Quotes from Motsi Mabuse

Growing up in a system that tells you just because of your skin colour you are not good enough - you learn at a very young age to toughen up.

I've danced before, so I know how it feels to stand in front of judges and be critiqued.

One of the main points everywhere in my life is fairness. Coming from South Africa and being treated unfairly all your life because of your skin colour, that's been a huge point.

I missed my youth because I was dancing, I didn't do all the crazy stuff. I didn't have boyfriends or anything - the first man I met I married!

I just want my daughter to grow up in a society where she feels accepted being South African, German and Ukrainian.

My daughter thinks that only her mum is on the television. Every time she sees the screen anywhere she's like mummy! Because we don't let her watch the TV.

I've got a big mummy heart.

In my normal life I don't walk around with make-up. I'm just a mum at a dance school.

There's no stopping same-sex dancing couples. I don't understand how people being happy can affect others so much - just let them be.

Blackpool is absolutely huge in Strictly but when you come from South Africa and you have your first impressions and you arrive in Blackpool, well it's different. It's different let's put it that way. But what I'll also say, if you walk into the ballroom it's absolutely spectacular.

I never see Oti! I see her on the dance floor, I see her shortly at the after party but that's it. In the week she's doing her 'Strictly' zoom and I hardly ever see her.

I am absolutely overjoyed to be joining 'Strictly.' I have so much respect for the other judges and hope to add my own bit of sparkle to the show.

The world of dance is where I felt accepted as a human being.

You'll always have someone attacking you in some way. But it's weird from someone who's never met you.

To watch people dancing is the most entertaining thing on the planet and, as they take in more alcohol, the better it gets!

I always say to my friends and my family, 'Let us live in a space that if we never see each other again we don't have bad energy there.'