Anton Du Beke says the best thing about being famous is the happiness it brings to his mum after her troubled marriage to his dad.
The Strictly star, 54, added his mother bleached her greying hair when she got divorced and “turned into a hardly recognisable rock chick”.
Anton, who previously told how his drunken father often beat him with a belt, said: “It’s sort of obvious that that’s not OK... the aggression and the alcohol.
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