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Darcey Bussell: 'I'll be happy to be critical as a Strictly judge'

Source: The Guardian

Nov 08, 2009

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For two decades Darcey Bussell was Britain's greatest ballerina. So what's it going to be like for the Strictly Come Dancing contestants when she starts judging on the show next month? Here, she talks about her new life in Sydney, being an eco mum and the joy of bringing dance to the masses

I do a double-take when Darcey Bussell walks in. I was expecting the porcelain skin and sharp black bob which Britain's most feted ballerina sported in her later years, but her hair is now strawberry blonde and her face sun-kissed. It's been two years since Bussell gave up the limelight for a quiet life as a housewife in Australia. "I have relaxed," she says when we meet in Sydney. "My husband never thought it was possible. In London I would always get asked to do things, but here I can just be a mum – though I still can't say no to work."

The latest project Bussell failed to turn down is Strictly Come Dancing. She'll appear as a guest judge alongside the regular panel on the final three programmes of this year's series. She came to London to attend the show's first rounds

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