STRICTLY star Anton Du Beke has opened up about his abusive dad - saying he beat him with a belt. The 54-year-old pro, who returns to screens tonight, added that he "didn’t care" when Antal, who was Hungarian, died in 2001.
Speaking to The Times, he explained: "He was the hard, eastern European type. Heavy drinker, heavy smoker. "It was a different time and you'd have the belt taken to you and stuff like that. "He'd just fly off the handle and he was always slightly aggressive anyway." Anton explained that his dad would never have watched him on Strictly because he was always too drunk.
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