Oti Mabuse: “I stood in the shower with my clothes on and cried”

Oti Mabuse
“I stood in the shower with my clothes on and cried”

Dance star Otlile “Oti” Mabuse (33) has revealed why she left the British TV show “Strictly Come Dancing”. Last year, Motsi Mabuse’s (42) younger sister announced that she was leaving the popular BBC show, known here as “Let’s Dance”. The 33-year-old has been a professional dancer since 2015 and won the show twice: in 2019 and 2020 together with actor Kevin Fletcher (39) and comedian Bill Bailey (58) respectively.

“So heavy and overwhelming”

On the “All Change” podcast According to the Daily Mail, Oti Mabuse spoke about the challenges of the show. Her husband Marius Lepure (41), with whom she has been married since 2014, was obviously a great support to her. “Luckily, my husband, as always, was a great guy who saw the dark days, the days when I stand in the shower with my clothes on and cry because it’s so hard and overwhelming,” she said.

“He’s seen me not eating, he’s seen me overeating, he’s seen me struggling with not being able to get the best out of someone. He’s seen me with interesting ones had to do with personalities.”

Oti Mabuse wanted to devote himself to other things

She went on to explain about her husband: “So he’s the person who saw behind the scenes that I was at the point where I was like, ‘I think I’m done.'” Mabuse also said, according to Daily Mail” spoke about the reaction on the podcast: “I came from the biggest show on television. Every single person on this planet, in this country, loves ‘Strictly’. People are obsessed,” said the dancer, who performed in 2015 and 2016 also took part in the German version “Let’s Dance”. Many people asked her in disbelief why she wanted to quit now that she was at the peak of her career.

However, Oti Mabuse continued, her decision was driven by her desire to take on other projects that she was passionate about. The dancer was then seen on British TV, among other things, in the “The Masked Dancer” guessing team and as a judge on “Dancing on Ice”. Mabuse also presents her own breakfast show on ITV called “Oti Mabuse’s Breakfast Show”.

Oti Mabuse becomes a mother

Oti Mabuse and her husband Marius Iepure announced in August on Instagram also that they are becoming parents for the first time. Alongside several couple photos in which the dancer’s baby bump is clearly visible in the pink jumpsuit, the couple wrote: “We finally feel ready and excited to share our wonderful news. It’s new to us, scarier than swimming with sharks , jumping off cliffs or even swinging from bridges, but it’s the best news we could ever ask for.”

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