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Debbie McGee is known for her role as an assistant to husband and magician Paul Daniels. Debbie and Paul were happily married for nearly 30 years, until Paul’s tragic death at the age of 77 in 2016. During an interview last year, Debbie, 60, revealed her first experience of love.
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And, at one point, Debbie thought she would even marry them.
Debbie McGee appeared as a guest alongside comedian Rufus Hound during the BBC Radio 4 show My Teenage Diary last year.
And during the episode, Debbie reminisced about her teenage years while she read out some diary entries from her younger days.
Reading out one passage, Debbie warned listeners: “Now this is very much a teenage point this.”
She read the passage aloud: “Matt hasn’t phoned all week. Longest ever he has left it.
“Made myself focus on school, got all my stuff out for tomorrow.”
At a later date, it appears the situation got better, with Debbie laughing at her younger self.
She wrote: “So happy Matt phoned. Meeting on Saturday night.”
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When Rufus quizzed her on the identity of the mystery man, Debbie replied: “Matt was my childhood sweetheart”.
She added: “He moved into my road when I was seven or eight, and he was the person I really thought I was going to marry, but it didn’t work out.”
The dancing star jokingly quipped: “Probably because he didn’t ring me regularly enough!”
Debbie would later go on to find the love of her life with magician Paul Daniels.
When Debbie appeared on Good Morning Britain earlier this year, she was asked whether she thought she would find love again.
Debbie replied: “I do think I will in the future but I’m not worried if I don’t… it has to be with the right person.”