed by his begetter arsenic a child.

The 57-year-old said his begetter stabbed him successful the limb and tummy during a Boxing Day altercation astatine the household location successful Kent.

Du Beke told Kate Garraway's Life Stories helium spent 3 days successful infirmary arsenic a effect of the attack.

He said his begetter Antal had "taken a turn" against Du Beke arsenic alcoholism gripped him.

Recalling the incident, Du Beke said: "I got stabbed successful the limb and successful the tummy due to the fact that of a combat connected Boxing Day and it was an idiotic situation.

"I retrieve walking retired of the location to locomotion up to the infirmary holding my limb and a constabulary car drove past and I waved them down and I said 'he's successful determination with a knife'.

"Anyway, they carted him disconnected and I ended up successful infirmary for 3 oregon 4 days. My lone interest was getting backmost into the workplace and dancing and the embarrassment of it."

The TV judge, who was antecedently a nonrecreational dancer connected the BBC One show, said the revelations volition apt travel arsenic a daze to his friends and household arsenic it is the archetypal clip helium has spoken astir the puerility incident.

Born to a Spanish parent and Hungarian father, Du Beke lived connected a assembly property successful Sevenoaks, and discovered a passionateness for dancing aft picking his sister up from the section studio.

He explained his parent encouraged his caller hobby, but the narration with his father, who was battling issues with alcohol, became strained.

Du Beke said: "The alcoholism and the violence... [it was] towards me, due to the fact that I was a boy, a young antheral I suppose.

"You've got an alcoholic begetter and a concern wherever if you're successful the house, [he's] drinking past you extremity up with the fights and stuff.

"You'd determination country to get distant from each of it and past helium follows you successful and the adjacent happening you cognize the unit starts and past it came to a caput 1 evening, I ended up successful infirmary for 3 days."

Du Beke said helium was definite his household and friends did not cognize astir the onslaught due to the fact that helium ne'er saw immoderate summation from speaking astir his ordeal, telling Garraway: "I'm a guardant looker... I don't similar to look back, I similar to look forward."

He said helium told radical helium had "pulled a hamstring" erstwhile asked astir his limb wounded due to the fact that helium was embarrassed.

"I can't truly judge I'm talking to you astir this. I should've glossed implicit this," Du Beke commented to Garraway. "Even the thought of that [the attack] being a happening benignant of annoys maine arsenic well."

Garraway explained Du Beke's begetter was cleared successful tribunal of wounding his lad and erstwhile helium died, Du Beke did not be his funeral.

"Everything was astir moving forwards, I felt atrocious for my mum, this was her husband, she's moving 2 jobs and helium chose to portion and beryllium violent, it's conscionable beingness and you transportation on," helium said.

At the time, the aspiring dancer changed his sanction "from Tony Beke, who grew up connected a assembly estate" to "Anton Du Beke, The Show Man".

He said: "I wanted a caller commencement and a caller opening and I wanted to permission what went before, behind, and past determination connected with the remainder of my life, I conscionable wanted to beryllium me."

Du Beke added his information to execute occurrence was not due to the fact that of his father.

"I hatred woe is me," helium said. "I ne'er sought immoderate consciousness of confirmation oregon encouragement from him and I ne'er did thing I did due to the fact that of him. My information to bash what I did was not due to the fact that of that."

Du Beke was the longest-serving nonrecreational dancer connected Strictly until helium took implicit from departing justice Bruno Tonioli permanently successful 2021.

His personage partners implicit the years person included erstwhile location caput Jacqui Smith, soap prima Emma Barton and person Ann Widdecombe.

TV presenter Garraway took implicit from Piers Morgan arsenic the big of ITV's Life Stories bid this year.

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