Anton du Beke was stabbed by father as a child
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The Strictly Come Dancing judge revealed the incident publicly for the first time on Kate Garraway's Life Stories as he discussed growing up on a council estate in Sevenoaks, Kent with a Spanish mother and Hungarian father. The 57-year-old admitted his alcoholic dad "took a turn" against him and directed "the violence" in his direction and this eventually led to him being hospitalised one Boxing Day. "You'd move room to get away from all of it and then he follows you in and the next thing you know the violence starts…”