Oti Mabuse ‘cried for hours’ after quitting Strictly

OHMYGOSSIP — Oti Mabuse “cried for hours” when she quit ‘Strictly Come Dancing’.
The 31-year-old dancer – who has won the show with Kelvin Fletcher in 2019 and Bill Bailey in 2020 – announced last month that she was leaving the BBC Latin and ballroom contest but she actually broke the news to producers last year, ahead of the most recent season.
She said: “We cried for hours. I’m still crying now.”
Oti insisted now is the “right time” for her to leave the show because she wanted to go while she was still happy and performing well.
She told You magazine: “When I came to Britain I said to myself, ‘My dream is to win ‘Strictly.’ And I have, and it was such an amazing seven years, but I’ve done what I needed to do.
“I feel so emotional. I lived my best life on that show and it gave me the career I have now, but you need to know when it’s the right time to get off that wave and try new things.
“I didn’t want to hold on and get to the point where I wasn’t happy any more. I left when I was at the peak, in terms of working on the show. It feels like I’m leaving family behind – even the backstage team, the people viewers don’t get to see – but when you know it’s time to go, you know.”
Although the news of Oti’s departure from the show was concealed from the public and even the programme’s crew, her fellow dancers were aware and she was thankful she got to say an emotional “goodbye” to them after the programme’s final.
She said: “Nobody knows this, but in the final everyone came round me at the end and we were all hugging and saying goodbye.
“After they announced Rose and Giovanni as winners I said goodbye to them, then everyone came around me: Katya, Aljaz, Karen [fellow professionals]… and it just started building, all the celebs then the whole cast just hugged each other to say goodbye. And it was me saying goodbye to all of them.”

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