Anton Du Beke promises to help Michelle Heaton bag a spot on Strictly 2017 in cosy toilet chat
MICHELLE Heaton will be showing off her fancy footwork on the Strictly Come Dancing floor next year - if Anton Du Beke has anything to do with it.
The Sun Online overheard the pair talking in the toilets at a charity event after Michelle, 37, collared the 50-year-old pro dancer and pleaded with him to help her have a chance at winning the Glitter Ball trophy.
Revealing that she’s had many failed attempts at getting on the show, Michelle begged: “Please Anton, I've been trying for years.”
To which Anton smiled and promised Michelle that he would “put in a word.”
A spokesman for Strictly remained tight-lipped, telling The Sun Online: "We never comment on speculation surrounding potential future contestants."
Anton can put his feet up now that he Lesley Joseph were kicked off of Strictly last weekend after a tough Dance Off against model Daisy Lowe and Aljaž Škorjanec, who have previously topped the leaderboard.
Brave Michelle who rose to fame in Liberty X has had a tough year, after she revealed that she’s hit early menopause after undergoing a double mastectomy and a hysterectomy — and that she expects it to last for a decade.
The mum of two, 37, was diagnosed with the BRCA2 cancer gene when she was 33, meaning she had an 85 per cent chance of developing breast cancer.
The gene is hereditary, and both her grandmother and great-grandmother had died of the disease in their 30s.
The mum to baby girl Faith with her businessman husband Hugh Hanley, ex-Liberty X star Michelle opted to have both breasts removed in 2012.
In 2014, after the birth of son Aaron, she also decided to get a hysterectomy — with surgeons removing her womb, cervix, ovaries and fallopian tubes.
Michelle told Reveal magazine of her decision: “I couldn’t risk my children being without a mum.”
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As a result of the surgeries, however, Michelle won’t be able to have any more children, and she’s already undergoing menopause, which hits the average UK woman at age 51.
She said: “I’ll be going through menopause until my body is at a natural age where I would have gone through it.
“It’s really tough knowing I’ve still got such a long road ahead. Emotionally, there are good days and bad days. I have hormone replacement injections every six months.”
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