Motsi Mabuse has shared her relief after her in-laws managed to escape the conflict in the Ukraine. The Strictly judge, 40, is married to Ukrainian dancer Evgenij Voznyuk and previously revealed her terror as his parents were stranded in the country.
The have now got out and are living with Motsi and Evgenij, and the TV star said on This Morning that she thinks the arrangement will be permanent. "The house is gone," she told hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby."They live with us now, we are thinking forever."Motsi - who splits her time between the UK and Germany - went on: "It affects us all when you see these pictures. "If you are a human being and you see things happening to people it affects you, but when it affected my husband so much… I didn't think it would affect me so much."The dancer has done her bit to help, selling candles and collecting food.She said her husband even collected some people from the border.Motsi said she felt it was important to put her platform to good use."We have got social media and I think people are tired of seeing us eating pizza and sushi and content like that," she pointed out."It breaks my heart… I can literally cry," she went on.Evgenij is from the city of Kharkiv and Motsi recently said she feared she would never get to see it.She tweeted: “2020 we booked our flights to spend Easter in Kharkiv and return a day before my birthday, because of lockdown we cancelled the trip. "2021 we were still on lockdown! "2022 seems I will never see the town my husband was born.
He wanted to show me his motherland! #Kharkiv. "This Morning airs weekdays at 10am on ITV.For more of the latest showbiz news from Daily Star, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here..
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