Sunday, August 7, 2011

Back to the dance floor for Salsa granny Paddy Jones


Black Country Salsa granny Paddy Jones is back in business after her partner Nicko Espinsosa went back to her.

She says the temperamental Spaniard – who had stormed out of town telling her he would never work with her again earlier this year – has decided it was worth his while to stay on her good side.

So the 77-year-old slipped back into her dancing shoes and the pair have already been back on TV.

“I think he realised it was worth his while to keep in touch with me,” said the grandmother-of-seven from Stourbridge, who now lives in Spain.

Paddy, who used to run Paddy’s Fabrics in Coventry Street, Stourbridge, moved to Spain with her husband David in 2001, and starting dancing as a way to cope when he died shortly afterwards.

She shot to fame in the Spanish version of Britain’s Got Talent, called Tu Si Que Vales, in 2009, and has been showing off her dancing skills around the globe ever since.

The fall-out with Nicko, 40 years her junior, came after the pair were kicked off Argentinian talent contest Showmatch. Paddy had been visiting family in England and her replacement on the show irritated judges to the extent that they voted her off.

Source expressandstar


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