I’m A Celeb’s Oti Mabuse addresses ‘disagreements’ with sister Motsi over Strictly

I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! star Oti Mabuse has opened up about her "disagreements" with sister Motsi over Strictly Come Dancing.

Oti, 34, is currently competing in the ITV reality show in the hopes of being crowned Queen of the Jungle. However, before flying out to Australia, the star made her name as a contestant on BBC's Strictly Come Dancing before joining rival show Dancing on Ice.

After studying civil engineering at university, Oti followed in the dancing footsteps of her sister Motsi, 43, who is a professional ballroom dancer.

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Motsi, who made her name in the German dance competition Let's Dance, joined Strictly as a judge in 2019, replacing Darcey Bussell, and is currently appearing in the show's 20th year.

Speaking on Babs Michel's BBC Radio Essex show earlier this month, Oti revealed that she is a still a fan of Strictly Come Dancing but admitted that she and her sister don't always see eye to eye.

Asked whether she still watches her sister on a Saturday night, Oti said: "Well, usually I'm in my dance studio until it happens and then I'll watch it on Catch Up.

"Motsi stays with me during Strictly but I'll watch it on iPlayer and then when she comes home we'll sit down and have a debrief and discuss it. I'll be like 'yeah I agreed with Craig there or I didn't agree with you there or I did agree with you, you were right'.

"We talk about the show because we love the show, it's a big part of our lives. I still coreograph on it, I was doing It Takes Two the other day so it really is a big part of our whole family."

Motsi and Oti also have another sister, the middle child, Phemelo, who remains in South Africa and works as a mechanical engineer. She too has won several ballroom and Latin titles.

However, the sisters have suffered family heartache as their half brother Neo took his own life aged just 18 while they were growing up in the South African township of Mabopane.

Speaking about the tragedy previously, Motsi said: “He killed himself with a poison. And because the people of Africa are very religious and superstitious, something bad arose in our neighbourhood. With the suicide of Neo, our family was seen as one where there was a negative energy.

“Because of this rumour, no one came to us any more, because it was feared that the bad energy applied to the visitor.”

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