Daily Mirror - 24.07.2019

mirror.co.uk WEDNESDAY 24.07.2019 DAILY MIRROR^25

DM1ST

During WW2

Britain’s

factories mass

produced

spitfires &

bombers,

fighters and

other aircrafts.

DID YOU

KNOW?

WAR FACTORIES

Tonight, 9pm

YESTERDAY

Catch up on UKTV Play

PROMOTED CONTENT

20,000

130,000

TRIAL Louise Porton

Murder trial

mum tells of

sex act offer

A MUM accused of killing
her two children offered to
perform sex acts for cash
while one daughter was in
hospital, a court heard.
Louise Porton allegedly
murdered Lexi Draper,
three, and 17-month-old
Scarlett Vaughan because
“they got in the way” of
her lifestyle.
The 23-year-old part-
time model admitted
agreeing to send explicit
pictures to a photographer
from a hospital toilet in
exchange for cash.
She also admitted
offering to perform sex
acts during a photoshoot.
Porton, of Rugby, Warks,
told Birmingham crown
court that she did it
because she “hadn’t been
paid at the time from
Universal Credit”.
She denies murder. The
trial continues.

BY MARTIN FRICKER

KILLED Barry Carmon

Crash death

chain ‘keeps

my son near’

THE mother of a man
killed in a head-on crash
with a van has been left
with nothing but his
cherished neck chain.
Barry Carmon, 30, of
Belford, Northumberland,
died almost instantly in
the April 2017 collision.
His mother Carol, who is
plagued by nightmares,
told Newcastle crown
court that she carries the
chain so she “always has a
part of Barry with me”.
Matthew Crook, 27, of
Blyth, admitted causing
death by careless driving.
He drove his van the
wrong way along the A1
near Newton-on-the-Moor
after leaving a pub.
Handing him a nine-
month suspended
sentence, Judge Penny
Moreland said: “Your care-
lessness robbed a family of
their son and father.”

BY JEREMY ARMSTRONG

We were

the wow

girls.. the

showgirls

EXCLUSIVE

BY MARK JEFFERIES

Showbiz Editor

Motsi and her sisters did not let

apartheid wreck their ambitions

The biggest

diva of all of

us was Otlile,

she had the

greatest

confidence

MOTSI MABUSE

ON LIFE WITH HER SISTERS

PADDLE

GIRL Motsi

as TV judge

MOTSI Mabuse had a humble start – but true

grit helped her rise from segregated South

Africa to international dance champion.

The 38-year-old is replacing Dame Darcey

Bussell as a judge on the BBC’s Strictly Come

Dancing, but the road to the top has not been easy

for Motsi – older sister of Strictly pro Oti.

She was born into a poor family in Kraalhoek,

north-west South Africa, and sister Phemelo and

Oti – full name Otlile – soon followed. Despite

their poverty, the sisters just loved to dance.

Mum-of-one Motsi, who

became a star on Germany’s

Let’s Dance show, said: “We

were the wow girls, the show-

girls. All three. And the biggest

diva of all of us – that was

Otlile. She has the greatest

confidence.”

Her 2015 book, Chili in the

Blood, reveals the strain of

living under apartheid, with

Motsi saying: “Everyone was in

a kind of fighting mood.”

She initially followed in her

father’s footsteps and trained

to become a lawyer but Motsi, who speaks eight

languages, quit to train as a professional dancer.

After moving to Frankfurt, she married her

German dance partner Timo Kulczak and the pair

went on to become Latin dance champions before

splitting in 2014.

But even during her dancing days, Motsi battled

with her weight. The TV star, who is now married

to Ukrainian dancer Evgenij Voznyu, told how in

Germany, people would sometimes stop her in the

street to say: “You are not as fat as you appear on

TV.” But Motsi didn’t let it get to her.

“When it comes to weight, it’s the same with

fashion: the main thing is to feel good,” she said.

Motsi will join Shirley Ballas, Bruno Tonioli and

Craig Revel Horwood on Strictly Come Dancing

from September.

[email protected]

@mirrorjeffers

Phemelo, Oti and Motsi on TV

SISTER ACT

Motsi is a hit

on German TV

STAR

TURN