The Strictly judge reveals he spent three days in hospital following the attack one Boxing Day.
Entertainment reporterThe 57-year-old said his father stabbed him in the leg and stomach during a Boxing Day altercation at the family home in Kent.He said his father Antal had "taken a turn" against Du Beke as alcoholism gripped him.
"Anyway, they carted him off and I ended up in hospital for three or four days. My only concern was getting back into the studio and dancing and the embarrassment of it." He explained his mother encouraged his new hobby, but the relationship with his father, who was battling issues with alcohol, became strained.
"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 and then it came to a head one evening, I ended up in hospital for three days." "I can't really believe I'm talking to you about this. I should've glossed over this," Du Beke commented to Garraway. "Even the thought of that [the attack] being a thing sort of annoys me as well."Before becoming a Strictly judge, his celebrity dance partners included former MP Ann Widdecombe
At the time, the aspiring dancer changed his name "from Tony Beke, who grew up on a council estate" to "Anton Du Beke, The Show Man".
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