Strictly newcomer Clara Amfo will be dad dancing with a difference when she takes to the famous ballroom floor next month. The Radio 1 DJ will be aiming to win in memory of the father whose sudden death turned her world upside down.
Clara, 36, describe’s micro-biologist Emmanuel’s heart attack five years ago as “the worst day of my life”. She was in Paris about to do a half marathon when she had a dreadful feeling something terrible was about to happen. “That morning I felt compelled to call him.
I then looked at my phone and saw all these missed calls from my sister,” she said. “In that moment I thought, ‘I bet my dad has died’.
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